[Closed] Cool looking machines

That's ace Tracker- loving the reversing

CZ, it's an [url= http://avtoros.info/en/all-terrain_vehicle/shaman ]Avtoros.[/url]

Found it whilst looking at Russian Trucks.

Anyone got a spare 7 and a half grand?
[url= http://www.russianmilitary.co.uk/details.php?headers=land&sub_headers=TRUCKS&id=222 ]This GAZ66 Expedition [/url]looks like a bargain....
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Tracker - you win the thread, although i understand she ought to be properly known as The [b]Mighty[/b] River Don Engine. The biggest engine in Europe.
There were four of these. One is in Japan, the other in the States (I think) - unbelievably perhaps the fourth is 'missing'. How do you lose something that size?
the reversing is indeed the clever bit - the reversing mechanism is operated without closing the throttle.

@CZ: That is a gorgeous amphibious. Is that a C-47 in the background? The RCAF was still using those in the 1980s. My house growing up was close to the Air Force base, and they flew over all the time. I was taught to admire them.

This is pretty impressive, it must be said:

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It was posted on a [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/coolest-service-vehicles ]similar thread to this one[/url], more than a year ago, by jock_muttley.

twicewithchips - Member

unbelievably perhaps the fourth is 'missing'. How do you lose something that size?

Charlie Broomfield's fitting it into a Rover SD-1, it's been in his garage ever since

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rw smith series 2 movement

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In another "big engineering" style, the Falkirk Wheel was mesmerising when I got up there to see it. Amazingly simple engineering on a huge scale, and well, it didn't need fins, or hoops over the top canal but it got them, because such things are cool!
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77cc model aeroengine

twicewithchips- it's the idea that they made a few, I would have assumed that it would be utterly custom! Now I want to go the the museum and find the serial number 🙂

@Tracker:

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also, @northwind - you owe me a keyboard, this one is full of tea.

The fact that this was designed in the sixties blows my mind

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Tracker +1
That's brought back some memories. As a kid I used to play in a brass band in Sheffield. Always had a gig around bonfire night at Kelham Island, and we played in the hall with the Don Engine. I have a very vivid recollection of the smell of the thing. We used to have to stop playing every half-hour or so when they did the demonstration. Scared the bejeesus out of me, but looking at it now it's wonderful.

I'd like one of these in the study.
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From my childhood, watching these go past occasionally on the West Coast main line...

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These days, with my two boys, it's these...

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Pocket-sized:

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Not pocket-sized:

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Ken's Box

i did some contract work for these guys (ABB robotics) back in the 1990's

fat beats and smoke rings

Caspian sea monster;
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Probably a good idea the cold war ended when it did.

if i ever win the lottery I could waste it all building a full size version of this....

Good one kiwijohn I was going to say the Caspian Sea monster. [img] http://pics.livejournal.com/igor113/pic/007t4kb1 [/img]

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That steam orrery is lovely, not quite as much a work of art as the Fulton one in the Kelvingrove, though:

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[url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/470024978/ ]Orrery - Uranus[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

I haven't worked out why it's got two moons around the Earth:

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[url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/470025400/ ]Orrery - Earth[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Amazing to watch:

Tupolev Tu-95.

Look at this beauty still flying around checking out generations of fighter jets that gone past them after so many years.

" ... First flown in 1952, the Tu-95 entered service with the Soviet Union in 1956 and is expected to serve the Russian Air Force until at least 2040..." [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95 ]Ya, from Wiki.[/url]

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Also this good looking low cost Saab JAS 39 Gripen for defensive work. Very small but good IMO. Could easily defend against any of those more expensive fighters like SU-27, Euro Fighters, F-35 (this is a clumsy plane not for dog fight), F-15, F-18, F-16, Dassault Rafale and the likes ...

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awesome mogrim

The Seabreacher.

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