car/plane/boat/etc music vids.. some of your favorites

rsv1cox wrote:I have been hijacked, shanghaied, puteth under.  

GallopingGhostler wrote:

rsv1cox wrote:I have been hijacked, shanghaied, puteth under.  

AFAIK, the Europeans overall take better care of their engines. For Americans overall, the designs needed to be bullet-proof, AKA Russian-like.

balogh wrote:

GallopingGhostler wrote:

rsv1cox wrote:I have been hijacked, shanghaied, puteth under.  

AFAIK, the Europeans overall take better care of their engines. For Americans overall, the designs needed to be bullet-proof, AKA Russian-like.

In my hands on experience earned  behind the Iron Curtain,  Russian cars were never bulletproof...the body of Russian cars got rotten by rust after a few winters with salted roads...the engines seldom made it beyond 100k km-s without major repair..Russian goods being sturdy, robust and indestructable are just some of the false myths..they are worth a bucket of shoot, believe me...vodka, caviar then AK 47, this is generally all their consumer goods worth mentioning..Tupolev airplanes that I worked on as a young engineer, and T54 and T72 tanks I manned in the army are each a piece of industrial catastrophy..I could continue mentioning all Russian goods that we were compelled to live with in the "planned economy" of COMECON countries back in the 60's throught the late 80's when the Curtain fell down..

balogh wrote:

GallopingGhostler wrote:For Americans overall, the designs needed to be bullet-proof, AKA Russian-like.

In my hands on experience earned  behind the Iron Curtain,  Russian cars were never bulletproof...the body of Russian cars got rotten by rust after a few winters with salted roads...the engines seldom made it beyond 100k km-s without major repair..Russian goods being sturdy, robust and indestructable are just some of the false myths..they are worth a bucket of shoot, believe me...vodka, caviar then AK 47, this is generally all their consumer goods worth mentioning..Tupolev airplanes that I worked on as a young engineer, and T54 and T72 tanks I manned in the army are each a piece of industrial catastrophy..I could continue mentioning all Russian goods that we were compelled to live with in the "planned economy" of COMECON countries back in the 60's throught the late 80's when the Curtain fell down..and I just do not see it change since then..they still do not have a decent automobile made by themselves...the Germans gave them a BMW motorcycle production line in compensation of the WWII damages, and the IZH motorcycle they then made on it was just another scrap...as long as the motivation for people to produce quality is missing, and the Russian economy and morale has not really developed since the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, one cannot expect quality goods as a result. Sorry for hijacking the original topic..

roddie wrote:This fascinates me Andrus! Russia built a huge experimental Marine-based ground-effect vehicle code-name "Ekranoplan". It was a floating platform having a distinct "hull".. but also an aircraft type of tail-plane. There were stub-wings protruding from where conventional aircraft wings would, from a conventional fuselage. An array of powerful jet-turbines combined with vectored-thrust is how it operated from static. When throttling-up to cruise-speed, it would rise-up on a cushion of air (ground-effect) and be completely free of hydro-dynamic drag.

The YouTube video link(s) below are of the Russian Ekranoplan story.



I see a future for this technology.. now that it's 50+ years later. If you (all who read this..) watch the vid... and think like a modeller.. you'll know what I mean.

vanhoe on Mar 07, 2012 wrote:

fredvon4 wrote:Reagan had jokes



First joke is relative to Andras observation, and quite funny in a morbid way.