Alternate Vehicle Designs
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That has Desktop so written all over it (the Steam Flying Boat)
Some futuristic car designs from the 1950s and 1960s :
Random jet-powered thingy concept by Ford from the 1950s
The Ford Leva - another attempt at a jet-powered hovercar (yawn)
The Atmos - another proud bubble-glass abomination of the Nuclear Age
General Motors Firebird
The Gyron
Da da da da da da da da da da da da... da Lincoln Futura !
Random jet-powered thingy concept by Ford from the 1950s
The Ford Leva - another attempt at a jet-powered hovercar (yawn)
The Atmos - another proud bubble-glass abomination of the Nuclear Age
General Motors Firebird
The Gyron
Da da da da da da da da da da da da... da Lincoln Futura !
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Hendryk
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I did a double take when I saw that one, it's obviously where Franquin got the idea for Spirou and Fantasio's car the Turbo 2. I always thought he'd made it up.
The Atmos - another proud bubble-glass abomination of the Nuclear Age
I forgot to add a picture of Pilcher's triplane back when I made this post. So, here it is, as re-imagined by the BBC programme Horizon back in December 2003 :
It's certainly more feeble and underpowered than the Wright Flyer, but could have worked fine if it wasn't for Pilcher's premature death.
It's more of a motor-propelled hang glider though, which isn't surprising when compared to Pilcher's previous designs - he was basically the Scottish analogue of Otto Lillenthal or Octave Chanute.
From Tales of Future Past :
In the 1940s the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company ran an impressive series of advertisements portraying the glorious postwar world of the latter 20th century. It was a future in which, by strange coincidence, aluminium, brass and other light alloys would play a key role.
Luckily, light alloys lend themselves to some very dramatic shapes and the directors of Bohn had the good sense to let the advertising firm take the bit in their teeth and run with it. I don't know how effective the campaign was in the end, but it certainly afforded us some of the finest examples of Future Past around.
No offence - but this somewhat fades in comparison with the Millau viaduct.
Turbo-train
Monorail bullet-trains
Road-building vehicle
A giant snowplow !
A handsome retro-futuristic car
A truely pimped-out megatruck/gigalorry
And a tanker truck behemoth...
A harvester (or what the hell is it supposed to be)...
A fire truck (the mother was obviously a stretch-limo)
Eat your heart out, Queen Mary II !
An airport...
...and an obligatory flying wing to go with it...
Or why not just go for a trip into low Earth orbit aboard this fabulous art déco spaceplane ?
In the 1940s the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company ran an impressive series of advertisements portraying the glorious postwar world of the latter 20th century. It was a future in which, by strange coincidence, aluminium, brass and other light alloys would play a key role.
Luckily, light alloys lend themselves to some very dramatic shapes and the directors of Bohn had the good sense to let the advertising firm take the bit in their teeth and run with it. I don't know how effective the campaign was in the end, but it certainly afforded us some of the finest examples of Future Past around.
No offence - but this somewhat fades in comparison with the Millau viaduct.
Turbo-train
Monorail bullet-trains
Road-building vehicle
A giant snowplow !
A handsome retro-futuristic car
A truely pimped-out megatruck/gigalorry
And a tanker truck behemoth...
A harvester (or what the hell is it supposed to be)...
A fire truck (the mother was obviously a stretch-limo
)
Eat your heart out, Queen Mary II !
An airport...
...and an obligatory flying wing to go with it...
Or why not just go for a trip into low Earth orbit aboard this fabulous art déco spaceplane ?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV7K2BHNMoc&feature=channel
The Lockheed L-2000 and the Boeing SST 2700-200 supersonic airliners (cancelled in the early 1970s after being unable to compete with conventional airliners and it European rival, the Concorde).
The Lockheed L-2000 and the Boeing SST 2700-200 supersonic airliners (cancelled in the early 1970s after being unable to compete with conventional airliners and it European rival, the Concorde).
I WANT THAT.From Tales of Future Past :Or why not just go for a trip into low Earth orbit aboard this fabulous art déco spaceplane ?
OK, I hate to necro threads, but I don't want to start the same topic all over again (there are too many similar threads on this discussion board already), so here goes :
The interesting 1960s British concept of the Fairey Jet Gyrodyne.
And its far more known cousin, the unique Fairey Rotodyne. They had big plans for it on the regional civilian transport market, but none of them came to fruition and only a single prototype was built and flown.
The interesting 1960s British concept of the Fairey Jet Gyrodyne.
And its far more known cousin, the unique Fairey Rotodyne. They had big plans for it on the regional civilian transport market, but none of them came to fruition and only a single prototype was built and flown.
A lot of big heat radiators you have there.
Pretty good.Feel free to post any CGU and SotS civilian vehicles.
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In 1868, Zadoc Dederick of Newark, New Jersey built a robotic man wearing a top hat to pull carriages. His creation became known as "the Newark Steam Man," and its inventor hoped to build an army of steampunkish carriage drivers. Here's a description of the Steam Man from the January 23, 1868 edition of The Newark Observer:
I'm awfully tempted to start a new thread{I've wanted to do that for a long while anyway}. This one shouldn't have been necroed{sorry Petike. }.
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Seriously, what was the point in reviving this thread, guys?
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I'm sorry if I seemed to be acting a little pushy, though.
However, I did make a new thread for land-based vehicles:
The Alternate TL Vehicles Thread.
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