Oh 1967 Ford Mustang Fastbacks. How I love them. Stunning and stupid. My favorite type of design and engineering. Actually scrap that, my favourite type of everything is stunning and stupid. It's a curse. Stunning and stupid. Like most of the things that seem to dominate my life. Oh alright, here's some stunning and stupid things if you have any questions just ask.
The Hoover damn, caused the flooding of large parts of America in the 20's, the loss of crops and homes and was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people working on it. Gave jobs in the depression though. 
The Princess flying boat, not a plane that can land on water, a boat that can fly. Crashed in the rainforest with not enough water to let it take off again. What is the point in a boat that can fly anyway? 
The SR-71. Fastest plane ever built. In ten years of service half of the 50 built crashed, killing all occupants, due to an 'engine burp' which caused one of the two wing-mounted engines to flip out and start going in reverse at about three times the speed of sound. Literally ripping the plane apart. Annoyingly it was more fuel efficient the faster it went, making it entirely unique. 
The Jahre Viking/Sea Giant/Happy Giant. Whatever it's named now. It's the worlds bigget moving man made object. It's the same length as the empire state building is tall and can transport $900 million worth of oil at one time. Unfortunately it was too big for the Suez Canal. Ultimately it's more efficient to run two tankers at half the size and save cruising round the whole of Africa. 
There's so many more out there but blogger only lets me upload 5 photos at a time.
2 comments:
Nice work Tobias. The 'Spruce Goose' is another example of massive stupid flying boats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_goose
ToBiaS,You are seriously confused...u need a check-up m8, fact.
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