You need to own a few oil fields and a refinery or two... to have those! B.T.W. I calculate the fuel consumption of Azzam with all 4 engines at...
Modern jet engines a realy highly advanced pieces of machinery. If you think about geared turbo fans, variable inlet guide vanes or internally...
Interesting underwater body Interesting naval architecture on the underwater body of "Dream". Very large strakes to support the stabilizers on...
Lm 2500 It is amazing that the General Electric LM2500 Gas Turbine is still in production. Its basis, the aircraft engines TF-39 and the later...
What is so bad about getting older? You made Your way in business or your profession. Your wife stil seem to like you after all those years (at...
Jep, that is the "rudder position indicator" And the best thing is, you need two keys. The first one gives you about 600 HP and the second one,...
One, who does not care about a Bugatti Veyron, has never driven a car on the highway at 253 miles per hour.:p (It would scare the sh..... out of...
Some parts of that whale must be still in earth orbit after that explosion.:D
As perfectly stated before, there is no free lunch or more academically spoken the Perpetuum Mobile will never come. Until somebody invents the...
Why not? Money makes the world go round. Let the wealthy spend their money for luxury. Thousends of workers and their families worldwide depend on...
Sometimes they use heavy cargo ships just in order to lower the hull into the water. It is much cheaper to hire a heavy cargo ship (which is...
Port Adriano It is one of my favorite places too. Although it does not have the ambience of Puerto Portals jet, it is picking up. Nice shops and...
If you equip your boat with 2 of those babys each, that will give you some performance at least.:) Copyright MTU/Tognum
A body of this size steaming through the sea at speeds of 30 Kts or above will need at least 100 feet of water below the keel, otherwise causing...
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this is the propulsion concept Azzam is based upon. copyright of the picture B+V
Exhaust stacks But I believe they are needed. Those two GT convert some 20.000.000 cubic feet of fresh air per hour into exhaust gas. And this...
I must admit, there are only a very small number of yards in the world being capable of building a yacht like this. The propulsion system seems...
Thank god, the awful times of cold war are over. Lets hope a little man in far east wakes up one morning and finds out how stupid he behaves....
Radar mount Most or all of the questions can be answered by remembering the principles of RADAR. Antenna height: As radar transmissions are of...
More than 25 years ago, my family and I became witness of a tradical accident in a Danish yacht harbour. A man and his wife on their hombuild...
