come for a ride in the huge flying butt

roid · Post by **roid** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:08 pm

http://www.snotr.com/video/619

and get this, it has no wheels - those are 4 hover-pads it's \"rolling\" along the runway on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-791

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:42 pm

Flying butt indeed.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 12:57 pm

Wow. I hope that's not a commercial type of transport. Get me outta there!

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:09 pm

\"I brake for high winds\"

or should that be:

\"I break for high winds\" ?

Sedwick · Post by **Sedwick** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:53 pm

\"It's still better than dealing with the airline companies!\"

Spaceboy · Post by **Spaceboy** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:02 pm

I can easily imagine that thing turning up-side-down and totally breaking apart. It looks inefficient with energy, too.

SirWinner · Post by **SirWinner** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:30 pm

That looks cool... Weird design... but it works!

Imagine if the made it land like the harrier!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV-8_Harrier_II

Vertical landing with little to no runway... That would be very sweet!

Dakatsu · Post by **Dakatsu** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:51 pm

Sedwick wrote:"It's still better than dealing with the airline companies!"

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:01 am

reminds me of the cargolifter project that they had a while back here in germany. they tried to build giant cargo-zeppelins for oversea containers, but unfortunately ran out of funds in dev-stage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter

TIGERassault · Post by **TIGERassault** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:10 am

It's a hover vehicle, but not a good one. There's no need for a hovering vehicle at all, especially one that's powered by fans, since having two of them next to each other will make both of them crash instantly!

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:10 pm

no TIGERassault the hover pads are just there because it was easier than wheels - like a regular plane it still has to pick up speed on the ground to be able to fly.
when on the ground it does hover but it's not a hover vehicle, it's a plane - it flies high. This was just a low demonstration flight - it is flying however, it's not ground-effect. It may look like it's flying extra low because it's such a huge craft, it just looks odd to see something so huge.

it's a mixture of a blimp and plane. It gets some of it's lift from being a helium filled blimp - and some from it's lifting-wing-body design.

Sedwick · Post by **Sedwick** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:23 pm

Yay! Dak got my South Park reference!

Good thing they were able to reuse that Cargolifter hangar. I think I want to stay there some time...

TIGERassault · Post by **TIGERassault** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:13 pm

roid wrote:no TIGERassault the hover pads are just there because it was easier than wheels - like a regular plane it still has to pick up speed on the ground to be able to fly.
when on the ground it does hover but it's not a hover vehicle, it's a plane - it flies high. This was just a low demonstration flight - it is flying however, it's not ground-effect. It may look like it's flying extra low because it's such a huge craft, it just looks odd to see something so huge.

it's a mixture of a blimp and plane. It gets some of it's lift from being a helium filled blimp - and some from it's lifting-wing-body design.

Oh. Well then it's a lot more interesting!

Wheeze87 · Post by **Wheeze87** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:21 pm

That thing reminds me of a giant inflateable toy you win at a fiar ground, with design influences taken from the ship out of the fim \"the navigator\" know what i mean?...

Pretty cool though, but i that \"air ships. AKA ZEPPELINS\" were old hat know, guess this aint know conventional air ship though is it. Hopefully no \"hindenburg\" re-enactments will happen with things like this... :/

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:45 pm

We should ditch that thing and build us some Star Destroyers. Much more cool and attractive

Gekko71 · Post by **Gekko71** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:38 pm

...sorry guys - to me it looks more like something that might come OUT of a butt.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:09 am

Gekko71 wrote:...sorry guys - to me it looks more like something that might come OUT of a butt.

Who eats propellers??

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:52 am

Red_5 wrote:
Gekko71 wrote:...sorry guys - to me it looks more like something that might come OUT of a butt.
Who eats propellers??

a prancing purple propeller pooper.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:55 am

fliptw wrote:
Red_5 wrote:
Gekko71 wrote:...sorry guys - to me it looks more like something that might come OUT of a butt.
Who eats propellers??

a prancing purple propeller pooper.

Has he heard those flying butt artifacts come in black?

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