How It Works-Amazing Vehicles

© Thin k stock Lockheed Martin’s C-5 Galaxy has 12 internal wing tanks with a total capacity of 194,370l of fuel Passengers On b ...

VTOL aircraft For the past 60 years, Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft have evolved massively as engineers have stri ...

ON THE MAP Harrier deployment The Harrier is operated worldwide by many military organisations in the following countries: allow ...

Vertol VZ-2 One of the fi rst fully functional VTOL aircraft, the Boeing Vertol VZ-2 paved the way for the gargantuan V-22 Ospre ...

Infl uenced in design by the British Hawker P.1154 and Harrier Jump Jet, the Yak-38 VTOL aircraf t looked similar to its contemp ...

100 Set sail aboard these remarkable marvels SEA 88 (^) Ocean hunters Thought sharks were scary? Meet these oceanic predators an ...

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W hat lies beneath? This question has fascinated mankind for decades. We know more about the surface of the Moon than we do abou ...

Submarine wings Like an aircraft in reverse, these hydrodynamic ‘wings’ are designed to pull the sub downward. Buoyant foam The ...

Take a tour of one of the longest-serving deep-sea submersibles in ocean science Inside Alvin means the pressure equals the weig ...

What are the main issues faced by deep-sea exploration today? We have the capacity and technology to build both manned and unman ...

As mere humans, superpowers are beyond our reach but sometimes technology lets us mimic these powers pretty well. If you’ve ever ...

One of the great uses for submersibles and remotely operated vehicles is their ability to go where humans can’t, and for long pe ...

vapour and sweat from the pilot into a special bag, which could be drunk in an emergenc y. Other t y pes of undersea robots are ...

Fast-forward 54 years, and the abyssal Mariana Trench gets her second batch of human visitors. No one had returned since Piccard ...

XSR48 superboat N o speedboat like the XSR48 has ever existed. It is such a revolutionary machine, a new term had to be invented ...

Interview Ian Sanderson CEO of XSMG Described by Jeremy Clarkson as “the most beautiful thing created by man”, the idea for the ...

Hovercraft T he ability of hovercraft to cross dry land as well as water has seen them employed in the military and tourism sect ...

Inside an LCAC hovercraft What are the components of a hovercraft that enable it to float? Air Hovercraft float on top of a larg ...

These fl oating oil fi elds carr y the energy needs of a nation in their ample bellies T he world thirsts for oil. Ever y day ou ...