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DF Suggestions / Re: Corkscrews as mechanized transport devices
« on: November 17, 2012, 02:15:41 pm »Probably. That looks right.I must have been thinking of one of Russia's other airborne aircraft carriers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7 This perhaps?
IIRC NASA had some projects to send a "corckscrew" veichle to the moon because they didn't know how deep or what consistency the lunar soil had. It moved just like a giant drill."Had." There's a reason for that.
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also see this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle for more crazy russian "planes"Amusing.