What kind of water is used to pour ice for competitions? How thick is it? How is it removed afterwards? Many such questions may arise when watching elegant figure skating…
Commercial airplanes are large and complex machines with many critical components, but some of them are a bit more familiar to us ground-crawling creatures. Planes have tires and your car…
How many bolts or nuts are holding each wheel of your car? That number is probably 4 or 5, but why not just 1? Some sports cars have wheels with…
Ships are not very fast, compared to ground vehicles. Even an old beater car can easily go 130 km/h (or much faster) on the highway, while most ships travel four…
Most travellers have experienced this feeling. The entire flight goes smoothly, but at the very end, the plane touches down so roughly that some think they have experienced a crash…
The Neoplan Jumbocruiser has long ceased to be the most capacious bus in the world. In 2016, this honour went to the Volvo Gran Artic 300, which theoretically could accommodate…
Back in the day, kids used to brag about their ability to recognize the logos of all the car brands. Chances are you've had a friend who considered knowing logos…
Cook Strait, which separates the North and South islands of New Zealand, has never been the safest place for shipping. Particularly dangerous was the French Pass (Te Aumiti), which is…
If you love looking through classifieds of classic cars, you've noticed that some of them have fender-mounted side mirrors. The conventional door-mounted mirrors are easy to adjust and clean so…
Peugeot 406, produced in 1995-2004, is a fairly simple everyday family car. Laurent Rossi's design looked sharp and modern in its day, but now it's an easily forgettable vehicle. Except…
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