Planes & cars
Thursday, 18 September 2008 16:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
claidheamhmorCrash tests
Here's a really scary video clip showing crash testing of a VW Beetle and a VW Golf 2. Bear in mind that the Golf 2 was safer than the Golf 1, which is still sold in South Africa in vast numbers under the guise of the Citi Golf. For comparison with more modern cars, browse around in YouTube; the difference in passenger safety between pre-1980s cars and modern cars is quite startling.
Big aircraft
This was interesting: Monstrous Aviation: World's Biggest Airplanes. It's a bit of a varied selection: I see that, among others, the Caspian Sea Monster was missing.
The VM-T "Atlant" impressed me though:
Here's a really scary video clip showing crash testing of a VW Beetle and a VW Golf 2. Bear in mind that the Golf 2 was safer than the Golf 1, which is still sold in South Africa in vast numbers under the guise of the Citi Golf. For comparison with more modern cars, browse around in YouTube; the difference in passenger safety between pre-1980s cars and modern cars is quite startling.
Big aircraft
This was interesting: Monstrous Aviation: World's Biggest Airplanes. It's a bit of a varied selection: I see that, among others, the Caspian Sea Monster was missing.
The VM-T "Atlant" impressed me though: