Four Incredible Machines That Are No Longer With Us
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Explore four groundbreaking machines lost to history in this deep dive! From the mighty SR.N4 hovercraft to the Soviet supersonic TU-144, discover what made them iconic-and why they disappeared.
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You can still get a Hovercraft to the Isle of Wight. They advertise them as “flights”
Exactly what I was going to say as soon as Simon said hovercraft! It is the last one though. Sadly didn’t travel on it when I last went to Wight in 2006. Got the WightLink Ferry from the neighbouring dock in Portsmouth.
There is a hovercraft museum in Gosport (across the water from Portsmouth) and that's where the hovercraft used to leave from to travel to Isle of Wight
@@jamiekay133 I think he ended up referring to the specific model rather than them in general, but as far as I know, the Isle of Wight ferry is the last hovercraft route in the world.
Aeroglisseur in France.
Southsea (on the mainland) to Ryde (on the IoW) if I remember correctly. Hovertravel is the operator. They haven't got any SRN4s any more, they phased out all of their SRN4s, SRN5s and SRN6s and haven't had any since the early 80s. Their fleet these days just consists of a pair of Griffon 12000TDs. Those two hovercraft make Hovertravel the largest hovercraft operator in the world lol.
I’ve been on the hovercraft a few times, they were bloody loud while under power
The Channel hovercraft weren't just loud, but uncomfortable in any sort of swell, since they bounced across the wave tops. I crossed to France on one once - and got a normal ferry back.
@@ThatGeezer I can see what you mean. I've only been on the Channel hovercraft once and that was when the weather wasn't that great. That was, well, exciting ... :D
I've been to the hovercraft museum at Lee on Solent. Highly recommended! You get to walk around the Princess Margret, as well as being able to see a number of other hovercraft rarities, including the first hovercraft prototype.
Pretty happy to live close to this.
the end music is SO LOUD. Please help out those of us with heightened startle reflexes and tone it down.
Big Muskie made the list!😊
I remember seeing it from a distance before it was disassembled. You can go stand in the bucket at The Wilds Safari Park in Ohio.
I used to see it when camping at the Strip Mines. It was amazing.
04:30 - OH YES! 👏 👏 👏 👏
Concordski! I loved that on Megaprojects. One of your VERY FIRST!
Could have also been called the "Discordski", being discordant with good sensible design and unreliable. There was also the other supersonic airliner being developed but which was abandoned. That was the Boeing 2707, AKA the SST of the USA, bigger and faster than the concord or the TU144 but which became too costly and too complex.
Haha nice, I saw your comment and thought you spelled it wrong (on purpose) but no! Concordski is a thing😂
@@Iris_and_or_George There is such a thing as convergent evolution from different lines of descent of animals or ideas but the TU144 is rather more than what would be accounted for in convergent evolution. Subsequent to the collapse of the Soviet Union documents prove the industrial spying involved.
I live 5 minutes from the hovercraft museum in Lee on the Solent where the large beasts are rotting away. One gone already and one left, Princess Anne
6:01 that’s the information we understand
So…Big Muskie was less than half the price of a super yacht of today…
It boggles the mind
All the best to everyone
The TU144 and Air France Concorde shown the stands are at the Technik Museum in Sinsheim Germany, you can go up on the roof of the building and climb inside them.
I've always said that those giant hovercraft would be perfect for any "Ice road" heavy haulage. They wont sink that's for sure
I think moving that much cold air can cause problems, icing of props, etc. I'd assume at some point there's a lower temperature threshold at which they become risky or inefficient comparatively.
Also ice is sharp.
But they will crash into that tree over there and you wont have enough control to stop it.
There are stories of these Flying over boats when crossing the channel, They do sit above the ground by quite a bit, to the point where the drivers are called Pilots, and the skirt is a flexible rubber and made of many pieces, making it harder to damage the whole skirt.....and the skirt isn't needed to the thing to fly, but it certainly makes it more efficient and controllable , not perfect but not like it's a weak or vulnerable craft.
You are right, there would become a point where the temperature will effect the craft. But these are engineering problems that wouldn't be too hard to solve.
Ultimate it'll come down to a cost/time analysis.
It's unlikely that equipment would be lost as even worse case you can retrieved it after the ice has melted.
If a route could be worked out using rivers these would be working all year around also.
I think the maintenance costs for them is WAY higher than trucks.
You failed to mention Silver City Airways, who using the Bristol 170 Freighter flew cars from the early '50's from back and forth from Lydd in Kent to Le Touquet, France.
An incredible lost machine, not saying it was good, but I would love to see it in a museum; the Antarctic Snow Cruiser
Calum would approve.
Some of them look like Hurricane Hunters, we did a video about those
Took the Hovercraft from Calais to Dover and back, several times, and it was awesome!
I will never forget the noise they made.
Simon do not just judge the hovercraft on the crossing you are forgetting it was quick to dock and faster to load, because they just glide in up a ramp and drop there own ramp and the cars just start rolling off/on, very fast indeed compared to a ferry.
I NEED A CROSS REFERENCE: How tall is Big Muskee in Danny DeVitos?
Fun fact. I once drove a standard US pickup truck into Big Muske's bucket -- and back out, only having to make one backup move. Almost made a U-turn without backing.
I went on the hovercraft from Dover to Calais and back. It made some bloody racket
Not a good trip to have a migraine on huh?
Excellent video!!!
Am I blessed? Well, I was on an SR-N4 "Mountbatten" once as a young boy, with my dad and his car. So, yes...
My wife and I rode one of the “Hovercraft” across the English Channel in the early 90’s on a trip to Europe. Fun…but LOUD!
Seaspeed Hovercraft didn't even have a bar or a loo for the short trip from Dover to Boulogne. Off we went in 83 decked in our cub scout duds.
No bar, ok, but no provisions for ... ? That's confidence.
I took a trip on one of those hovercraft across the channel in 1980.
I've never been so seasick in my life.
I was on the motor ferry in 1985. It was announced about the accident with the hover craft. We were told that when the ferry was entering the sea wall, a 16 feet wave hit the hovercraft and pushed it into the sea wall. The ocean in the channel was extremely ruff with 20+ waves.
6:43 You can say that about the Concorde too. Not having nose flaps force you to make more complex delta wings.
We used to drive by Big Muskie between my parents' house and my grandparents' house when I was a kid. I've always loved heavy equipment, so it was always a big deal to everyone in the car.
You could fit two Dara O'Briains in Big Muskie's bucket! (Megabus joke)
There was a documentary on Big Muskie a number of years ago that featured a video of it walking, and there was a commercial dumpster sitting on top of its foot. The foot also had a ladder up the side, but it reminded me of the opening of "Red Dwarf" on the BBC.
I live close to pegwell and remember the hovercraft there, went exploring the site once it shut when I was a kid, and got removed by angry security
I rode a hovercraft across the channel in June 2000 on a trip to Europe with my high school French club. I had no idea it was about to become a thing of the past.❤
..wait why is Dara Ó Briain on the side of that bus at 11:49
Took that from Dover to Calais, 1990. Rough day, it still amazes me how those high-heeled attendants managed to keep their feet, carrying trays of duty-free.
Illustrious platform. My Dude!!!
Used to take the hovercraft all the time across to France it used to be called the 'Vomit Comet'.
The U.S. Navy is the largest operator of Hovercraft. They’re called Landing Craft Air Cushion or LCAC.
I think I've nearly caught up on all of your videos
Thanks Mr. Whistler and all.
I road to France on the giant hovercraft in '77 or '78. It was like being on an airliner and amazing! As we hit the shallows in France I looked out the window and saw people just watching us fly by.
*rode also
While in Europe in 1979 we took Seaspeed from France to UK and
back going then to London and
Oxford from there. 😅
Fun fact.
Seawise giant is indeed the longest single hull ship ever built.
but not the widest.
Whilst seawise was beeing built in Japan The Widest one was beeing built half a world away in Uddevalla Sweden as the TT Nanny.
Nanny was the widest ship ever built period until 2013.
She was to high to fit under the then still standing Almö bridge (Destroyed 1980) so they simply had to build her funnels to fold whilst crossing under same with her masts.
Another Intresting part is that Uddevalla Shipyard was not the biggest shipyard by any means in Sweden as Gothenburg had by then the biggest Shipyards in the world.
Arendal Shipyard in Gothenburg was by far the most intresting as it built some of the largest ships then seen to man indoors.
Something no other shipyard do even to this day.
and it was truly a megaproject.
Travelled on the srn4 many times in the 70s always an event
YEEEEESSSSS LEARNINGZ 🤪
What i am learning is rolse royce makes big engines.
I use to have a couple of photos that I took to do with the size of a dragline ( not this one ). The 1st was from the public road showing a dragline with what look like tiny little cranes with it. the other photo was of one of those cranes closer, they were the biggest road transportable with only a little on-site construction ( The crane would drive to site with only 1 other semi trailer of bits to bolt on to use it ) it was huge.
I have also been on one when it went for a walk, not fast but something that big going that fast...
You might want to note that the Tu-144 was also used by NASA as a flying supersonic research lab in the 1990s.
Care to explain why the Isle of Wight runs a hovercraft ferry?
There are tales of Soviet agents getting on factory tours and stamping on the floor, hoping to get shards of Concorde metal stuck into their shoes for later analysis...
Should've mentioned the AN225
15:56 my guess of 10 was 2 Titanics short, it seems.
Oh? Princess Anne? She had a Reliant Robin, you know?
Uhhhh... Hovercraft aren't gone. Hell, I've gone to hovercraft-specific SCHOOLS; we still use them all the time (well, i guess the NAVY still uses them, since I retired last year and don't do that anymore 🤔🤷♂️😆)
They never claimed hovercraft are gone. That specific hovercraft is gone
There was a point about a year ago where the channel might as well have been renamed MilitaryAircraftProjects 😂
I technically am a former employee (custodian) of Bucyrus and I cant get over the way simon pronounced it lmao
To imagine the volume of earth that was moved by Big Muskie, imagine a cube with sides about 775 m long. That is the height of two Empire State buildings.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but if the TU 144 was supersonic, the passengers shouldn't have heard the roar of the afterburner. I'd only imagine it would be louder on board subsonic or do to poorly balanced engines
Clearly operating a supersonic jet only within Russia was dumb and impractical, but maybe, just maybe there is a bit of bias?
Big Muskie's bucket is bigger that my flat!
another one: AN-225 Mrija, one of the first victims of Russian attack on Ukraine...
plane lover in me still grieves
Now that was an amazing plane! Hopefully one day another will be built!
For Americans, the bucket on big Muskie is 173 cubic meters, which is 218 cubic yards, or 22 dump trucks.
Makes you wonder, did the Concord engineers deliberately prank their Soviet hosts and then have a good chuckle over it in private? 🤔
What happens if you fill your hovercraft with eels?
I rode in the British hovercraft in 1973. Wonderful ride but noisy.
We have Megabus in the US. Never used it. I just drive.
You say the hovercraft speed in kph but caption it in mph... which is it?
Why were the details of his videos in russian at 0:02? I thought simon is from UK?
I vomited on one of those hovercrafts! And apparently now decided to see that as bragging rights.... Fml😅
Antonov AN 225
How convenient you 'forget'.
Isn’t it bad luck to rename a maritime vessel?
If so, major shipping isn't superstitious. They change names usually when they change hands, from what I understand.
But also, I understand this to be a correct statement, as far as smaller vessels and superstitions I've heard. Not sure how that works because I understood the same but see it done often
I think its only if its renamed during a voyage.
Thank goodness the 5th greatest machine is still here…Simon’s beard.
Yeh, that's cool and all, but how many Danny DeVito's long was the Seawise Giant? Enquiring minds wanna know.
Bew- sy rus
Not buck i rus
Oh Simon, I find your fantasy "tonnes" amusing. British people come up with the craziest things lol.
/s
90 minutes to 35 is impressive but how much more are you willing to pay for that small savings?
1/137
Happy giant
Jahra Viking
Nock nevis
Mont
and the ferry now seems go back to match the history time for crossing? 🤥
Shit some big Muskie love!
Seawise Giant
(About big muskie) Bucyrus is pronounced "byoo-si(like eye)rus" my mom is from that town lol. Most people say buckie-rus at first glance.
Big muskies bucket is still in Ohio, just chilling atop the very hill it cut down
Sure would be nice to get freedom units? Why use the titanic? Yeah we've heard plenty of stories and facts pretty sure none of us have EVER seen it
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Making something that is absolute shit is not a hell of an achievement. Particularly when they had a much better version to steal ideas and technology from
Oooh you're gonna get murdered in the comments
It's not byou-ki-rus, it's byou-si-rus
I half expected the German bucket-wheel excavators on that list - some of which dwarf Big Muskie despite also being mobile. But I can see why they were omitted: Some of them are still in use
And many of those that are not, were simply left in-situ because it would have been too expensive to disassemble them... I know of a few that were turned into a museum.
Russia. There you go. The government of Russia has pretty much always not given 2 shots about the lives of their citizens.
This is my 1st 1st
Nope, I'm first! 😊
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WHY IS THIS CHANNEL SO LOUD? FIRE YOUR AUDIO GUY.
It's a vehicle. A vehicle is not a person, it's an it. This personification tradition is cringe.
Mach is pronounced more like "Mockh" with an aspirated sound at the end. It was the name of Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist. When you say "mac", you do him and the science a disservice.
Still can't pronounce Byoo-sye-rus Eerie right.. come on fact boi..
Can you maybe say it in feet for your American subscribers???
Four piles of junk
What with all the metres and kilometres ? Hasn’t this bloke heard of Brexit?
RUclips is international
Simon! Please lose the damn music!
Faithful viewer, big fan here.
Watch everything, all your channels, carefully contribute full watch time and the 👍.
But dude. I'm in my seventies here.
Mine ears are become imperfect.
I enjoy your content in large part for the clarity of your speech.
Please.
Ditch the damn music.
Nobody likes it.
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FYI it's pronounced Bu-sigh-rus
Your channel is like a joyful journey into the world of fun and entertainment. Keep making us happy with your funny videos!🫑💦😆