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To: Travis McGee

Self righting and unsinkable?

Don’tcha wish the bigger stuff was like that? I saw an auction for an ex Coast Guard training vessel thats designed to roll completely and come upright, I saw a video of one used I think just off the coast in Oregon, massive breakers there. They had the engine mounted very securely and able to run upside down, must have been a Detroit.


39 posted on 11/26/2012 5:27:19 AM PST by Eye of Unk (A Civil Cold War in America is here, its already been declared.)
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To: Eye of Unk

Things get easier at smaller sizes. It’s the same reason why the tiny quad rotor R/C helicopters are so agile. Less inertia, smaller forces. A hurricane won’t blow out the sails on this thing, just tumble it around for a while.


40 posted on 11/26/2012 5:37:22 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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