Catamarans have a number of design elements that put them among the fastest sail/motorized vehicles on the seas. The hulls of a sail-powered catamaran are made of fibreglass fabric, foam or another lightweight material, allowing them to catch a large amount of wind. This allows the catamaran to reach a higher speed, as there is …
Monorails were once predicted to be the public-transportation system of the future — what happened? In 1959, Disneyland in California introduced a monorail system that attracted attention throughout the world. It wasn’t the world’s first monorail, but its futuristic appearance captured people’s imaginations, leading many to expect monorails to become the primary public-transportation systems of …
Magnetically powered capsules that speed through vacuum tubes at 370 mph may be the salvation of commuters, thanks to a U.S. visionary and a Chinese university; they are developing a cutting-edge vacuum train capable of handling as much traffic as a 32-lane highway. At quitting time every day in New York City, thousands of people …
There are several kinds of cargo ship, each specializing in carrying various goods in tailored ways. But in general they can be identified by three key features. The first of these are deck cranes, static lifting platforms that specialize in distributing freight on and off the vessel, as well as into the ship’s deep cargo …
A pitstop is a motorsport operation where a racing car-such as those used in Formula 1 – is refuelled, fixed, adjusted or gets a new driver. In an F1 context, a pitstop generally entails changing the car’s wheels and topping up its fuel tank.
How these vehicles traverse icy terrain? In the pursuit of getting from A to B as quickly as possible, it was only a matter of time before we told traditional skis to ‘skid off and invented the snowmobile.
What makes these little boats so versatile? Modern sprint kayaks are constructed from carbon fibre, fiberglass or wood. This ensures a light weight and therefore higher speed. Kayaks are small, narrow boats – most commonly single-seater – designed to transport their user over a variety of watery environments, be that calm, flat lakes, choppy coastal …
A real-life Nautilus, the Bathyscaphe Trieste explored the deepest parts of Earth’s oceans, remaining to this day the only manned vehicle to have reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.
The WRC series delivers some of the most spectacular and demanding racing in the world, pitting drivers against ice, snow and boulder-strewn cross-country tracks at intense speeds.
The oldest and arguably greatest test of racing endurance, Le Mans demands composure, skill and elite engineering. Think two hours of racing, as undertaken by F1 drivers, is demanding? Well, think again.
