Database for Types of Transportation, Any ships, planes, trains, automobiles

[motorcycleress]

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Helene's page is awesome and likely very accurate, so Maxlike.

You should make a little Max hologram to click on to enter your site.

Thanks, for your site!

-D

This post has been edited by DirkPitt on Mar 22 2004, 08:55 AM

[NUMA_Diver]

I thought it would be helpful to start a mini-database, listing all of the ships, planes, subs, trains, automobiles, or anything else used for transportation in any of the Cussler novels. If you list a train, ship or plane, please include the name, make or model of each, along with what novel it is from. Once we have a completed list I will compile it into a more easily readable format and post it for future reference.
Take care
Mike

[Foss Gly]

Dirk Pitt Revealed has a lot of the names of the ocean-going vessels and Pitt's autos in each novel, at least up to Flood Tide. Anything after that would have to be researched manually.
Good idea, Mike!

[Nic0demus]

Can't forget the famous "bathtub with onboard motor"!

[DirkPitt]

Ok, great idea NUMA_Diver !

Here's one I found for your "ships" catagory ;

The Viking cargo ship of the "knarr" class in Valhalla Rising.

Knarrs were the bulkier, utilitarian trading ships of the Norse peoples. Though not as sleek as the longships, it was knarrs that crossed the North Atlantic. And it was in a knarr that Leif Eriksson explored Finland.

Around 60 ft long and 15 ft wide, it could carry 15 tons.

In Valhalla Rising, expedition leader to the New World, Bjarne Sigvatson sailed this type of vessel across the Atlantic.

Cheers ...

[NUMA_Diver]

Here is one that is interesting. In Valhalla Rising, Dirk and Al used a luxury submarine, that looked more like a yacht than a sub, to attach an explosive device to the hull of the Mongol Invader by using a spar like the one installed on the Hunley. The sub was the Coral Wanderer. If you are interested in checking these fascinating submarines out, click on this link The Real Coral Wanderer. Also take a moment to look around their site, it is great.
Take care
Mike

[DirkPitt]

The Moller Skycar from Atlantis Found

This from the book ;

"The Moller M400 Skycar wasn't much larger than a jeep Cherokee, but it was as stable in flight as a much larger aircraft, and capable of being piloted down city streets and parked in a residential garage. The aerodynamic design, with its sloping, conical bow, gave it a look somewhere between a General Motors car of the future and a rocket fighter out of Star Wars. The four lift/thrust nacelles each held two counter-rotating engines, enabling the Moller to lift off the ground like a helicopter and move horizontally like a conventional aircraft at a cruising speed of three hundred miles an hour, with an operational ceiling of 30,000 feet. Lose an engine or two and it could still land safely without discomfort to the passengers. Even if it suffered a catastrophic component failure, dual airframe parachutes would be deployed to lower the Skycar and its occupants to the ground, undamaged and unhurt."

[Cusslermen]

Well you've mentioned it, I thought I show a picture as rendered by artist Frank Bolle, and made available in limited editon and signed by Clive thru the Clive Cussler Collector Society:

[Foss Gly]

Whoa! I want that!

[motorcycleress]

Skycar,

If you goto the moller.com website you can see a video of the skycar flying. Neat little company. Wish they had hired me.

-D

[Helene Noelle]

This is an interesting area. Have a few more in my files waiting to add various areas including the Numa page on my site.

NUMA Vessels:
 First Attempt, a research ship-The Mediterranean Caper and Raise the Titanic!
 Sappho 1, a NUMA research submersible-Raise the Titanic! and Night Probe!
 Doodlebug, a NUMA research vessel (three-man crew)-Night Probe!
etc.



BUT the Dear Heart vessel in Trojan Odyssey has already prompted a review on my part for several "dear heart" phrases CC used in several books prior to this one.

[Loren]

Iceberg- An antique Ford trimotor aircraft, famed in History as the Tin Goose!!
Also in RT Titanic- A Grumman F4F World War II aircraft..

Grumman F4F






Ford Trimotor "Tin Goose"