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Offline Old Wombat

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Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« on: October 19, 2016, 05:08:28 PM »
My wife just came across this on Facebook & showed me, so I looked it up on Google.





As I don't do Facebook (or any other social media, other than online modelling sites) I thought I'd link to Google:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Snow_Cruiser

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=admiral+byrd+snow+cruiser&biw=1280&bih=647&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjgnKPBv-bPAhVQ2GMKHWC2AqIQsAQILQ#imgrc=_
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Re: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2016, 08:47:39 PM »
As I remember, that one showed up in one of Clive Cussler's novels.
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Re: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2016, 03:10:33 AM »
There are a number of videos on this vehicle at YouTube.  You can see most of these in the search results at this link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Antarctic+Snow+Cruiser
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Re: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 04:53:05 AM »
Joel Dirnberger's long bookmarked pages (still the best one-stop for info) :
http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/snowhist.html

Nice big photos in an article from The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-antarctic-snow-cruiser-updated/424851/



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Re: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2016, 04:56:20 AM »
I had never seen it before. Thanks for sharing! Learn something new everyday!
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Re: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2016, 05:13:28 AM »
First learned of it many moons ago in the Wings magazine article:
http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/wings_feb_1980.html

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Re: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2016, 05:56:54 AM »
I had some very old Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Mechanics Illustrated magazines, one of which had a nice article with a lot of photographs plus the cut-away illustration.  Now long gone but that collection of old magazines kept me interested in all things mechanical and military in my younger days.
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