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kilo delta
December 20th, 2010, 14:57
http://www.flankers-site.co.uk/china2010_day04.html

cool

Allen
December 20th, 2010, 17:54
Vary cool.

Gdavis101
December 20th, 2010, 23:17
Cool pics! :salute:

brad kaste
December 21st, 2010, 06:18
I'm a bit confused why the Chinese would build a concrete carrier for display purposes. As far as I know,...they don't have a functioning, operable carrier within their navy. Of course they're displaying an SR-71 Blackbird,....which they don't have either. But maybe they will within a few short years.....

Bone
December 21st, 2010, 07:36
Someone in the US made a cement boat a number of years ago in their backyard. It made the news when they hauled it to the water on a 18 wheeler flat bed. It didn't sink.

brad kaste
December 21st, 2010, 08:30
Someone in the US made a cement boat a number of years ago in their backyard. It made the news when they hauled it to the water on a 18 wheeler flat bed. It didn't sink.
Concrete ships too were built and used during WWII.
http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww2/

n4gix
December 21st, 2010, 08:46
Thanks, Brad. I was just about to post the same link! Concrete ships are nothing new, that's for sure... ;)

Snuffy
December 21st, 2010, 10:27
Someone in the US made a cement boat a number of years ago in their backyard. It made the news when they hauled it to the water on a 18 wheeler flat bed. It didn't sink.

As long as there is enough draft water pressure will equalize and support anything as long as it's designed properly regardless of what it's built out of.

Terry
December 21st, 2010, 10:39
I remember a show on the History channel about a carrier made of ice and sawdust, that was really cool!

Bjoern
December 21st, 2010, 10:56
Coolio!

I especially like the Oriental Pearl. I could spend all day up there watching the life below me going about its ways...

Allen
December 21st, 2010, 14:33
I remember a show on the History channel about a carrier made of ice and sawdust, that was really cool!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

Also Mythbusters made Pykrete *ice and sawdust* to test and a better formulation of Pykrete using newspaper in faver of sawdust they made into a small boat.

hairyspin
December 21st, 2010, 14:55
Concrete ships too were built and used during WWII.
http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww2/


As were floating concrete harbours - the Mulberry harbours placed off the Normandy coast after D-Day 1944. Some of the over-production is still lying where it was left in the UK.