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What is the tire pressure of a commercial jet?
Commercial airplanes are large and complex machines with many critical components, but some of them are a bit more familiar to us...
Should all cars have centerlock wheels? No
How many bolts or nuts are holding each wheel of your car? That number is probably 4 or 5, but why not...
What is the fastest submarine in the world?
Ships are not very fast, compared to ground vehicles. Even an old beater car can easily go 130 km/h (or much faster)...
Scary arrival – why planes sometimes land hard on purpose?
Most travellers have experienced this feeling. The entire flight goes smoothly, but at the very end, the plane touches down so roughly...
Neoplan Jumbocruiser – the largest double-decker bus in history
The Neoplan Jumbocruiser has long ceased to be the most capacious bus in the world. In 2016, this honour went to the...
Why Škoda is replacing its winged arrow logo with a wordmark?
Back in the day, kids used to brag about their ability to recognize the logos of all the car brands. Chances are...
Pelorus Jack – dolphin from the sailing history books
Cook Strait, which separates the North and South islands of New Zealand, has never been the safest place for shipping. Particularly dangerous...
Why some cars had fender-mounted side mirrors?
If you love looking through classifieds of classic cars, you've noticed that some of them have fender-mounted side mirrors. The conventional door-mounted...
Peugeot 406 Coupé was almost a Fiat
Peugeot 406, produced in 1995-2004, is a fairly simple everyday family car. Laurent Rossi's design looked sharp and modern in its day,...
Why rims are measured in inches?
Parts of Europeans cars are pretty much always in metric: 10 mm nut, 15 mm diameter hose and so on. After all,...
Iceland has no railways, but it had 3 separate train accidents
Iceland is one of the few countries in Europe that does not have a railway. There were never any train stations, intercity...
