Transportation Oddities

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Modes

Inexpensive Aviation

• Powered Parachute (PPC) aircraft

~ About the optional Sport Pilot certificate

• Fly without any pilot certificate = With a Certified Flight Instructor, fly virtually anything.
• Fly indefinately as a Student pilot = With instructors permission, fly by yourself almost anywhere.
• Fly as an atypical Commercial pilot = The inexpensive Commercial Balloon certificate.

• What is a Gyroplane?

~ PAL-V "flying car"

• Fun Things to Fly

• Wingsuits (for those who want to emulate "Rocky the Flying Squirrel")
• Drones allowed to be flown in commercial airspace (*.pdf)

• Experimental Aircraft Building

~ Experimental Aircraft Rentals

• The Mazda Rotary engine for aviation

~ Mazda Rotary Gear Reduction Drives

• Database of Little-Known Airfields
• History of Commercial Aviation

~ Airline Seat Guru^$

• Airline "Meals" (just for fun)
• Airline Baggage Fees

Space

• SpaceShipOne

~ The Gemini Program

• Comparison of Starship Dimensions

• Rocket Racing Association

~ National Association of Rocketry

• NASA Space Launch System
• Virgin Galactic
• Bigelow Aerospace

Uncommon Automotive

• What your Car Plate Numbers say about you
• How Do Modern Car Engines Work?
• Slant Six Forum

~ Slant six engine - Performance upgrades

~ Electroluminescent Dash Lighting

~ Custom Chrysler Highway HiFi Record

• History of the Batmobile
• Midwest Microcar Museum
• History of the Great Race

• About the Opel Manta
• About the 1977 Plymouth Volare Premier Wagon
• Database of old car manuals
• Noise reduction materials

• Vehicle MPG database^$
• Top Tier Detergent Gasoline^$
• Alcohol and Flexible-Fuel Vehicles

~ Alcohol Fuel Stations^$

• Uber Driver Requirements

Rail

• The Worlds Subway Systems
• History of the New York Subway
• History of the Pyongyang Metro

• North American Passenger Rail
• Private Varnish

• The Monorail Society

Ships

• Cruise Ship Ratings^$
• Outbreak Updates for International Cruise Ships^$
• Tampa Cruise Guide^$
• Cargo Ship Voyages

Recreational Vehicles

• History of Futuristic Transportation
• RV Styles
• Self-deploying relocatable buildings
• miniHOME off-grid RV house

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