The latest Safari Ship - Today!

[sabredog]

Life imitates art -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ri-jet-transforms-plush-viewing-platform.html

 

[Gatsby]

:rofl:BWAHAHAHAHAA:rofl:

Of course, only deeply Trav geeks are gonna get the joke....

 

[nyrath]

heh, that's pretty good.

 

[far-trader]

I think somebody is having a laugh. I can just imagine all the wildlife you'll get to see from the edge of a runway. Even one supposedly "short and rough" enough to land and take off in this jet.

 

[aramis]

Yeah, it's not a good enough design... it's not built on an osprey (V-22) body....

 

[sabredog]

All in all, it's a good enough design depending on how "Rough and tumble" the runways is going to be. But I imagine it'll get snapped up by some Dubai princeling for use on his private island where he can have the runway hidden away, but a taxiway with parking going out to the beach. Power jacks for the ice-maker and plenty of servants for the cooking and such. It'd make about as much sense as that Russian billionaire who is collecting monster yachts.

But it does give some ideas on how a safari ship's balcony deck would look like and maybe work. Cut n' paste some 2-headed green giraffes into the pic and oila'!

 

[Khan Trav]

I like the idea of it being an OSPREY, still it needs a turret. At this tech level you could mount either M2 Brownings, a GAU family mini-gun or 20/30mm cannons.

I like to put a VRF Gauss Gun in one of the slots of a triple turret just for grounded point defense.

 

[Gojifam58]

...in the hands of a Somali pirate, this thing could combine the Mile High Club with Walking the Plank!:rofl:

 

[Easterner9504]

I think somebody is having a laugh. I can just imagine all the wildlife you'll get to see from the edge of a runway. Even one supposedly "short and rough" enough to land and take off in this jet.

You'd be amazed at what wanders onto African runways, it ain't Kansas!

http://www.ultimatesafarisandisland...at_Vumbura_Plains_camp__l.jpg&subfolders=True

http://safetybootsandcrochet.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/amanda-3-crocodile-0-giraffe-ooops/ Scroll down a few pix.

http://bushwarriors.org/tag/ifaw/