"Sometimes converted from standard vehicles, sometimes beginning as clean-sheet designs, these machines have met the engineering and economic challenges of dual-mode travel with varying degrees of success. This book describes a fascinating array of these vehicles from the United States and abroad, including flying automobiles, roadable aircraft, amphibious vehicles, hovercraft, road-rail trains, and triphibious inventions"--Provided by publisher
Flying cars, amphibious vehicles, and other dual mode transports : an illustrated worldwide history
2010
IX, 230 S. , 26 cm
Buch
Englisch