How It Works: Amazing Vehicles

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Futuristic
fi ghters
Rocket-powered
planes
Supersonic jets
explained
Ultimate war
machines
The science of
submarines
BOOK OF
VOLUME 1
Under the hood of Inside an The power of
a muscle car F1 car superbikes
A LOOK INSIDE SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST INCREDIBLE MACHINES

Welcome to
BOOK OF
From supersonic jets and rocket-powered planes to massive
ocean liners and underwater cars, this book is packed with the
most incredible machines on the planet. Learn about the
amazing engineering behind some of the world’s fastest
vehicles, and see how even the most powerful supercars
are now eco-friendly. Discover how a new generation of
airliners are changing the way we travel, and what the trains
and planes of the future will look like. Learn how modern
combat has been revolutionised by some truly astonishing
vehicles, and get a detailed look at some of the iconic tanks,
ships and planes that have cemented their place in the history
books. If you love power, speed and groundbreaking
technology, engineering and aerodynamics, then you’ll love
the How It Works Book of Amazing Vehicles.

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Part of the
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How It Works Book Of Amazing Vehicles
102 Extreme submarines
Fastest vehicles
106 Amphibious machines
008 World’s Fastest Vehicles
Take a look at some of the machines that Military
have a serious need for speed
112 21st Century combat vehicles
The cutting-edge war machines
Land
120 Abrams M1 Battletank
016 Racing cars
122 F-35 and the future fi ghters
The ultimate racing technology
128 Sea Harrier
024 Dragsters
130 Stealth Bomber
026 Bugatti Veyron
132 Sea Vixen
028 McLaren 12C
134 Mikoyan Mig-29
030 Inside a hydrogen
hybrid supercar 136 F-14 Tomcat
© NASA; Lockheed Martin
032 Muscle cars evolved 138 AH-64D Apache Longbow
036 Inside the President’s car 140 Stealth warships
038 Pit-Bull VX 144 The world’s deadliest submarine
040 Eco cars evolved 150 Next-gen battleships
042 Mavizen TTX02
044 Superbikes Historic

048 Inside the ultimate RV
156 Concorde
050 The world’s biggest trucks Inside the groundbreaking jet
054 Super high-speed trains 158 Da Vinci’s fl ying machine
160 Supermarine Spitfi re
Air 162 Lancaster bomber
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164 Messerschmitt Me 262
060 Boeing 787 Dreamliner
The ultimate commercial liner 166 The B-17 Flying Fortress
064 Airbus A380 168 F-86 Sabre
066 Lineage 1000 jet 170 Churchill tank
068 On-board Air Force One 172 The Tiger tank
070 The new Concorde 174 The Model T
074 On board a cargo plane 176 The Flying Scotsman Locomotive
076 VTOL aircraft 178 The Mallard steam locomotive
180 The Mary Rose
Sea 182 The Mayfl ower
184 HMS Victory
© NASA
082 The world’s largest cruise ship
186 Cutty Sark
On-board the Oasis of the Seas
188 U-boats explained
088 XSR48 superboat
190 Bathyscaphe Trieste
090 Mega yachts
094 Hovercraft
096 Supertankers explained
100 The largest cargo ship in the world
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© Northrop Grumman
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FASTEST VEHICLES
Speed machines
The bumps in the road
Speed vs
Drag is one of the greatest engineering
Some have contested the Venom GT
challenges to designing a supersonic land is faster than the Veyron Super Sport
acceleration
vehicle capable of breaking speed records. Even overall but this is yet to be confi rmed
low-fl ying fi ghter jets have only reached 1,600
In January 2013, a Hennessey Venom GT ripped
kilometres (994 miles) per hour and that’s down an airport runway in Texas to break the world
without the friction of wheels on the ground. Air acceleration record: 0-300km/h (186mph) in
13.63s. Acceleration is not the same as speed.
is much denser at ground level than at high
Acceleration is a product of the V8 engine’s
altitude, meaning cars have to be ultra- torque (force) divided by the Venom GT’s
aerodynamic (hence the rocket shape) and mass (ie a = f/m). The Venom accelerates so
quickly because its lightweight 1,244kg
produce insane amounts of thrust. The Aussie
(2,743lb) frame is cranked by 160kg/m
Invader 5R, one of the land-speed contenders, (1,155lb/ft) of torque. The heavier Bugatti
solved this problem by sitting its driver atop what Super Sport loses to the Venom GT in a sprint,
but can hold the road at higher maximum speeds.
is essentially a 16-metre (52-foot) rocket engine
capable of producing 276 kilonewtons (62,000
pounds) of thrust. Wheels are another huge Other speed demons… on land
challenge, as they need to rotate at unimaginable
speeds while sticking fi rmly to the ground. The
Fastest wind-powered car
solution is tireless wheels machined from either
titanium or aluminium, which boast a very high Ecotricity Greenbird, 203km/h (126mph)
strength-to-weight ratio. The Aussie Invader’s
Fastest motorcycle
aluminium wheels are built for 10,000 rotations
per minute. When the Thrust SSC broke the
Ack Attack, 606km/h (377mph)
sound barrier, the shockwave ‘fl uidised’ the
sandy soil beneath the vehicle, making it diffi cult Fastest piston engine car
to steer. Next-gen rocket cars are using computer
Speed Demon, 743.5km/h (462mph)
modelling to muffl e those vibrations.
WORLD’S FASTEST
PRODUCTION CAR
The fi rst thing you notice about
the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
isn’t its Lamborghini good
looks, but its Tyrannosaurus
roar. The Bugatti’s
16-cylinder engine delivers
over 1,200 horsepower,
ripping from 0-100
kilometres (60 miles) per
hour in a staggering 2.5
seconds. The only thing
Weight preventing the Bugatti
1,888kg (4,162lb)
from pushing over 431
Transmission
kilometres (268 miles) per
7-speed
hour is the rubber tyres,
Price which would tear apart
£1.5mn ($2.5mn) from the force. And at
£26,000 ($42,000) for four
tyres, it’s better to be safe
than sorry! To deliver that
VEYRON
SUPER SPORT Top speed (restricted) much power, the eight-litre
415km/h (258mph) engine gulps down fuel; at full
Acceleration pelt, the Bugatti would drain its
0-97km/h (60mph) in 2.5 seconds entire tank in about 12 minutes.
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