On this Day 1842 the worlds first Amphibious Bus Attack Boat (AB-AB) was driven/launched at the #RAFLuton Broom Lake test facility, Captain Horace "Shippers" Nelson and a crew of 152 conducted a successful 10month test cruise.pic.twitter.com/t5gHzVu5Zq
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This caused Parliament much headache when bringing in new regulations/law - should it follow boat regs or bus regs? or both? In the end they decided it came under flying regulations. It was the hovercraft of its day with law writing.
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Flexible to have diesel engine (MOT certified), steam engine and rotors in a single vehicle to take land, sea and air route as per the situation.
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That's a DUKW.
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Erm, that's a Dassault Rafale guys.
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think you find its a Sukhoi Su-30MKI
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The first mate was Blakey "I'll Get You" Butler, who regularly snorted the fuel tanks.pic.twitter.com/eBrTWqj05n
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Came to see Blakey, leaving satisfied.
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