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| 10:40 Fri 25 Jul 2008 |
Tag: Magazines
These items have all been tagged with the tag "Magazines", You can see other tags in the Tag Cloud| GHOST SHIP - THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT COMES TO SHORE |
| 2007-02-08 03:25:19 |
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The boat you see here is a 30-foot concept from designer David Borman. He has designed and developed it to be the efficient future of transport. "That Wally powerboat, which I think is $20 million for the 50 footer, it sucks down something like 2,000 gallons of fuel an hour and it only does 70mph. I'll be using less than a tenth of that amount of fuel going twice as fast." "My tag line is: helicopter speed at a powerboat price. It's the ultimate status symbol, but it's got a practical side too. I love the Bahamas, love the Tortugas, but they're between 130 and 200 miles from here in Miami. If I were to have a conventional yacht that could only do 25mph and I've got a 3-day weekend with the kids, I might as well forget it. By the time I got there it'd be time to turn around and come back home. Scale up to a 64 footer Sea Phantom and you'd literally be able to cross the Gulf of Mexico with impunity. It would cruise at 150mph, you'd have room for several staterooms, and you could walk around in the wings. It would be fast enough to run from Key West to Cuba in 20 minutes, when Cuba opens up. It would literally take you longer to get out of the harbor at Key West and back into Havana than it would to make the actual passage." Like a chimera between a stealth bomber and a submarine, the design is sculpted around the central body airfoil. "I was able to draw on NASA research, free over the Internet, from the '60s to integrate into my philosophy", David acknowledges. "I had to put a backbone on it to support the tail, and it just so happened that I had just seen a photograph of a children's model of the late 1920s Bugatti Atlantique, so I lifted it almost directly from there." Borman has invested some serious time and effort in his dream project – thousands of man hours and $1.3 million in the project. But the rewards are potentially massive. "The ultimate objective is passenger transport. For $2.5 million I'll have maritime transport capabilities similar to a $10-12 million aircraft. Not only at a fraction of the purchase price, but also at a fraction of the operating expense and I'm not encumbered by the FAA's rules. Airports are getting backed up; they've run out of expansion room. Aircraft can hardly get any bigger because the airports can't get any larger. 60% of the world's population live within 300 miles of a coastline; I could envision dozens of these just running up and down the Florida coast alone. It could scale up to 90 feet if someone wanted to carry 100 passengers at high speed. It's a whole new world of transport." The first customer Sea Phantoms will be 50 feet long, cost $2.5 million and be capable of cruising at 140mph with 24 people on board. By Wes Siler. Exclusive online extract from Intersection Magazine. |
| COOLHUNTER LAUNCHING A MAGAZINE |
| 2007-01-30 04:15:51 |
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The link you are looking for has been purposely left out as we are embarking to launch our global magazine. This post will be featured in a larger story in the magazine. The Cool Hunter is expanding from cyberspace and onto international news stands with the much anticipated launch of the Cool Hunter magazine. The new publication comes hot on the heels of a number of exciting projects currently in the works that are fast establishing the Cool Hunter as a coveted global brand, including a Cool Hunter TV show and a series of Cool Hunter books. The website already has over 1.6 million page views a month, (425,000 unique visitors per month) and the new projects are set to at least double that figure. (International editions of the Cool Hunter website are currently in the works, London, Australia, Canada etc) Bound for the news stands in late 2007, the new monthly glossy Cool Hunter magazine will also be distributed throughout major international newsagents/bookstores, the world's top boutique hotels as well as our favorite stores and retailers across the globe. A fascinating read, the magazine will be brimming with feature length articles that showcase the best of cool from around the world. The Cool Hunter magazine launching late 2007, a must for those in the know. Don't miss it. Interested international publishers and advertisers can contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
