Retronaut http://www.retronaut.co The past is a foreign country. This is your passport. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Phantom Corsair, 1938 http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/phantom-corsair-1938/ http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/phantom-corsair-1938/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:50 +0000 Chris http://www.retronaut.co/?p=41767

“The Phantom Corsair is a  six-passenger coupé prototype automobile built in 1938. Designer Rust Heinz planned to put the car into limited production. However, Heinz’s death in a car accident in July 1939 ended those plans, leaving the prototype Corsair as the only one ever built.”

- Wikipedia

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Thank you to Supercars

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‘If London Were Like Venice: Oh! That It Were’
From Harmsworth’s Magazine (The London Magazine), August 1899
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Thank you to Forgotten Futures

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VI Oktyabr airship, 1923 I

VI Oktyabr airship, 1923 II

Moskovsky Khimik-rezinschik airship, 1924

Moskovsky Khimik-rezinschik airship, 1928

USSR-V2 Smolny airship, 1932

Crash of USSR-V2, 1933

Training airship USSR-V4 Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1933

Training airship USSR-V4 Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1933 II

USSR-V3 Krasnaya Zvezda, 1933

USSR-V3 Krasnaya Zvezda, 1933 II

USSR-V4 Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1933

USSR-V4 Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1933 II

USSR V-5 airship, 1933

USSR V-5 airship, 1933 II

USSR V-5 airship, 1934

USSR-V6 Osoaviachim airship, 1935

USSR-V6 Osoaviachim airship, 1935 II

USSR-V7bis Chelyuskinets, 1935

USSR-V8 airship, 1936

USSR-V6 Osoaviachim airship, 1937

Welcoming USSR-V6 Osoaviachim airship, 1937

USSR-V10 before its flight, 1938

Pobeda airship, 1945

Pobeda airship, 1945 II

Senior flight mechanic in Smolny

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Thank you to English Russia

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