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	<title>Invisible Themepark &#187; Transport</title>
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		<title>Zeppelin Sub-Cloud or Spy Basket:  The Ultimate Secret</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/07/zeppelin-sub-cloud-or-spy-basket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Airships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zeppelins, despite their mammoth size, are by nature secretive modes of transport.  Even when they plied the skies on a regular basis, zeppelins were largely misunderstood by the general public.  I think I will puke if I read another book with an overly simplistic wrap-up like this: And the the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg effectively marked the end of the airship age.  The End. God bless my Time-Life Books Epic of Flight series book, The Giant Airships, but that&#8217;s pretty much the neat &#8216;n&#8217; tidy way they wrap up this whole, complicated saga.  Nothing is that neat.  There were many factors that contributed to the demise of airship travel (or I should say lull, since it is starting to come back) in the late 1930s.  One tiny factor, out of perhaps hundreds, is the fact that helium, the heavier but safer gas, came mainly from two sources:  the U.S. and Russia.  In other words, not in Germany.  But I digress. That said, let&#8217;s look at one super-cool, secret part of the airships:  the sub-cloud or spy basket. Sub-Cloud Facts As one crewman described the experience of being in a sub-cloud: There I hung, exactly as if I had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German U-Boat</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/06/german-u-boat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reading an excellent book called Iron Coffins, by Commander Herbert A. Werner, who served on five German u-boats between 1941 and 1945.  Judging by this sailor&#8217;s uniform and the quality of the photo, I&#8217;d guess that this is WWI.  But I liked it anyway and thought I should include it.  In fact, there&#8217;s something &#8220;non-German&#8221; about the image that I cannot put my finger on, even though the site&#8217;s caption claims that it&#8217;s German. What didn&#8217;t I know about u-boats?  Mostly everything.  For any reader with even a scant knowledge of boats and subs, none of this will be news&#8211;but it was news to me.  Here are some things I&#8217;ve picked up so far: By 1944-45, the u-boat losses skyrocketed.  I&#8217;m not quite sure I believe the chart in Iron Coffins, but here goes anyway:  600-700 boats lost during that period.  Can anyone verify?  That sounds huge. U-boats and subs in general do most of their operations top-side.  They only go under when they absolutely need to be hidden. Amount of diesel fuel was sufficient to take them far into the North Atlantic and return, though fuel stops did sometimes happen. The goal was to rack up tonnage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astute Class Submarine Cutaway</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/06/astute-class-submarine-cutaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cutaways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Astute class submarines are British Royal Navy nuclear fleet submarines. Click For Giant Size Cutaway of Astute Submarine Towards the Stern 70 &#8211; Ship&#8217;s Office 68 &#8211; Forward Hydroplane 78 &#8211; High Pressure Air Bottles Toward Midships 45 &#8211; Port Side Communications Office 60 &#8211; Control Room Consoles 62 &#8211; Senior Ratings Bunks 58 &#8211; Senior Ratings Bathrooms]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the 1935 Flying Boat Cutaway</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/04/inside-the-1935-flying-boat-cutaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cutaways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking inside the Popular Mechanics 1935 &#8220;Flying Boat&#8221;: Kitchen Welsh rarebit coming right up.  Note the ladder leading up to the wing. Bar The cover is sharp and crystal-clear.  It&#8217;s my scanner that blurred the picture.  A real-life bartender whipping up a gin gimlet for a guy in a suit. Sleeping Quarters Except for those bunk beds, which you are undoubtedly sharing with a stranger, a most civilized way to travel.]]></description>
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		<title>Cutaway 1935 Flying Boat Airplane</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/04/cutaway-1935-flying-boat-airplane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cutaways]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reproduce this Popular Mechanics cover of April 1935 in all of its ball-throbbing glory&#8211;because that is the only way to describe the muscularity of 1930s popular journalism.  There is nothing I don&#8217;t like about this cover.  I love the orange and blue contrast, the NRA Code logo in the bottom left, the typography, and most of all, the cutaway airplane. Cutaways &#8211; you can get lost in them, imagining yourself inside.  Models, miniatures, cutaways &#8211; pretty much a lost art today. I will pick apart this cutaway in separate posts.  See here to look further inside the Flying Boat airplane.]]></description>
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		<title>Tramway</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/04/tramway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sky buckets, gondolas, sky-trams&#8211;technically, aerial tramways&#8211;are the most visible invisible transport around. Contrast the Disneyland Matterhorn tramway from the 1950s&#8230; With the real aerial tramway at Zermatt, Switzerland&#8211;also the Matterhorn&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Pneumatic Tubes</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/04/pneumatic-tubes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2009/04/pneumatic-tubes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Pneumatic Tubes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pneumatics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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