Tank suspension over bridge

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Two more certain ways to maim your self! (or worse!) The carrier one looks to be sped up, the tank driver maybe should have?

When faced with danger, it's fight or flight. He chose wrong.

[Mike Cecil]

Yes, Lynn, the standard response when coming over the top of a knife edge or step is to hit the accelerator as the tank noses over and the weight starts coming down onto the forward end of the tracks, thereby avoiding an 'end over end' as happened in the film. Part of my Leopard AS1 driver's course was learning to negotiate a knife edge and a vertical drop & climb. On one pass, I managed to gently bring the tank to a neat halt at the top, in perfect balance!

Mike

[REL]

Soviet BT7 I believe. Very high speed and originally a close copy of one of the two(?) American Christie tanks bought by the Soviets in the early 1930s. Christie designed them to run without tracks as well as with. Naturally Christie got short shrift in his own country; didn't know anyone at the War Department?

Inspired the British Cruiser tanks of course.

Christie was also the inventor of front wheel drive for cars, though I suppose Cugnot's steam truck of 1769 is the true pioneer.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...=Christie+tank