Showing posts with label Smallest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smallest. Show all posts

Sunday, November 21, 2010

The World’s Smallest Helicopter - GEN H-4


GEN H-4 is the world's smallest co-axial helicopter ever made.This is a Japanese designed and manufactured ultralight one-man helicopter. The total empty weight of this helicopter is only 155 lbs. Smallest helicopter in the world has two rotors turning in opposite directions to maintain stability, and four engines that enables a 30-minute flight with a top speed of about 56 miles per hour.

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Yes, you're right it is a quite interesting contraption! It is true that there is not much to see on the outside. The frame is 2 inch aluminum pipe bent and welded, with a fiberglass backpack and funny looking wheels. The controls are direct, like many gyrocopters. In front of the pilot attached to the control bar is the control panel with the throttle (altitude control), tachometer, ignition power, starter and yaw switches. The tools necessary for flight do not seem like much because they aren't. This is not only the lightest helicopter in the world, but it is the easiest to fly!

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Sark Island - Smallest Channel island Photos



Sark is the smallest of the four main Channel Islands. It lies in the English Channel, about 128km from England and about 32 km from the coast of Normandy. There are no cars on the island, and transport other than on foot consists of horse-drawn carriages, tractors and bicycles. The island is formed of steep, rocky cliffs, averaging about 90 m above sea level, rising to a center plateau. At its highest point a windmill can be found, dated 1571. In order to reach this plateau, passengers disembarking in the miniscule harbour must travel upwards through a rock-hewn tunnel made in 1866.





Greater Sark is connected to Little Sark by a narrow, paved isthmus known as La Coupee. Just 2.7 m wide, it has dizzying 90 m drops to either side. Although privately owned, its gardens, some of the finest in the Channel Islands, are open to the public.















This is delightful island, with gorgeous sandy beaches and coves around the coast, ensuring shelter from winds of any direction. There are woods filled with springtime bluebells, and over 600 different plants and wildflowers grow there. Seabirds nest on the cliffs, and birds of prey, songbirds and migrants enjoy its unspoiled landscape.





Horse-Drawn Carriages, Tractors and Bicycles


















Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The World's Smallest Snowman

You're looking at the tiniest snowman ever built. Well, it looks like a snowman, but this minuscule model about a fifth the width of a human hair is not made out of snow. It's constructed of two tiny tin beads that are usually used to calibrate an electron microscope, and welded together with platinum.

It's built by David Cox, a nanotech expert at the Quantum Detection Group of Britain's National Physical Laboratory. He's accustomed to working with such astonishingly small objects, and used his nano-particle manipulation tools to demonstrate the astonishing accuracy of his work.

He bathed the snowman in blue light to give us this entertaining, snow-blown image. The remarkable flourish of his smiling snowman is its little happy face, carved into the top orb using a focused ion beam. That's no small feat.



Thursday, April 8, 2010

Smallest Waist In The World - Cathie Jung




































Cathie Jung on "This Morning" Show.
Cathie is a beautiful woman born in 1937 who lives in Old Mystic, Conneticut, U.S.A. She is the mother of three children and married to Bob, an orthopedic surgeon. Cathie Jung has a tiny waist of 15 inches and she holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest waist of any currently living person. Several times Cathie and Bob flew to Tokyo in Japan for guest appearances on Japanese TV.

Of course Cathie is wearing her corset, as she has for virtually every hour of the day and night since 1983. The only time that she is not wearing the corset is probably the hour it takes her to shower and dry herself thoroughly.
Cathie is devoted to corset training, or what she also calls waist training.

Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture and experience the sensations of a very tight corset. Those who practice tightlacing are called tightlacers. Some tightlacers call the corsets they wear training corsets.

Cathie has suffered no ill effects from wearing a corset virtually 24 hours a day since 1983. In fact, it has bolstered her spinal support. Bob Jung says: "As for the ribs, you would be surprised by how much the chest is not impacted. Only the two lower ribs, but those are the so-called floating ribs, two on each side. Everything in the midriff is flexible. The bowels and the stomach are hollow.
One concern is dry skin and keeping the corset clean. The bidet is for Cathie a real blessing in the wintertime, when you don't need to shower every day. Showering all the time dries out the skin.

Cathie never has had surgery to help attain her waist. But it is not just about the waist size. It is the illusion that matters. The difference between the hips and the waist, the chest and the waist. It is all about accentuating the natural and beautiful curves of the female figure.