Comments on Dark Roasted Blend: Unique Soviet Snowmobiles

Great post! Don't forget Bombardier's beautiful sn...

2008-01-28T13:31:00.000-08:00

Great post! Don't forget Bombardier's beautiful snow buses, some of which are still used for ice fishing in Canada. http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w90/sugarzebra/BRPBusPOTN.jpg

An interesting, but topical aside is the US prewar...

2007-12-14T14:15:00.000-08:00

An interesting, but topical aside is the US prewar entry for the Antarctic. The Antarctic Snow Cruiser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_snow_cruiser

Somewhere it now seems at the bottom deep sea buried.

in case you were wondering, the three b&w pictures...

2007-12-11T23:28:00.000-08:00

in case you were wondering, the three b&w pictures with the different variants of the one snow mobile , written in russian and translated as follows : passenger variant, business
variant, and "sanitary" variant ( or sterile).

great stuff. i wish that last tank/ship had been made.

Karamazov is absolutely right. The aerosled is Fin...

2007-12-09T04:55:00.000-08:00

Karamazov is absolutely right. The aerosled is Finnish. The German Wehrmacht never used the swastika on their vehicles. Trucks, tanks kubelwagens, etc., always used the standard German Cross.

Only in need, when there was aerial support, did they put a flag (with the swastika) over the tanks and trucks to signal them to Luftwaffe.

The Finnish used a blue swastika over a white background, as can be perceived from the black-and-white photograph.

That nazi aerosled is not nazi but Finnish. Finnis...

2007-12-09T02:51:00.000-08:00

That nazi aerosled is not nazi but Finnish. Finnish army was well prepared for snow operations and the use of the swastika in its armed forces comes earlier than the nazis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Finland