Articles and Comments - Outdoors / VEHICLES

A list of articles and advice pieces dealing with all kinds of vehicles: aircraft, vessels and land transport means for conventional, sporting as well as military use.

The Citroên - Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition - It is quite an experience to travel by truck, and drivers have a whole and fascinating subculture of their own; sometimes, overlanding or navigating with trucks over terrain becomes quite difficult and dangerous.

Cliché: Don't Tell Me How To Live My Life - We have to teach if we are asked to, but we are always more fortunate whenever we can learn from others; so, to think that one cannot learn from others is to condemn oneself to disgrace.

How Do The Brakes Of An Airplane Work? (I) - Airplanes have various, often redundant braking systems that the pilot should know.

Survival Tips And Advice: Have A Way To Reload Batteries - Among the great variety of things that we can take on our adventure trips or outdoor activities in general, battery chargers are among the most functional; today it is possible to purchase solar battery chargers of all sizes and for all purposes.

Aviators And Observers - Whenever a small aircraft is used for reconnaisance and observation, no matter what the purpose may be, some precautions should be taken into account.

A Survival Knife For Vehicles - All sorts of problems and even survival situations could unfold while you are travelling inside a car, a boat or an aircraft; a good survival knife could become then your best companion, but it must be of adequate design.

Guns In The Hands Of Pilots - The attacks of Sept 11, 2001 eventually landed handguns into some pilot's cockpits. Are these guns in the right hands?

Sunscreen For Your Car (I) - Did you know that you could be soaking up more damaging UV rays in a few hours in your car that uou do in a day at the beach?

Spotting Unsafe Windshield Replacements (I) - Windshields are safety equipment, rarely noticed or appreciated.

Prepare Your RV For Spring and Summer Travel With Window Film (I) - If you are an RVer, you will spend over five weeks and 2,700 miles in your coach this year.

Hard Economic Times, Expensive Gas and Oil Prices - No Problem (I) - Scooters offer a new, inexpensive, ecologically friendly way to travel.

A brief reflection on water for treks - Brief advice concerning the use of water during outdoor adventures.

Aircraft and submarines - Something to think about aircraft and submarines.

Think about your 4 x 4 truck - Your 4 X 4 should do something more than just reach the supermarket.

Your car - Something to think about teh value of your car.

How Does An Airplane Fly? - This article has been thought for all those who want to know what goes on an airplane as it flies, how its instruments, systems and parts work and how do they keep the thing up in the air.

Survival / Survival in Car Crashes and Road Accidents - Articles, ideas and tips from real-life that will teach you how to prevent or survive car or transit accidents.

Health / First aid, wilderness emergencies - Outdoor activities always entail some risks to your physical integrity. Learn about the techniques and suitable behaviour for surviving emergencies and disasters.

Outdoors activities / Survival - Articles based on real-life experiences. Practical and theoretical advice on survival in several levels of difficulty and diverse environments: polar zones, forests, forest, deserts, seas and oceans, extreme and hazardous sports, etc.

Geography and Outdoors / Navigation and Maps - Learn how to navigate using maps, a compass, gps systems or simply by observing natural formations. Find your way whenever you get lost in the wilderness.

Survival / Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Survival - Practical articles on the characteristics of nuclear, biological and chemical mass-destruction weapons, how they work and how to avoid their deadly effects. Their relationship to terrorism and pollution.

Survival / Survival Tales - Articles telling histories and tales about real survival experiences.

Outdoor Activities / Survival / Shelters and Bivouacs - How to build simple ones or full-sized, lodges, cabins and stone houses, useful for lengthy stays in isolated areas.

Survival / Combustibles and Fire - How to improvise combustibles outdoors. How to survive in a fire. Tips and techniques for making camp fires.


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