A group of farmers have come up with an ingenious way of recycling the thousands of external fuel tanks jettisoned by U.S planes during the Vietnam War - by turning them into river boats and canoes.
Decades after the Vietnam War, external aluminum fuel tanks from U.S. aircraft are still being ingeniously repurposed by modern-day Vietnamese as canoes for river transportation. The origin of these ...
Over the last 35 years, we have done many high-mileage open-ocean transits. In the early days, the boats were 30 to 45 feet with limited fuel. Now, with the big sport-fishing boats being 60, 70 and 80 ...