From supercars to spacecraft

From supercars to spaceships - these machines are "burn" money faster than others - gasoline.

10. Bugatti Veyron


cost per mile (1 mile = 1, 6 km): $ 18

The Bugatti has always been an expensive toy. $ 350,000 will cost the car itself. 36 cents per mile for gasoline seems not so exorbitant price, but the more mileage, the more costly car maintenance

9. Queen Mary 2


Cost per mile: $ 245

The vessel can simultaneously accommodate 2640 passengers. This is $ 0, 092 per mile per passenger, excluding the cost of service and command.

Every hour, the Queen Mary 2 burns about three tons of fuel. Each ton costs $ 650. Taking into account all costs, every hour of the ship costs $ 7350. During the cruise ship is moving at a speed of about 30 miles per hour.

8. Air Force One (the presidential airplane)


Cost per mile: $ 306, 78

Cost of the flight of the US presidential plane - about 180 thousand dollars. The flight, for example, from Los Angeles to New York takes 4 hours 47 minutes. The distance between the airports in these cities is 2806 4 miles.

Plus escort.

In the year goes from 1, 4 to 1, 8 billion dollars.

7. Spacecraft


Cost per mile: $ 390

Spaceship costs slightly more expensive than Obama's plane. The cost of the ship is about $ 200 billion, the number of miles for which they are designed - some 500 million. It receives $ 390 per mile.

6. The International Space Station


Cost per mile: $ 484, 65

At least, that was three years ago.

5. crawler transporter NASA


Cost per mile: $ 502, 80

Transportation spacecraft is not cheap.

There are two copies of the conveyor. A total ease in 47 years of existence, they have done about 3400 miles. One gallon of fuel is enough to drive less than 13 meters. To manage each of these machines require highly specialist team of 30 people.

4. Launch Saturn V


Cost per mile: $ 2,400

This spacecraft, which Neil Armstrong made a flight to the moon. Its engine runs on liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

3. The carrier of the "Nimitz»


Cost per mile: $ 2626, 81

160 million a year spent only on staff salaries.

If we add to this the cost of fuel and maintenance facilities, the leaves about $ 400 million a year. Plus the cost of the aircraft carrier - $ 4, 5 billion. Partition on years of service (40 years) and $ 530 million per year or $ 1.45 million per day.

2. Dragsters class Top Fuel


Cost per mile: $ 21,000

This includes the short life of the car, and the need for constant change of parts and fuel consumption.

1. Lunar rover program «Apollo»


Cost per mile: $ 5, 9 billion

To this rover has done its 18 miles, it had to first be transported to the moon. Given the development of the device, which cost 17, 2 billion dollars in 1969, it receives $ 5, 9 billion a mile in terms of money in 2013.

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