With a 200cc lawnmower engine, a handmade propeller, and some spare paraglider parts (that he just happened to have kicking around?), Russian tinkerer Sergei Khvalin created a cross-country skiing ...

This is the original propeller spinner from Charles Lindbergh's Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis." While Lindbergh was flying the "Spirit" on its maiden flight from San Diego to Long Island on May 12, ...