ZEHST - Paris-Tokyo in two and a half hours on hypersonic jet
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Fancy traveling from Paris to Tokyo in two and a half hours? Do you yearn for the Concorde days? Aerospace group EADS, owner of planemaker Airbus, thinks it has the answer -- a hypersonic jet that flies above the atmosphere, yet takes off from a regular runway. "It is not a Concorde but it looks like a Concorde, showing that aerodynamics of the 1960s were very smart," Jean Botti, EADS' chief technical officer, said.
By flying above the atmosphere and using biofuel to get the plane off the ground initially, the group hopes to avoid the supersonic boom and pollution Concorde was notorious for.
Super Guppy
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The Super Guppy aircraft was acquired by NASA from the European Space Agency under an International Space Station barter agreement. Manufactured by Airbus Industries, ESA supplied the aircraft to offset the cost to NASA of carrying ESA experiment equipment to the station as part of two future Space Shuttle flights. The new Super Guppy is the latest version in a long line of Guppy cargo aircraft used by NASA. Guppy aircraft were used in several past space programs, including Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab, to transport spacecraft components. The first Guppy aircraft was developed in 1962, designed specifically for NASA operations by Aero Spacelines of California.
Friends With The Wind And Sun
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Our dependency on gizmos and gadgets leads us innovate and come up with portable solutions for charging them. Even on a hike in the wilderness, a GPS device holds more prestige than a compass! With The Source is a device that plans on harnessing the solar and wind energy to tank up enough juice for your everyday gadgets. It even incorporates a powerful LED Torch to light up the camping nights.
Ansip: Estonia and Kazakhstan should cooperate in transit, information technologies and energy
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Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev agreed at their meeting on Wednesday in Tallinn that there is great potential in the economic cooperation of the two states concerning transit, information and communication technology and oil shale energy industry, LETA/Delfi reports.
The first kazakh engineer
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Every era has heroes as figures who surely left their experience, imprint on life. One of the eminent sons of the Kazakh people, representative of Kazakh intelligentsia was Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpayev,the first Kazakh railway service engineer and builder of the Turksib. He was born in the family of a poor cattleman-nomad on May 1879 in Kabanbai region of Taldy-korgan oblast.
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