Wired on the Top 10 worst aircraftComments ( Read more... )

Bring those old COBRA jet-gliders one step closer to reality. Ha, those Swiss. :-)

EDIT: A good deal more interesting than the other Swiss specimen of the week.

EDIT2: Conceptually, this FusionMan is roughly similar to the ol' Flying Titan Power Armor of the original Rifts RPG. Certainly more aerodynamically likely than other Rifts ideas or Tony ( Read more... )

Accidentally stumbled upon Swiss military propaganda.

Figure 1: PanzerGrenadiers
Figure 2: Ludicrously inefficient bilingual (trilingual?) operations.
Figure 3: Actually, pretty nifty quick-upper story entrances.
Figure 4: a consolation, the kids know the whole thing's a joke. EDIT: Relatively filthy narration, incidentally, but that's not really ( Read more... )

despotliz, remember that story you shared about the woman kicked off the Southwest Airlines plane for her scant clothing?

Well, Richard Branson gathered her up to publicise his Virgin America launch out of Las Vegas. Branson even donned a 'dog collar' for the event. ;-)

1. Cruise paparazzo found dead of suicide in Arizona. Fodder for Scientology conspiracy theorists, no doubt.

2. "biofuel" test for a 747 with Rolls-Royce engines. Interesting, I wish they'd say what 'biofuel' this is exactly. It would have to have quite a lot of oomph, so I'd suspect some sort of alchohol or ethanol.

Burma:
3.1 Burma & corruption ( Read more... )

1. All UK peeps should say hello to mahkara who is presently in London, for the next 3 months, slaving away at a business degree.

2. Loooong day yesterday, started at 4.00am! Ended 10.00pm! Still, it involved an awesome trip to Edwards AFB, and being such an aviation geek, I had to concentrate hard on my task of promoting electronics stewardship. After ( Read more... )

So, waywardbound blogged about someone who bought their very own Harrier jump-jet on eBay for $20,000.

This sparked some thoughts which quickly left Ray befuddled (apologies!). Mainly, given the purpose of the Harrier for the air forces that use it, and all the problems it has (which also casts reasonable doubt on the safety and efficiency of such aircraft as ( Read more... )

Here is my quandry ( Read more... )

Blue Angel crashes in South Carolina, pilot killed - last accident was in 1999. Honestly, I was wondering when this was going to happen.

1. Lufthansa’s A380s are due to arrive in New York and Los Angeles today.

2. Analysis continues on the violent mess in Zimbabwe. What has always puzzled me about regime loyalists like this is - surely they must know that Mugabe’s rule is on the wane, and they cannot realistically expect to perpetuate this regime past his era … so why the violence ( Read more... )