Category: Aviation
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Simulator to replicate the full driving experience, down to every bump in the road
Motion Simulation TL1 replicates the full driving experience, down to every bump in the road. Race drivers, gaming enthusiasts and those seeking the ultimate and most realistic simulation experience have a new serious toy. Here is a simulator with an innovative approach to racing, flight and first-person-shooter Simulation. Housing the world’s first 180 degree, spherical…
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American newspaper to send a reader into space
Boston’s #1 daily newspaper to send a reader into space Metro, Boston’s #1 daily newspaper, became the first newspaper to offer a reader the chance to visit space when it launched its ‘Race for Space’ competition in March. It partnered with sister titles across the world and SXC to offer one of Metro’s millions of…
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The most popular and the worst seats on a plane: poll
Flight comparison site Skyscanner revealed the results of its poll of 1,000 travelers’ seat preferences. The poll questioned respondents on their seat preferences (aside from extra legroom seats) including which section and whether they chose window, middle or aisle seats. The poll also delved deeper to find out if choices were influenced by lucky numbers…
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to establish its second spaceport in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi to New Mexico in no more than an hour Branson’s Virgin Galactic to build Spaceport Abu Dhabi Virgin Galactic, the world’s first space tourism company, will establish its second base in Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides appointed Steve Landeene, an executive director of the Spaceport America project (from 2007 to 2010), with the…
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Smithsonian – the new home for the world’s most traveled spaceship
Smithsonian welcomes Discovery to space collection Space shuttle Discovery, the world’s most traveled spaceship, moved into its new home at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in northern Virginia. Discovery, mated to a specially modified Boeing 747, landed at Washington-Dulles International, where it was de- mated from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and made…
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Gyroplanes: PAL-V flying car could be the future of personal transportation
The ideea of flying car is in the air and it becomes clear that it is shaping the future of urban mobility. After the US-based Terrafugia said they had successfully tested their own street-legal plane called the “Transition”, the gyrocopter of a Dutch company has just proved it can handle the skies as well as…