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Fastest car in the world
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
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THE fastest car ever built is slowly taking shape in Rosco McGlashan's Perth garage. He is preparing to better the 1228 km/h world land speed record in a rocket-powered showdown against a British team...It has three separate engine types crowded into...
Tags: Mr McGlashan, speed records, Afghanistan, Kabul, Rosco McGlashan, Rocket, Automobile, Drag racing, Imagine LSRV, Year of birth missing
NASA proposes robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 7 days ago
Credibility It would be the first aircraft ever to fly over another world. After entering the atmosphere in a capsule, the aircraft would deploy parachutes and unfold its wings and tail, before firing its rocket motor and flying around a mile above the surface of...
Tags: NASA, exploring mars, robotic rocket, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Environment, Rocket, Ares, Orion, Project Constellation, Human spaceflight, Mars, Technology Internet, Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle
Exploits of the Rocket Man
Icarus wanted to fly like the birds – so, his father Daedlus strapped a pair of wings made of feathers and wax on his back. Icarus went too close to the Sun and the wax melted bringing him down. That was a Greek myth – this is real life! The...
Tags: icarus, daedlus, rocket man yves rossy, travel, Gibraltar, Rocket, Feather, Yves, Greek mythology, Yves Rossy, rocket man
Political Report for Thursday, November 26, 2009
Sydney :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility In reality there is nothing urgent about it. Those on the opposition benches oppose for the sake of opposing and their speeches are full, frank and usually quite meaningless. One would have thought the former Minister of Maoridom Parekura Mamamia would...
Tags: rocket scientist, Australia, Sydney, Rocket, Barry Soper, Carbon finance, Rocketry, Carbon credit, Human Interest, Newstalk ZB
Hero pilot Hal Graham’s hard fall to earth
Crossville :: TN :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility On a chilly Halloween afternoon, a group of about 70 people huddled outside an aluminum hangar at Crossville Memorial Airport, a tiny airstrip some 70 miles west of Knoxville . They had come to honor the life of a 75-year-old charter pilot named Hal Graham...
Tags: Hal Graham, Crossville Memorial Airport, Crossville, Fixed-wing aircraft, Rocket, Aircraft, Jet pack, Ultralight aircraft, Experimental aircraft, Rocket-powered aircraft
Land speed record attempt in SA
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility Hakskeen Pan in the Kalahari, near the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park will be the site of a 2011 attempt to break the world land speed record. The news was announced in Bristol, England, on Tuesday, where the supersonic jet-fuelled racing car was on display.
Tags: land speed, speed record, race cars, world land, United Kingdom, Bristol, ThrustSSC, Rocket, Jet engine, Eurojet EJ200, Andy Greene, Sound barrier, Bloodhound SSC, Land speed record
Ex-broker bunkers down for real
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 9 days ago
Credibility Today, Townsley is a member of a whole community of similar missile site owners.
Tags: Burkina Faso, Lon, Politics, Human Interest, Missile silo, Nuclear warfare, Rocket
Supercar Set To Power Its Way to 1,000mph
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility He told Sky News Online it is not a question of whether the car will reach the coveted speed of 1,000mph, but when. "We are trying to go as far as modern technology will possibly allow. We are creating the most astonishing vehicle," he said. "This time...
Tags: World Land Speed Record, United Kingdom, Bristol, Rocket, ThrustSSC, Jet engine, Andy Greene, Land speed record, allnews, Richard Noble, Bloodhound SSC, Peroxides, Automobile, Rocket-powered aircraft, Wing Commander, Thrust, Eurofighter Typhoon, Hydrogen peroxide, Tracker, Spacecraft propulsion, Rocketry
5 killed, 7 inured in Landi Kotal rocket attac ...
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 10 days ago
Credibility At least five persons were killed and seven others sustained injuries in a rocket attack in Landi Kotal area of tribal Khyber Agency on Monday. According to details, a rocket fired from unidentified direction of mountainous area of the city landed near...
Tags: Landi Kotal, rocket attack, Pakistan, Peshawar, Rocket, Khyber train safari, Peshawar District, Landi, Khyber Agency, War Conflict, Disaster Accident
Star Wars-generation takes flight in the Southern Hemisphere
Dunedin :: New Zealand | 12 days ago
Credibility If Wellingtonian Clare Keenan has her way, her grandmother's ashes will shoot into space later this month, enclosed in New Zealand's first sub-orbital rocket. Her dream, to honour her gran's memory with a rocket launch, will be made possible by a couple...
Tags: New Zealand, Dunedin, Rocketry, Rocket, Rocket-powered aircraft, Human Interest
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