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US fighter pilots have asked not to fly the military’s 190 F-22 Raptors because of oxygen problems with the $143million (£88m) stealth fighter, an Air Force leader has revealed. Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, told reporters that a ‘very small’ number of pilots . . . → Read More: US pilots refuse to fly $143m F22 because of ‘lack of oxygen in cockpit’ The rear of the Royal Navy’s new £3 billion aircraft carrier dwarfed everything around her as she took to the seas today. A 300ft barge battled 30 knot winds as it carried two sections of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s 1,820 tonne stern out of Portsmouth Naval Base in Hampshire. They will now make a four . . . → Read More: Stern of Royal Navy’s new £3billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth on its way to Scotland  One comment  strange/offbeat, Technology/Science  BAE Systems, Caroline Dinenage, Claudia Roberts, commissioned in 2016, decommissioned, dockyard, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Queen Elizabeth, hulls and flight, North Sea, Portsmouth, Round Tower in Old Portsmouth, Royal Navy, Scotland, ship’s maker, warship With its fuselage torn to shreds and emergency workers seemingly looking on in vain, there was surely only one fate for the passengers of this Boeing 727. Just as well, then, that those on board were only crash-test dummies used for a groundbreaking experiment into the effects of jet disasters. The impact was . . . → Read More: Passenger jet is crashed into the Mexican desert ON PURPOSE . . . all in the name of air SAFETY Leave a comment Technology/Science aircraft, black box, Boeing, Boeing 720, Boeing 727, crashed, David Glover, Discovery Channel and Channel 4, emergency workers, FAA, fuselage torn, helicopter flies alongside, human body., jet disasters., Mexican desert, Mojave Desert, NASA teamed up with the FAA, Passenger jet, passengers, recording technology, roundbreaking experiment, Sanjay Singhal One news station boards the new super-efficient Boeing 787 Dreamliner as the plane takes a tour of the Russian skies. (Scroll down for video) Engineers say the Dreamliner is around 20 per cent lighter, 20 per cent more fuel efficient, and faster than other aircraft in its class. The new plane’s basic structural . . . → Read More: We sneaks onboard new Boeing 787 Dreamliner A 1959 Mini that was kept in storage until last year is expected to fetch £15,000 at auction this month. This classic Mini is expected to fetch between £12,000-£15,000 at auciton later this mont What is thought to be the world’s oldest unrestored Mini is expected to fetch about £15,000 when it is . . . → Read More: Oldest unrestored Mini set to fetch £15,000 Imagine hopping on the Tube in London on your way to work in the morning – and getting off near your office in New York City just three-quarters of an hour later. If the designers of one revolutionary idea for the public transport of the future are right, that’s just what we could be . . . → Read More: Round the world in just six hours: Vacuum tubes could be used for super-fast public transport This ultimate version of the UK’s greatest-ever supercar is expected to fetch more than £3million when it is sold off in California. The 1997 McLaren F1 GTR is a race car based on the iconic 240mph F1 model, the fastest production car to ever come out of England. And the model on offer is . . . → Read More: Supercar expected to fetch £3million at auction… and it can’t even be driven on roads Leave a comment strange/offbeat, Technology/Science 1997, 2012 Bonhams Auction, 240mph, 28 GTRs, 6-litre V12 engine, 600bhp, California, Donington, F1, greatest-ever supercar, Gulf Team Davidoff, Jay Leno, Laguna Seca tracks, Mark Osborne, McLaren F1 GTR, Nurburgring, production line, Rowan Atkinson., supercar With her shiny body and smooth curves, this £15-million superyacht is a real wealth symbol. The Adastra, unveiled today in China, is the new floating pleasure palace of billionaire businessman Anto Marden who commissioned its construction five years ago. Designed by Sussex-based yacht designer John Shuttleworth, the Adastra is so high-tech, it can even . . . → Read More: The $15m billionaire’s superyacht that took five years to build in China by Sussex boat designers Microsoft and Google are spearheading a drive to speed up the entire world wide web. The letters ‘HTTP’ are familiar to all web users as part of web addresses – for instance, in http://www.the-salfordian.com- but the 15-year-old method of delivering webpages to your screen is in need of an update. The Internet Engineering Task . . . → Read More: A speed boost for the whole web? Microsoft and Google working on new technology that will ‘supercharge’ every site Microsoft will unveil a stripped-down ‘Xbox Lite’ next year, priced as low as $100, a well-connected blogger has claimed The company was widely rumoured to be on the verge of unveiling a next-generation Xbox machine – but that will not appear until after 2013. The XBOX 360 The ‘stripped down’ machine will have . . . → Read More: Microsoft could unveil $100 Xbox Lite next year (but that means no ‘real’ new console until after 2013) The American military have presented the world with a new weapon, informally named the heat ray or microwave cannon. The “Active Denial System” is a non-lethal weapon primarily designed for crowd control. A video was uploaded on YouTube of the US military testing a new super high frequency (SHF) weapon. Rumors have long been . . . → Read More: Microwave weapon: ‘Heat ray’ crowd dispersal cannon unveiled Skydiving daredevil Felix Baumgartner is more than halfway toward his goal of setting a world record for the highest jump. He’s aiming for nearly 23 miles this summer. The record is 19.5 miles. Mr Baumgartner lifted off Thursday for a test jump from Roswell, New Mexico, aboard a 100-foot helium balloon. He rode inside . . . → Read More: Skydiver leaps 13 miles from the edge of space at 354mph (and it takes him just 8 minutes to hit the ground) Leave a comment strange/offbeat, Technology/Science commercial jets, Croatia, daredevil, entire jump, Fearless Felix, Felix Baumgartner, Joe Kittinger, jumped, Millau Viaduct, Mission Control, monitored his flight, Nasa, New Mexico, parachute cords., parachuted, Red Bull, Roswell, safe landing, Skydiving, Skydiving daredevil, southern France, Trish Medalen
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