X-47B – US NAVY Joint UCAS-D to be unveiled late 2010
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Ryanair CEO’s growth-in-a-recession concept
The Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary, announced that he would close his only French base at Marseilles Airport from January 2011, following the commencement of legal proceedings against Ryanair’s Marseille base, where all of its 200 pilots and cabin crew work on Irish aircraft (i.e. Irish territory) and pay their taxes and social insurance contributions in Ireland where they receive their Irish pay. Here is a video shot in 2009 – Michael O’Leary’s vision about travelling by plane:
Skydiver dangles for 3 hours after chute gets caught in tree
Canadian Air Force CC-150 Polaris refuelling CF-18s
Oustanding views from homemade spacecraft!
This video features an American family that managed to send a balloon into space – up to 100,000 feet – and retrieve its camera which shot outstanding views from the upper stratosphere. Special thanks to Xavier (http://passiondesavions.blogspot.com) who provided the link to this amazing footage:
Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.
Video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into the
upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space.