Malaysia plane MH370: Robotic sub mission aborted

The robot submarine sent to search for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has had its first mission cut short. It began scouring the bed of the southern Indian Ocean to try to determine whether signals detected last week by sound-locating equipment were from the plane's flight reco...

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Australia's Sydney gets second airport

Australia has approved the construction of a second international airport in Sydney at the cost of $2.4bn (£1.4bn). The new facility will be located at Badgerys Creek, in western Sydney. Planning and design work would start immediately, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, with construction expected ...

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Only Flying B-29 Superfortress Has Arrived At New Home [feedly]

  

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Only Flying B-29 Superfortress Has Arrived At New Home
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Vintage Flying Museum At Fort Worth's Meacham Airport Will Be Home To The CAF's B-29 FIFI And B-24 Diamond Lil The Commemorative Air Force's (CAF) iconic B-29 Superfortress, FIFI, the only flying B-29 in the world, returned from her Florida tour on Monday to join the B-24, Diamond Lil, at their temporary new home in Fort Worth, Texas. The airplane arrived at the Vintage Flying Museum (VFM) at 1930 local time accompanied by the famous C-45 Expeditor, Bucket of Bolts, also making Meacham International Airport its new home.
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Russians Look To Colonize The Moon [feedly]

  

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Russians Look To Colonize The Moon
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Says It Will Have A Permanent Base 'Up And Running' By 2040 As Russia was celebrating the anniversary of the first spaceflight of Yuri Gagarin on Saturday, Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin made a bold statement: "We are coming to the moon forever."
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Aviastar produces first set of MC-21 fuselage panels [feedly]

  

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Aviastar produces first set of MC-21 fuselage panels
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Russian airframer Aviastar has manufactured the first set of fuselage panels for the Irkut MC-21 twinjet.
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Gripen vote: how people power could ruin Saab’s $3bn Swiss deal [feedly]

  

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Gripen vote: how people power could ruin Saab's $3bn Swiss deal
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The Swiss Government has agreed to spend billions of dollars replacing the air force's 1970s-era fighters with modern Swedish jets. There is only one problem: the deal has to go to a referendum for the people to approve. Could a centuries-old politic…
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Google enters UAV market by acquiring Raburn-led Titan Aerospace [feedly]

  

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Google enters UAV market by acquiring Raburn-led Titan Aerospace
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Online search and services company Google has acquired Titan Aerospace in a bid to develop a solar-powered unmanned air vehicle (UAV) designed to operate as a high-altitude communications relay and surveillance system.
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New UAV spotted over Damascus - IHS Jane's 360 [feedly]

  

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New UAV spotted over Damascus - IHS Jane's 360
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IHS Jane's 360

New UAV spotted over Damascus
IHS Jane's 360
The UAV was featured in a video posted on YouTube by an opposition group on 10 April. The footage purportedly shows the aircraft carrying out surveillance over the eastern suburbs of Damascus during a heavy bombardment by government forces.
This Indigenous Iranian UAV Is the Poor Man's Predator Drone

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