Supersonic passenger aircraft A2

The team of British engineers in the project LAPCAT supported by the European Space Agency, took on the development of cleaner and supersonic passenger aircraft, code-named A2, which can speed 5 times faster than the speed of sound.
The aircraft will perform flights between Europe and Australia in less than five hours.
Length A2 aircraft will be 143 meters and the capacity - up to 300 passengers. Maximum speed of A2 aircraft 6400 kilometers per hour, which is five times faster than the speed of sound.
For comparison, the length of the popular passenger aircraft Boeing-737 total 36.5 meters and the length of the largest A380 aircraft.
The supersonic airliner A2 will fly on liquid hydrogen, which is more environmentally safe. Without refueling supersonic airliner will be able to fly up to 20 thousand kilometers.
The cost of a ticket 3500 pounds (or almost 7 thousand dollars).

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Dirigible Manned Cloud

Dirigible "Manned Cloud" - elite flying hotel, which rises in the sky next year. Concept developed by the renowned French designer Jean-Marie Massaud, in conjunction with the French aerospace research centre ONERA.

At two decks airship can accommodate 40 guests and 15 support staff. In addition to comfortable cabins in "Manned Cloud" is a restaurant, a library, gym and spa salon. The average speed of the airship 130 km/h and a maximum 170 km/h.

New products and services Apple (Macworld 2008 Expo)

At Macworld Expo 2008 in San Francisco, the main event was the presentation of fine notebook Macbook AIr.
In addition to Mac Book Air, the head of Apple, Steve Jobs introduced several other very interesting new products:
The most delicate laptop in the world Macbook Air easily placed in the envelope.

«Thinnovation» = Thin+Innovation - slogan for a new laptop Macbook Air.

"Time Capsule" is a wireless device to backup data.
"Time Capsule" is an external hard disk controller combined with the wireless Wi-Fi standard IEEE 802.11n. New versions will be with a 500 GB hard drive and 1 TB at a price of $ 300 and $ 500.
The company Apple announced a new service providing - iTunes Movie Rentals. Videos provided such studios as 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema.

The company also introduced an updated version of the software for Apple TV.

For mobile phone iPhone in the exhibition Macworld Expo 2008 has released a new version of "firmware" with the index 1.1.3M.

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