British Airways are looking at ways that 3D printing technology could improve punctuality and reduce carbon emissions by bypassing the need to fly spare parts out to its fleet around the world. The thinking is that 3D printers located at airports around the world, could be used...
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial in dramatic white stone dominates the surrounding landscape from the top of Vimy Ridge. It marks the battlefield on which four divisions of Canadians* managed to dislodge three German divisions from their entrenched and fortified positions on the ridge over three days...
The Old Town Model Railroad Depot, a small model railway museum based in San Diego’s historic Old Town district, will remain open under new ownership. I can’t resist either a model railway or a good news story, so this is a welcome piece of news. The Depot,...
The Steam Dreams Rail Co are operating some trips in the Flying Scotsman timetable for 2020, offering the rare chance of travelling behind this iconic engine in full steam on the mainline at speeds of up to 75 mph. The Flying Scotsman, the last original remaining of...
We sort of know this, but a report published today by the Avis Budget Group, suggests that while car use remains as popular as it ever was, private car ownership looks set to decline over the next decade as consumers move to an access-driven, on-demand model for...
I came across this little ‘factoid’ in the latest edition of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s in-house magazine, Scuttlebutt*, which is a fascinating publication, well worth the annual museum membership fee on its own! It’s one of those ‘unknown unknowns’ as Donald Rumsfeld would say....
Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is the world's largest model railway, and its most popular too.
The museum ship SS John W. Brown, one of only two World War II ‘Liberty’ ships preserved and still operational*, is looking for a new home. The Liberty ships were the cargo-carrying workhorses of the Allied war effort. They were produced with conveyor belt efficiency in huge...
Hertz are offering a spectacular car rental option at some of its airport locations in the USA. Auto racing fans and car enthusiasts can rev up their ride with the 2020 Hertz-Hendrick Motorsports Camaro ZL1 and 2020 Hertz-Hendrick Motorsports Camaro SS in the signature Hertz yellow and...
The UK Space Agency confirmed last week that it will award £7.35 million to Virgin Orbit UK Limited, the UK branch of US launch operator Virgin Orbit, to enable horizontal launch of small satellites from Spaceport Cornwall at Newquay Airport. ‘Horizontal launching’ means taking a rocket to...
(This article was written by Duncan Walker, Senior Lecturer in Applied Aerodynamics at Loughborough University and first published in The Conversation.com. It is reproduced here under a Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-ND) The UK government plans to ban the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars by...
Aurora Expeditions, who specialise in expeditions to the polar regions, yesterday named their new ship, the Greg Mortimer, in a ceremony set against the snow-capped mountains of Ushuaia, Argentina. The new ship has a striking profile because she is the first passenger vessel in the world to...
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