Off Topic: Wheels, Gears, Turbines, Whatever...

Solar Impulse has completed the second leg of it's cross America journey. Solar Impulse landed safely in Texas on Thursday, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun.

Soyuz delivers crew to International Space Station in six hours

The International Space Station (ISS) recieved extra crew after a multinational crew launched on a Soyuz craft on a fast-track mission from Kazakhstan. The blast-off took place on May 28, 2013 carrying U.S astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano, of the European Space Agency. The crew docked at the ISS less than six hours after lift-off from Earth. Until this year, crews had to endure a two-day journey to the ISS. However, Russian engineers worked out new launch trajectories that now enable same-day dockings.

Three men smuggling cigarettes on a flight did not succeed in looking inconspicuous, after their specially adapted waistcoats were mistook by fellow passengers for "fat suits". The tobacco smugglers hid thousands of illegal cigarettes within deep disguised pockets but their peculiar appearance, with substantial objects bulging from beneath their jackets, led passengers and officers to become suspicious. This was at Leeds Bradford International in the UK.

New Zonda?

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/pagani-zonda-revolucion-unveiled

I am convinced that Russia is the world's most dangerous place to drive. I've seen too many videos over the years to think otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8i-1rmXzOWw

Lockheed Martin's 'Orion' spacecraft has reached a milestone. It has now finished structural testing and issaid to be structurally ready for its first launch in September, 2014. The capsule was tested to 110% of expected loads from such traumatic events as launch, separation and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

As Solar Impulse makes its way across the U.S the Mid West has been struck by some pretty wild weather. The hangar that the sun-powered aircraft was to be housed in in Missouri was damaged by storms recently so the team had to revert to a back-up plan, an inflatable hangar!

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Yes, they seemed to have thought everything through.

Can you picture your food flying coming at you after you order it? I mean really flying?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjygcZTxqz8&feature=player_embedded

Lol Kelly!

The 'Human Fly'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nlTsUQRjWNw#at=51

Recent eruptions from the Alaskan Pavlof Volcano has disturbed some flights for carriers servicing the Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula. On Tuesday and Wednesday the volcano was said to have produced ash plumes up to 8.5 km or 28,000 feet.

NASA reports “a great insertion orbit” for its newest orbiting telescope for studying the Sun’s dynamic temperature bands, which was drop-launched from a former airliner off the central California coast at 7:28 p.m. PDT June 27. The launch used a three-stage Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL booster dropped from Orbital’s L-1011 flying at 39,000 ft. about 100 mi. northwest of Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The mission operations center at NASA’s Ames Research Center reported that the solar array deployment and initial systems operations are all nominal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323419604578573330322578100.html?mod=e2tw#slide/3

Bombardier unveils new very high speed train in Italy. Very nice looking machine.