We covered a stratospheric airship in 2009 They continue to make progress with the STS-111 airship and advance the program closer to hosting customer demonstrations. The platform has performed to the initial specifications they set out for, and they will continue to pursue our ultimate goal of producing a stratospheric platform to serve a number …
The World Bank is the most commonly used source of statistics on poverty. They define poverty as having purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita income from 2005 statistics of less than $1.25 per day. There has been criticism of the 2005 PPP statistics based on the collection of data for China and India from cities …
EasyJet has announced the use of a nanocoating by a company called tripleO on its planes for a range of benefits, not least fuel savings and carbon footprint reduction. The coating reduces drag by up to 39%. TripleO established thirty-years ago, has a twenty-year heritage as a surface protectant for the US military, but it …