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Archive for July, 2009
Caravans get new power option
31, Jul 2009Owners of Cessna’s immensely successful 208 Caravan propjet now enjoy a new option for upping the power of their big high-wing singles from Blackhawk Modifications, a leading provider of turboprop upgrades.
Endeavour Is Home
31, Jul 2009Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth “Space shuttle Endeavour touched down at 10:48: a.m. EDT. at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Commander Mark Polansky is expected to make a brief statement on the runway after the post-landing walk-around of the shuttle. The post-landing news conference is set for approximately 1 p.m. and will air live on NASA Television. The crew’s news conference is set to begin at about 3:15 p.m. The astronauts return to Houston’s Ellington Field is tentatively set for about 5 p.m. Saturday. STS-127 was the 127th space shuttle mission, the 23rd flight for Endeavour and the 29th shuttle visit to the station.”
Schuyler’s interview — where he presumably will talk about his rescue after clinging to a boat motor for two days in a spot 35 miles south of Clearwater — airs on the show at 10 p.m. Aug. 18, reported by correspondent Bernard Goldberg …
God forbid TTAC should criticize someone for making an outrageous suggestion to get people to think (rethink?) their opinion about an auto-related issue. But you gotta wonder if the book “$20 per Gallon” is at least ten bucks too high in the hyperbole department. Still, credit where credit’s due. By setting sail on a ship fantasii, author, civil engineer (of all things) and Forbes reporter Chris Steiner has outed the environmental hairshirt wearers amongst us. Needless to say, The New York Times is chief amongst them. They’ve published a Q&A with Steiner that somehow manages not to lump-him-in with alien abduction deprogrammers—although the piece is filed under the Freakeconomics banner. Instead of demanding Steiner’s list of prescription drugs, the Gray Lady’s Annika Mengisen “asked him to give us his predictions for what our lives might look like with gas at $8 and $18 per gallon, respectively.” Fun!
- In: Automobile
- Tags: annika-mengisen, another-dumpster, Automobile, book, chris-steiner, crush-their, engine, hyperbole, lives, setting-sail, the-hyperbole
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Break a world record at Southampton show
31, Jul 2009World’s biggest speed dating event planned
- In: Boat
- Tags: 40s-had, biggest-speed, cowes-week, dating-event, extreme, model, now-sensibly, races-today, speed, starts-tomorrow, trailer, trailer-which
Entries flood in for Britain’s Got Biking Talent
31, Jul 2009Britain’s Got Biking Talent with Carole Nash is underway and we’ve had a vast array of entries covering all makes and models.
eAPIS help available in Federal Pavilion
31, Jul 2009Among the many great uses of private aircraft is international travel, and American pilots enjoy a variety of choices as close by as Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico-foreign nations as close as a single hop.
French giants battle the Atlantic
31, Jul 2009Two huge French trimarans race each other and the clock for the Transatlantic record
- In: Boat
- Tags: america, britain, classic-rally, clock, died-at-home, each-other, festival, group, mylor, nautic, nautic-global, rally, the-early, trimarans-race