New elongated Boeing 747-8 debuts in Paris

New elongated Boeing 747-8 debuts in Paris. Boeing Co's 747-8 Intercontinental, the new elongated passenger version of its legendary jumbo jet, made its international debut on Sunday, showing its distinctive silhouette abroad for the first time.
The high-profile landing of Boeing's new 747 at the Paris Air Show -- three months after its first flight -- marks a show of engineering strength by the world's second-largest plane maker in a competition for control of the wide-body market.

Shuttle endeavour landing

shuttle endeavour landing. Space Shuttle Endeavour completed its last landing ever at 2:35 a.m. ET on June 1.
 The late-night touchdown marks the end of a 16-day mission that saw the completed construction of the International Space Station and the installation of a two-billion dollar antimatter detector.
Shuttle Atlantis is already sitting on the launch pad, awaiting its July blastoff date, which will conclude NASA's shuttle missions.

Japanese Auto Rickshaw

Everything old is new again for one Japanese manufacturer, which has unveiled an electronic version of a rickshaw.
The "Meguru" is a three-wheeled, three-seat compact vehicle whose single lithium-ion battery allows for a maximum speed and range of 40 kilometers (25 miles) per hour, although the number of batteries could be increased for a longer ride.

Giants Struggle For Water Territory

 The port of Hamburg serves about half of all exports and imports of Germany. And as the German economy is one of the strongest in the world, its ships must too have gigantic proportions. The port operates year-round, 24 hours a day, non-stop, but some ships, especially the large ones, still try not to sail at night as the maneuvers in the port area are dangerous even in daylight.

To feel the atmosphere of this place here's a short report from the scene. It covers only one morning hour which turned out to be really busy.

Morning, 6-45 am. The MSC Mira is one of the first ships which go out of the port. Being 277m in length it carefully passes some small cargo ship...

And goes on sailing escorted by a tug and a pilot boat.

Beautiful ford flex 2013

Flex appeals to people who want to stand out from the crowd and has the highest retention rate of any vehicle in the Ford lineup, said Mark Fields, president of The Americas. "With technologies not found in other full-size utilities, even better fuel economy and a more modern, sophisticated look, we're offering people even more reasons to choose Flex with the new model."

Highest Hair Raising Stunt

47-year-old Si Tainuo arrived aboard at altitude of 2100 meters, and then climbed out of the cabin, on the right wing turned somersault; fell firmly on another wing of flying glider. Then, quickly the first glider flight flipped, other glider slowly raised upright and then Si Tainuo grabbed the tail of the first glider, made himself between the two aircraft ” air bridge”. At that time, both gliders were having speed of 161 km per hour.

Amazing and Weird Boats

Boating is a fun and people always fond of spending time in water in floating boats but People do weird stuff even when it comes to boating and maritime industry! Doing unusual and wacky things is definitely the best way to garner others’ attention. A few similar unconventional things got our attention recently.