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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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Defence and aerospace company BAE Systems' South African operation, Land Systems OMC, through its partnership with General Dynamics Land Systems Canada, has been awarded an order for the supply of 600 category II RG31 Mk5E vehicles for the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle programme for the US Marine Corps Systems Command.
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Sunday 12 August, 2007 01:47 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Virgin America , a carrier closely tied to British entrepreneur Richard Branson that will focus on low costs and in-flight amenities, made its much-publicized inaugural U.S. flight Wednesday — after a delay caused by a New York storm.
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Thursday 9 August, 2007 11:44 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
The yacht has become, in recent years, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. It seems that you can't be in The Forbes 400 top of the richest people on the planet without owning a kick-a** yacht, or was it the other way around?
Originally, it was defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries, but later it came to be used to transport important persons.
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Thursday 9 August, 2007 11:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
It's called MAN Takraf RB293 and it's the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history ,making the huge NASA Crawler that transports space shuttles to the launch pads look like a Volkswagen Beetle.
Bucket-wheel excavators are heavy machines used in the mining industry and civil engineering. They are also some of the largest vehicles ever built.
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Tuesday 7 August, 2007 11:34 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
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If you thought that the only way that you could possibly learn how to build robots is to obtain a PhD in engineering then you are wrong. It does help to have some university training but some people are naturally good at applying themselves and building remarkable machines.
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Monday 6 August, 2007 09:40 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by jackson Browne
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Gizmodo has an interesting look at a new timepiece by Swatch allowing the blind to read the time. It's somewhat ironic that such an elegant looking device was designed for people that will never actually be able to see it. Still I always am interested in clever designs like this.
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Monday 6 August, 2007 01:30 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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The Maybach Exelero is one of those vehicle that if you don’t see with your own two eyes you have a hard time beleiveing that it is real. But have no fear it is very real and very expensive
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Sunday 5 August, 2007 08:51 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
If you were to take a hot-selling bicycle line and ask its dealers what they wanted for the next year, the obvious answer would be, 'more of the same'. After all, why mess with a good thing, right? However, after years of playing it safe on the road with level top tube geometries, round carbon tubing, and conservative layouts and graphics, Trek found itself in disturbingly unfamiliar territory after the retirement of its one-man marketing juggernaut, Lance Armstrong. The public stopped buying once the 'Lance factor' wore off, and Trek was left peddling its Madone lineup for what it was: an extremely competent racing-specific platform that unfortunately had little sex appeal on the showroom floor as compared to its more progressive competition.
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Friday 3 August, 2007 10:35 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Shimano’s computer (on left) is what shifts the bicycle gears automatically . There’s an actual computer chip inside, plus flash memory and software.
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Friday 3 August, 2007 10:16 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rick DeMeis
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Here are details Automotive DesignLine has obtained on Toyota's Supra HV-R hybrid racer that won the Tokachi 24-Hour Race in mid-July. Last year a Lexus hybrid finished 17th, so the technology (and racing prowess) has come a long way.
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Tuesday 31 July, 2007 12:29 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Peace of mind is invaluable when you are buying any used car – but especially so when the model you’re considering has the kind of price tag which makes most showroom-fresh vehicles look cheap. That’s why Rolls-Royce has introduced its first-ever approved second-hand programme.
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Friday 27 July, 2007 10:50 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Fibrecore™ is a lightweight, high stiffness metallic sandwich material, designed as a drop-in sheet metal replacement. Fabricated entirely from stainless steel, with thin faceplates and a novel melt spun fibre core, it has an areal density below that of a titanium sheet of the same thickness.
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Thursday 26 July, 2007 11:31 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
BAE Systems will develop and test a key component of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle payload system.
The company will produce, test, and integrate the system’s carrier vehicle seeker for the captive carry testbed under a two-year, $6.3 million contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.
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Thursday 26 July, 2007 11:17 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
Zeitlauf is offering a new gearhead that the company says could spell the end of the worm gear in certain applications. The Etacrown delivers high torque in a small-profile gearmotor, is almost silent and has high efficiency.
Key benefits of the new gearmotors are the compact size, high torque and near-silent running. Furthermore, they can be flush-mounted, making them useful for applications such as door actuation, and they will also find many applications in the medical industry and other applications.
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Wednesday 25 July, 2007 12:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
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Bombardier Transportation , a global major based in Canada, has bagged a contract worth $590 million for supplying 340 coaches for the second phase of Delhi Metro operations.The company will start delivering the world-class coaches to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) from the last quarter of 2008 with completion in 2010 "to provide effective public transport during the Commonwealth Games".
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Tuesday 24 July, 2007 09:58 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Burt Jordaan
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All of us know the effects of the mysterious force called gravity. However, the question 'what is gravity' is not easy to answer at all. The reason is that we don't really understand what this force actually is (if it is a force at all). This non-technical article answers the question up to the current well-proven classical understanding of the physics behind gravity. It deals with the evolution of classical gravity theory by Kepler, Newton and Einstein, but stops short of the current developments in quantum gravity.
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Monday 23 July, 2007 03:29 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
The most advanced warship in the world to date, HMS Daring, has departed from BAE Systems’ shipyard in Scotstoun on her maiden voyage down the River Clyde to begin sea trials off the west coast of Scotland.
Launched by HRH the Countess of Wessex in February 2006, HMS Daring is the first of six Daring class Type 45 destroyers being built for the Royal Navy. They will provide the British fleet and her allies with an unparalleled level of anti-air warfare capability through to the middle of the 21st century and will be the most capable warships of their type ever built.
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Sunday 22 July, 2007 08:02 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
The governments of the UK and Germany signed a contract in November 1999 for the collaborative development and initial production of the family of next generation armoured utility vehicles.
The programme is known as the MRAV Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle (MRAV) in the UK, the Gepanzertes Transport-Kraftfahrzeug (GTK) in Germany.
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Tuesday 17 July, 2007 09:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
Something was rumbling at Virgin Galactic — Sir Richard Branson’s public spaceliner enterprise
The curtain has now been lifted. Pratt & Whitney Canada has been picked to provide their PW308 turbofan engine to power the suborbital spaceship launcher . Pratt & Whitney Canada is a United Technologies company.
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Tuesday 17 July, 2007 09:05 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
Life Cycle Costing (LCC) has long been used in planning for reliability and maintenance for complex engineering systems in defence, airline, railway, offshore platform, power station, and other applications.
A basic attribute of stainless steel is the ability to provide long-term performance with a minimum of downtime and cost associated with maintenance. As a result LCC is of particular importance to the stainless industry.
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Monday 16 July, 2007 11:44 AM |
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