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Harrier combat aircraft for sale on eBay

Jakarta - Harrier fighter aircraft sale on eBay with a price of 69,999 pounds ($ 979 million). Though these jets become icons of the British victory in the Falklands War. Fans have the opportunity to have a fighter jet Harrier in the backyard. Auction site eBay to sell the first generation of revolutionary aircraft. The sale began with a figure of £ 69,999. This decision was very painful because the government announced the sale to save money British Royal Air Force (Royal Air Force / RAF). In fact, this plane is one of the greatest achievements of countries in the field of military jet technology. Harrier is the first aircraft capable of take off and land vertically. Introduced by the RAF in 1969, the ability to fly Harrier is flexible on the ground, then fly quickly. This is a capability that can not be done the conventional jet on the battlefield. The aircraft speed to 1126.5 km / h is claimed as a product that is important for England to win back Falkands after being attacked by Ar...

First Solar Aircraft

NASA made history once again new. This time the space agency from the United States had successfully created the first spacecraft-based solar power. At first it sounds like science fiction excerpts. But now NASA has made unmanned spacecraft without fuel minerals. Unlike any other spacecraft, NanoSail-D-like shape kites are relatively smaller size and its orbit is not too high from the top surface of the Earth. NanoSail-D using solar radiation pressure to make it move and fly at high speed. NASA said the satellite is only tiny at 100 square feet and operate according to plan. Actually NanoSail-D has been released into the air since January 20, 2011 last. However, that day can not be used as the first day he flew to NASA successfully receives the frequency of data packets from NanoSail-D, ie, five days later. "This is the first time NASA launched a spacecraft to orbit the lowest in the surface of the Earth," said Dean Alhorn, NASA spokesman, who quoted from Dailymail VIVAnews, ...

Efforts PT Dirgantara Indonesia Aircraft Industry SurvivePesawat Terbang

Rise Through the Airbus wing Axilla On several occasions, Prof. Dr. Ing Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was deeply disappointed to see the fate of PT Dirgantara Indonesia. Therefore, the aircraft industry that pioneered the way it is now in place. How is she now? WE had to develop its own aircraft CN-235 and N-250 to prove that Indonesian human resources able to master and develop the sophisticated technology of any kind. Where is it all right now? "Said BJ Habibie, former president of Indonesia, in front of the participant public lecture entitled Philosophy and Technology for Development at the Central Council of the University of Indonesia (UI), Depok, last Friday (12 / 3). Yes, PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) is nothing compared to when the company was still called the Aircraft Industry (IPTN) and Habibie was appointed president. At that IPTN has 16 thousand employees. Complex building in the region IPTN Pajajaran Road, London, stands majestic, occupying an area of 83 hectares. The m...