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Biofuel-run Navy flight to mark Earth DaySt. Louis (UPI) Apr 21, 2010 A biofuel-powered flight of Boeing's F/A-18F Super Hornet will mark Earth Day Thursday, being observed worldwide with millions of "green" acts aimed to raise awareness of climate change. The unmodified aircraft will take off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., and will be powered by a sustainable biofuel blend of 50 percent camelina and 50 percent JP-5 aviation fuel, said the Boeing Co., whose teams are helping the flight. Biofuel-powered flight tests over the past few years have ... read more |
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London (AFP) April 21, 2010Planes took to Europe's skies in greater numbers Wednesday after the chaos caused by the Iceland volcano cloud, but travellers still faced disruption as airlines fought to shift a huge backlog. Britain finally lifted a flight ban on its airspace late Tuesday, following Belgium, France and Germany and others in easing restrictions introduced after the Eyjafjoell volcano spewed a huge dust clo ... more  
Tehran (UPI) Apr 21, 2010 Iranian, Pakistani and Indian leaders are to meet in Tehran next month to discuss extending a planned strategic pipeline from Iran to energy-short Pakistan to India as well, a project the United States has repeatedly sought to wreck. First mooted in 1994, it's been under discussion off and on for 16 years but has constantly run into difficulties largely because of Iran's pariah status a ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2010A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under ... more |
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From The Streets Of New York To The MoonHouston TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2010 If you mention the name Neil Armstrong to the average American, you'll find immediate recognition. "He was the first man on the moon," they'll say. But if you ask the average American about the team behind Armstrong, you're likely to get blank stares, which is why one Apollo technician has written a new memoir. "It's important that people know about some of the 400,000 people who contributed to the lunar landing," says David L. Cisco, author of Full Circle, a memoir about his life growing up birac ... read more |
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