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Boeing Unveils Unmanned Phantom Ray DemonstratorSt. Louis MO (SPX) May 11, 2010 Boeing has unveiled the fighter-sized Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system, a test bed for advanced technologies. "We are on a fast track, and first flight is in sight," said Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works. "Phantom Ray is on schedule to fly in December, about two years after this project began. This is a tremendous accomplishment for Boeing and the Phantom Ray team." Phantom Ray is scheduled to begin taxi tests this summer. The first flight in December will be followed by u ... read more |
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Kathmandu, Nepal (UPI) May 10, 2010 Shoppers and businesses reclaimed the streets of Nepal's capital Kathmandu after Maoist anti-government demonstrators called off their general strike on the weekend. The Maoists, some of whom are former guerrilla fighters, backed from their protests after thousands of angry residents created their own demonstrations demanding the Maoists end their crippling strike. Patience ran o ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) May 9, 2010Waving his hands wildly in the air, Abdel al-Khafaji explains that it should not take four hours of security holdups to reach Baghdad airport's check-in queue ... and yet further delays. "It is really bad," says the 70-year-old Iraqi exile, trying to head home to Denmark, where he has lived for the past 16 years, after a holiday. "Before, everything was well-managed but now it is so comp ... more  
Moscow (AFP) May 9, 2010Troops from four NATO states marched through Red Square for the first time Sunday as Russia marked victory in World War II with its biggest military parade since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In a moment of huge symbolism, soldiers from Britain, France, Poland and the United States paraded on the square's famous cobbles in Moscow at the same time as nuclear-capable missiles that once wou ... more |
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High-tech mapping could show Gulf oil impacts: expertNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 10, 2010 A French researcher has suggested an aerial map-making technique could be a valuable tool to show where oil from a giant spill is washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico. SHOALS-1000 has been used by the US military to map coastlines but never before to measure an oil slick's presence on shore, said Antoine Cottin, a 34-year-old researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi. The technique, developed by a Canadian company, involves a plane flying over a given maritime zone carrying bundles of ... read more |
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