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Aerovel Testing Flexrotor Long-Endurance Robotic Aircraft With VTOLHusum WA (SPX) Sep 13, 2010 Aerovel's Flexrotor miniature aircraft entered a new development phase Tuesday as the first prototype, named Pandora, began flight test. The table-top sized aircraft is designed for more than 3000 km range, and endurance exceeding a day and a half. In announcing its first flight, Aerovel's president, Tad McGeer - who previously led development of the Aerosonde and Scaneagle robotic aircraft - said that this time around was a little different. "With Aerosonde we launched into flight test by b ... read more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2010Japan voiced concern over China's growing military muscle in a defence paper Friday, as a row with Beijing continued over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters. In its annual Defence of Japan report, Tokyo pointed to increased Chinese naval activities near its shores, including tense incidents this year in which Chinese helicopters staged close fly-bys of Japanese warshi ... more  
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 12, 2010A US missile strike Sunday killed six militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, as a suicide bomber died in a failed attack in Pakistan's Kashmir, officials said. Pakistan has seen a sharp spike in US drone strikes in its rugged northwestern tribal region in recent days, amid a surge in suicide attacks and bombings across the country. The Pakistani Taliban ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 9, 2010About 57,000 seemingly legitimate websites booby-trapped by hackers spring up on the Internet each week, computer security researchers at PandaLabs revealed on Thursday. The online traps are often made to look like versions of legitimate bank, auction, or shopping websites, according to the team at Spain-based Panda Security. "The problem is that when you visit a website through email or ... more |
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S.Korea to propose regular family reunions to N.KoreaSeoul (AFP) Sept 12, 2010 South Korea is to propose that reunions of families separated by the war-time division of the peninsula become a regular fixture, an official said Sunday, a day after Pyongyang suggested re-starting the programme. Officials from South Korea's Red Cross will make the proposal to their counterparts in the north early this week, Unification Ministry Spokeswoman Lee Jong-Joo told AFP. "During the meeting, we will also propose to turn the reunion programmes into regular ones, for instance, every mon ... read more |
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