We have ignition?
A long-awaited hypersonic engine which would let planes fly from London to Sydney in three hours had its first test in Australia this week. But designers won’t know if the scramjet was a complete success until they’ve analysed the flight data.
The lightness of Boeing
Plane maker Boeing is to follow NASA by pursuing the antigravity research of Russian scientist Evgeny Podkletnov, who claims gravity can be reduced by rotating a superconducting ceramic disc above powerful electromagnets (Â鶹´«Ã½, 6 February 1999, p6).
Snap decision
Forgent, a multimedia company in Austin, Texas, plans to claim royalties…
