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<endeca_term>WingSpan</endeca_term> 1.0

WingSpan 1.0

...pin has been necessary to ensure equal distances for each pin. Enter WingSpan. Once you've measure the width of the boat and the vertical... Read more

5 March, 2011
Top-secret spy planes patrol the skies

Top-secret spy planes patrol the skies

...2 has been around in various incarnations since 1955. With its long wingspan, the U-2 can travel effortlessly at up to 70,000 feet... Read more

26 February, 2011 by Staff

Plane completes 17-hour flight without fuel

...hour flight without using traditional fuel. Solar Impulse's aircraft has a wingspan equal to that of an Airbus A340 airliner. Credit: Ben Woods The... Read more

28 May, 2012
Boeing's Phantom Ray drone takes first flight

Boeing's Phantom Ray drone takes first flight

...The Phantom Ray is 11m long and has a wingspan of 15m, and from this angle bears a passing resemblance to a... Read more

15 May, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
iBird Explorer North 5.1

iBird Explorer North 5.1

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9 February, 2012
iBird Backyard Plus 5.1

iBird Backyard Plus 5.1

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8 February, 2012
Paul Allen backs Stratolaunch spaceplane

Paul Allen backs Stratolaunch spaceplane

...of Hawthorne, California.The 535-ton, six-engine carrier aircraft, with a wingspan of 385 feet, will be built by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California... Read more

14 December, 2011 by William Harwood
iBird Explorer Lite 5

iBird Explorer Lite 5

...Search by shape, size, habitat, color, family, song, length, weight, flight pattern wingspan, and much more Taxonomic and Alphabetical family sort options on Browse screen... Read more

25 October, 2011

Photos: Print-at-home chocolate to robot snakes - 10 weirdest items made by 3D printers

...aerodynamics of this aircraft. The electric-powered aircraft has a two-metre wingspan and a top speed of nearly 100mph but is almost silent in... Read more

1 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Robot zoo: World's best animal-inspired automata

...smallest creatures around: the fly. The Lab's microbot has a 3cm wingspan and is limited to vertical flight only but, according to professor Robert... Read more

12 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Photos: Farnborough air show demos the planes that fly without pilots

Aeronautics' Aerostar is a UAV with a 155-mile range, 25-foot wingspan, and 121-pound payload capacity. It can fly as long as 12... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland
Encyclopedia of Airliners 2.1

Encyclopedia of Airliners 2.1

...capacities with different layout of classes, layout of seats in one row, wingspan, wing area, wing sweepback, overall length, inner cabin width, outer fuselage width... Read more

16 May, 2012
iBird Explorer Plus 5.1

iBird Explorer Plus 5.1

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23 February, 2012
Encyclopedia of Fighter Aircraft 1.1

Encyclopedia of Fighter Aircraft 1.1

...of the end of production, how many items were built, average price, wingspan, wingspan in spread shape for planes with variable wing geometry, wing area... Read more

23 February, 2012
iBird Explorer Canada 5.1

iBird Explorer Canada 5.1

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23 February, 2012

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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Smilig Eddie

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

21 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

1 day ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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