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Virgin Galactic has announced that VSS Enterprise successfully completed its inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.
Virgin Galatic: VSS Enterprise’s first ‘captive carry’ flight [video] Read MoreIf you’ve only a passing interest in Britain’s railways, its architecture or industrial past, you should find Subterranea Brittanica’s Closed Stations site an invaluable and compelling resource.
Disused Stations: the melancholic romance of abandoned railway lines Read MoreTransport for London have released their all-new interactive bus map, and we’re feeling the love.
TFL’s new interactive bus map for Londoners Read MoreIf you’re stuck in your office and fed up looking out at the car park, then why not take a virtual trip along the great Trans Siberian Railway? Thanks to …
Moscow-Vladivostok – take a virtual journey on Google Maps Read MoreLondon-based design and innovation company Seymourpowell has whizzed up an incredible vision of a giant, elegant ‘clipper in the clouds’ airship that’s got us scrambling for our passports and monogrammed leather luggage.
Stunning Aircruise hydrogen airships promise a new era in luxury travel Read MoreBoy, do we want this thing. NASA has slapped up a YouTube video of their amazing Puffin personal aircraft: a mean, lean, hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal VTOL (vertical takeoff and …
NASA shows off ridiculously cool ‘Puffin’ personal flying gizmo Read MoreThere’s been loads of attempts to create practical flying cars, but most of them have ended up as unholy bodges that made the Titanic seem a more agreeable transport option. …
Welcome to the future: the flying car arrives! Read MoreKen got rid of them and Boris is bringing them back, and according to TfL’s press release, the Routemaster bus will soon be gracing London’s streets sooner than we might …
Details of London’s new Routemaster buses released Read MoreTrance bands are always banging on about ‘taking you higher’, but a UK outfit are looking to go higher than any other fluoro-donning, repetitive-beat churning DJs have ever been before, …
Trance DJs try the ultimate blag – in space Read MoreThe Blackburn Fleabike bike lamp takes portability to a whole new level, coming in a package so small that it initially prompted suggestions that it may have fallen out of …
Blackburn Flea 4 LED rechargeable USB bike lamp: review Read MoreSo we’re at Brixton tube station. And we’re late for a meeting. We rock up to the gates, slam down our Oyster card on the reader only to be greeted …
Official! Tube ‘Call For Assistance’ ticket button is pointless Read MoreUK online train ticket vendors, the trainline, have released a freebie iPhone app for travellin’ folks needing access to “train information anywhere, anytime”. The app for the iPhone and iPod …
thetrainline releases free iPhone timetable app Read MoreAmphibious cars always seem like a great idea on paper but never really cut it in the real world, invariably coming over as an uncomfortable neither fish nor fowl botch-job. …
Corvette Python: world’s fastest amphibious car Read MoreWhen we saw the title of the press release we thought we’d be in for the kind of hairdryer powered, multi-mirrored scooter you’d see being frantically driven around by a …
Lambretta Bicicletta: the ‘Quadrophenia’ bike Read MoreNow we love gadgets and gizmos like Oliver Reed liked to quaff yards of ale, but sometimes the quickest answer to a question can be found by more low tech …
Walk or get the bus? The answer is here. Read More