Dienstag, April 20, 2010

Secret Iphone? This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone Prototype soll in einer Bar in Redwood City liegengelassen worden sein. Ein schlauer Marketing Trick ?




Uncovered Apple Iphone by gizmodo
Gray Powell—a North Carolina State University 2006 graduate and talented amateur photographer—is an Apple Software Engineer working on the iPhone Baseband Software, the little program that enables the iPhone to make calls. A dream job for a talented engineer like Powell, an Apple fan who always wanted to meet Steve Jobs. more...


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Apple askked for the lost Iphone Prototype  go Gizmodo!
Report on NPR/National Public Radio

Erfolgreicher Messflug des DLR-Forschungsflugzeugs "Falcon 20E" - DLR's research aircraft 'Falcon 20E' completes measurement flight successfully

                                                              photo by dlr

Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) hat am 19. April 2010 einen erfolgreichen Messflug zur Vulkanasche-Wolke über Deutschland durchgeführt. Nach einer Flugzeit von mehr als drei Stunden ist die Falcon 20E um 20.45 Uhr (MESZ) auf ihre Heimatbasis zurückgekehrt. Die Flugroute für diesen Messflug führte von Oberpfaffenhofen nach Leipzig, dann über Hamburg nach Bilthoven (Niederlande) und zurück über Stuttgart nach Oberpfaffenhofen.  mehr...

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) completed a successful measurement flight of the volcanic ash cloud over Germany on 19 April 2010. After a flight time lasting more than three hours, the Falcon 20E returned to its home base at 20:45 CEST. The route for this measurement flight led from Oberpfaffenhofen to Leipzig, then over Hamburg and on to Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and returned via Stuttgart to Oberpfaffenhofen.   more...

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National Public Radio: Interview mit Eric Moody, Chefpilot einer B 747, die am 24.Juni 1982 auf dem Flug B 009 von Kuala Lumpur nach Perth, nahe der Küste Indonesiens in eine Vulkan-Aschewolke kam



Transcript bei NPR :

As the volcano in Iceland continues to spew ash, flights are grounded across large areas of Europe. And if you wonder why such caution is needed, you can ask retired British Airways Captain Eric Moody. In 1982, Captain Moody was flying near Jakarta, Indonesia when volcanic ash caused all four engines on his Boeing 747 to fail. But Captain Moody landed his airplane. He joins us now from Camberley, England.
Captain Moody, thanks for being with us.
Mr. ERIC MOODY (Retired British Airways Pilot): It's a pleasure.
SIMON: So your plane's going down. Oxygen bags are deployed. What do you do?
Mr. MOODY: Gosh, we'd been trying  more...

Captain Eric Moody's Website