Day: February 26, 2015

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#GenevaMotorShow – star cars on show from #Ferrari and more – three annotated infographics

E&T magazine

Once again, the world’s automotive manufacturers will shortly be zipping around the picturesque roads of Geneva, casting narcissistic glances at the reflections of their new super cars as they cruise by the placid, mirror-like surface of the adjacent eponymous Lake. Yes, ’tis time again for the Geneva Motor Show, when many otherwise perfectly sane, grown-up individuals lose their heads and bandy together in huddled groups, to stand slack-jawed and drooling in awe at the latest strategically shaped and painted hunks of metal before them. Over 220 exhibitors will be showing around 900 cars at the 2015 Geneva International Motor Show, … Continue reading #GenevaMotorShow – star cars on show from #Ferrari and more – three annotated infographics

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New #Haynes manuals show #space tech doesn’t have to be rocket science

E&T magazine

Reviewing Haynes’ new ‘Owners’ Workshop Manual’ for the various models of Nasa’s Gemini spacecraft in the current issue of E&T, Mark Williamson welcomes the recognition it gives to the projects that laid the engineering groundwork for the much more celebrated Apollo missions.   Although small (you could pack six or seven Gemini capsules into a Space Shuttle payload bay), it was America’s first ‘real spacecraft’, as this manual clearly shows… As one would expect from a modern-day Haynes guide, it is illustrated with line drawings based on the Nasa originals and an excellent set of nicely printed colour photographs. Gemini … Continue reading New #Haynes manuals show #space tech doesn’t have to be rocket science