Kite-powered ship to cross Atlantic: designers
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The world's first cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite has set sail from Germany to Venezuela, the company behind the project said Tuesday.
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The U.S. Navy on Friday gave a  transatlantic team led by Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N a $1.7  billion contract to build a new fleet of 23 U.S. presidential  helicopters, a deal valued at up to $6.1 billion.
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A navy that aspires to be more than a coastal defence force must be able to operate not just on the ocean, but in the skies above and the waters below.
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OSLO -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to re-create the 101-day epic voyage to Tahiti -- although the craft will have solar panels, a satellite navigation system, and a link to the Internet.
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The U.S. Navy has chosen a  trans-Atlantic team led by Lockheed Martin Corp. to build a new  U.S. presidential helicopter fleet in a deal valued at $1.7  billion.
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PARIS, Aug 19 (IPS) - Over the next two years a team of scientists aboard  the French schooner "Tara" will sail the Arctic Ocean to  study the consequences of global climate change in the polar ice  environment.
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NEW YORK - Future thrill-seekers will ride a sleek spacecraft berthed under a massive, twin-boom mothership to the fringe of space in a design unveiled Wednesday by Virgin Galactic.
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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A REVOLUTIONARY new type of aircraft that could lead to flights between Glasgow and Sydney in only two hours, will be tested in America tomorrow.
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Digital models of an historic ship are created as part of its restoration to test if it will survive the process.
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A renewable energy system built in the Highlands is to be tried out in the sea off Orkney.
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By Claire Soares  The world's first floating wind turbine could be up and running in under two years after the German engineering giant Siemens teamed up with a Norwegian energy group yesterday to try to generate electricity in the middle of the North Sea.
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Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.
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Designing , preparing and choosing sails are decisive factors in who will win the Americaâs Cup.
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Putting a harness on ocean  winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant  high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the  vessel's propulsion and to conserve fuel.
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Steve Rosenberg reports from aboard MS Beluga SkySails - the world's first cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite.
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