Real Railway Tales
Geoff Body and Bill Parker
To be published 1st May 2014, £12.99 Paperback Original
9780750956352
A collection of tales from life
on the tracks
Real Railway Tales
Geoff Body and Bill Parker
To be published 1st May 2014, £12.99 Paperback Original
9780750956352
A collection of tales from life
on the tracks
Great Passenger Ships:
1920-1930
William H. Miller
To be published 1st May 2014, £19.99 Paperback Original
9780752488097
Sail the iron giants of the post-First
World War shipping industry
Death, Dynamite and Disaster
A Grisly British Railway History
Rosa Matheson
To be published 1st May 2014, £9.99 Hardback
9780752492667
A collection of gruesome tales from
the early tracks of Britain
The early railways of Britain revolutionised public transport and helped the Industrial Revolution flourish. Lines
can now be found right across the body of the country—linking large cities and tiny towns alike.
50 Years of the Red Arrows
Peter R. March
To be published 1st June 2014, £14.99 Paperback Original
9780750956345
The history behind one of the first and most
dazzling flying teams in the world
In future, the hope is that human controllers can manipulate orbiting robots or planetary rovers in a similar fashion, across hundreds or thousands of kilometres of space.
Based at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the lab aims for robot operators to feel as though they are right there – up in orbit or down on a planet.
Stereo cameras offer 3D vision and the operator feels force-feedback, as found in high-end video game joysticks, to gain a working sense of touch as the robot manipulates objects.
This summer, ESA’s latest ATV space freighter will deliver the Lab’s Haptics-1 experiment to the International Space Station, testing how feedback operates in microgravity, as a prelude to demonstrating orbit-to-ground telerobotic control.
The volunteer crew from Mudeford RNLI were tasked on Tuesday night at 7.55pm to a 14ft GRP dinghy which had suffered engine failure, 600m off Hengistbury Head and was drifting east.
The two adults and one child that were on board were taken, along with their boat, to Strides boatyard.
Hamad International Airport welcomed a celebratory Qatar Airways’ VIP flight this morning, upon the airport’s highly anticipated soft opening.
TO NEW YORK AND MIAMI FROM MANCHESTER
Thomas Cook Airlines@FlyTC has today announced that it will operate a three times per week service to New York, JFK, from Manchester Airport from May 2015. The airline has also announced the only flights to Miami from outside London with a twice weekly schedule from Manchester, again with first flights in May 2015. The new Miami route will cater for families looking for holidays, those looking to join Caribbean cruises and, like travellers to New York, those taking advantage of a vast array of connections across the USA.