Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Mum's touching wedding photograph tribute to son who died of leukaemia just months earlier

A faint image of Lake Bozman was photoshopped in the Thompson's family wedding photo
Still with us: The hauntingly beautiful image of Lake with his family
A mother was left heartbroken when her young son died just months before her wedding day.
But Anna Bozman Thompson made sure son Lake was a part of her big day.
The youngster lost his battle with leukaemia in May, just weeks before his ninth birthday, the Daily News reported .
When Thompson tied the knot last month, she enlisted the help of friend andphotographer Brandy Angel to pay a special tribute to her little boy.
  • Angel created special edits of the couple's wedding pictures to include a faint vision of Lake, so he appears almost ghostlike happily posing with the family.

Monday, November 2, 2015

More than 200 masked bikers stage ‘Mad Max’ rideout through London streets

More than 200 masked bikers stage ‘Mad Max’ rideout through London streets

A huge convoy of more than 200 high-powered motorbikes and quad bikes tore through London streets in scenes likened to Mad Max Fury Road.
The eight-mile ‘Halloween Rideout’ saw riders run red lights, set off fireworks and even mount pavements, according to witnesses.
One Twitter user said, ‘Just had a Mad Max scene going on down my street, hundreds of bikes and quad bikes going down the road (and the wrong side).’

The world just got closer to a 'hypersonic space plane' that will transform 'the economics of space'

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Reaction Engines, one of the brightest prospects in European space plane technology, has big news Monday morning. 
BAE Systems, the globetrotting defence and aeronautics giant, just bought 20% of the firm, and it's making a major investment in Reaction Engines' most promising ideas.
The idea is an unpiloted and reusable hypersonic space plane. It's called Sabre. Here's how Reaction Engines describes it:

China just unveiled its first large passenger plane

Commercial Aircraft Corp of China COMAC C919 Airplane

A state-owned manufacturer on Monday unveiled the first plane produced by a Chinese initiative to compete in the market for large passenger jetliners.
China is one of the biggest aviation markets but relies on Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The multibillion-dollar effort to create the homegrown C919 jetliner is aimed at clawing back some of the commercial benefits that flow to foreign suppliers.
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. ofChina showed off the first of the twin-engine planes in a ceremony attended by some 4,000 government officials and other guests at a hangar near Shanghai's Pudong International Airport.
"It's a major push for the country, as they want to be known as a major player" in airplane manufacturing, said Mavis Toh, Asia air transport editor for Flightglobal magazine.

Top Metrojet official says 'only possible explanation' of Russian aircraft crash 'could be an external impact on the airplane'

Russian Russia Egypt Airplane Crash Debris Sinai Helicopter
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Only an external impact could have caused the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt that killed all 224 people on board, a top airline official said Monday, raising more questions about what exactly happened.
"We rule out a technical fault of the plane or a pilot error," said Alexander Smirnov, deputy general director of Metrojet. "The only possible explanation could be an external impact on the airplane."
But when pressed for more details about what type of impact and what could have caused it, Smirnov insisted that he was not at liberty to discuss details because the investigation was ongoing.

Russian plane crash: Was a bomb placed on doomed aircraft before it took off?

Egyptian paramedics load the corpses of Russian victims of a Russian passenger plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, into a military aircraft at Kabret military air base by the Suez Canal
Attacked? Egyptian paramedics load the corpses of victims on the crashed plane
A bomb is suspected of causing the Russian plane to crash after leaving the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Russian aviation investigators confirmed the Airbus definitely broke up in mid-air before plummeting to the ground, killing 224 people – including 17 children.
Terror group ISIS posted a grainy video online and claimed responsibility for the attack.
British tourists heading to Sharm this week have been told they do not have to fly and have been offered vouchers to use on alternative routes.
Several airlines including Lufthansa, Air France, Emirates, Air Arabia and Flydubai all said they would not fly over the Sinai desert until results of the inquiry were known.

Pensioner collapses and dies after he is 'detained' by a neighbour for allegedly damaging a car

Police were called to the scene after allegations that a car had been damaged
Police were called to the scene after allegations that a car had been damaged
An 86-year-old man collapsed and died after he was ‘detained’ by a neighbour for an hour and a half for allegedly damaging a car.
Bill Singleton became ill after police attended a home in Chadderton, Greater Manchester, on Halloween.
Officers had received reports that a man in his 80s was causing damage to a parked car and a neighbour allegedly ran over to him and detained him, the Manchester Evening News reports .

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