Pilots raise more than £20,000 for Second World War seaplane named ‘Miss Pick Up’ which suffered an engine failure on Loch Ness PBY Catalina flying boat suffered an engine failure after landing on Loch Ness The seaplane was moored in the water before it was lifted out by a crane Plane Sailing have raised more … Read more
Scuppered! Britain’s £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has a 3ft water leak in its engine room — its second deluge in the past five months HMS Prince of Wales suffered a leak in the £3.1-billion vessel’s engine room It is the second time the new aircraft carrer has suffered a leak this year … Read more
The nation’s favourite car ditches diesel: Ford Fiesta now only sold in Britain with petrol engines as it cuts the out-of-favour fuel type Ford has ditched the 84bhp 1.5-litre TDCi engine from the Fiesta range It was the most frugal engine in the range, returning a claimed 65.7mpg The car maker says just 2% of … Read more
Man returns Thomas the Tank Engine book to a library almost fifty YEARS late after taking it out as a child – but dodges a potential £8,000 late fee The man returned the book after borrowing it as a child in 1972 He posted it to Basingstoke Discovery Centre with an apology note Council said … Read more
Footage has emerged of a fire engine becoming stuck in a road block, put in place to create a ‘Covid friendly’ cycle lanes, as furious residents up and down the country continue to rage against similar schemes – dubbed a ‘war on motorists’. The video shows the blue-lit emergency vehicle wedged between a wooden planter … Read more
Terrifying moment plane engine bursts into flames midair before the Guam-bound flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Hawaii An Atlas Air plane caught on fire during a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Guam on Saturday The plane took off from Hickman Air Force Base, but the pilot declared an emergency landing minutes later … Read more
After 3,160 days… HS2 digging finally starts: Boris Johnson hails controversial rail link as engine for jobs growth as construction starts at last Europe’s largest infrastructure project will today move to full construction Its cost spiralled from projected £36billion in 2012 to an estimated £106billion HS2 Ltd is expect to recruit for around 22,000 roles … Read more
A US federal judge has granted Epic Games a temporary restraining order against Apple which will prevent the iPhone maker from cutting off Epic’s computer graphics software Unreal Engine. The Unreal Engine and its license is relied upon by hundreds of app developers, not just Epic, and would cause enormous disruption in the gaming industry. … Read more
Lamborghini driver revving his engine at terrified pedestrians gets his £200,000 supercar seized by police when they learn he is not insured Police seized the Lamborghini Huracan Evo in Bournemouth town centre, Dorset The motorist was pulled over and said he was moving the car for a friend He got a ticket for driving uninsured … Read more
SpaceX celebrated a milestone that brings the firm’s Starship rocket one step closer to Mars. CEO Elon Musk shared on Twitter that the Raptor engine did not explode after reaching a new high combustion chamber pressure during a controlled burn test. The engine, a crucial piece of the Starship rocket, hit a record breaker of … Read more