A 30ft-long vehicle sporting a Rolls Royce engine normally used in helicopters will attempt to reclaim the motorcycle land speed record for Britain. Engineer and ex-racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the ‘streamliner’ bike which will make its record attempt next year at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. Behind the wheel will be … Read more
A 30ft-long vehicle sporting a Rolls Royce engine normally used in helicopters will attempt to reclaim the motorcycle land speed record for Britain. Engineer and ex-racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the ‘streamliner’ bike which will make its record attempt next year at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. Behind the wheel will be … Read more
Engineers in the US claim to have created ‘the whitest paint yet’ – which they say will help tackle global warming. The ultra-white coating, developed at Purdue University in Indiana, reflects up to 98.1 per cent of sunlight while sending away infrared heat. Currently, paints on the market designed to reject heat only reflect somewhere between 80 and … Read more
British Gas engineers have shared their fury as hundreds today lost their jobs after refusing to sign up to tougher employment terms under a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme. The energy supplier handed dismissal notices to around 1,000 employees on April 1 following months of controversy over owner Centrica’s plans to up hours and cut higher … Read more
SpaceX engineers once staged a mutiny after they were left without food and cigarettes while working ‘like slaves’ to build a launch pad on an island in the Pacific during the company’s early years, according to a new book. The strike, which was staged in 2005, took place as SpaceX’s rocket engineers were racing to … Read more
SpaceX engineers once staged a mutiny after they were left without food and cigarettes while working ‘like slaves’ to build a launch pad on an island in the Pacific during the company’s early years, according to a new book. The strike, which was staged in 2005, took place as SpaceX’s rocket engineers were racing to … Read more
British Gas engineers stage eighth one-day strike over pay and conditions saying the row has left backlog of 150,000 customers British Gas engineers are holding eighth one-day strike over pay and conditions Additional strikes are planned for later on this week and into next month too GMB union claim backlog of 150,000 customers are currently … Read more
A school of robotic fish that are able to coordinate their movements underwater – just like real fish – have been created by a team of engineers. Harvard University experts created the fish-inspired bots to work without any external control, mimicking the collective behaviours groups of fish demonstrate. Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronised behaviours … Read more
British Gas engineers have started a five-day strike amid a dispute over accusations of a ‘fire and rehire’ policy. GMB, the union representing employees of British Gas, said the strike will cause ‘massive disruption to customers in the depths of winter’. It said several members were mounting socially distanced picket lines across the UK after being ‘provoked’ … Read more
More than 7,000 British Gas engineers will go on strike for five days from January 7 in row over pay and conditions, GMB union says The strike will be followed by further stoppages to be announced later The announcement follows a 9-1 vote in favour of industrial action The union said British Gas has set … Read more