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Florida's "silent" flying dish-rack, powered by ionic propulsion, is on track for commercial rollout in 2024, according to Undefined Technologies, which has released new outdoor flight test video. We remain curious, but unconvinced it'll be viable. The "Silent Ventus" drone doesn't use propellers to fly. Instead, its entire broad structure creates two stacked grids of electrodes, designed to create high-voltage electric fields that can ionize the oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the air, freeing electrons to give them a positive charge, and then propelling these downward to create an "ionic wind" that can produce thrust. It's not new; ionic propulsion...

1956 B-47 disappearance 1956 B-47 disappearance 10 March 1956 Summary Missing, status unknown Site Mediterranean Sea Aircraft type Boeing B-47E Stratojet Operator United States Air Force Registration 52-534 Flight origin MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, United States Destination Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco Passengers 0 Crew 3 Fatalities Unknown Injuries Unknown Survivors Unknown The 1956 B-47 disappearance occurred on 10 March 1956 over the Mediterranean Sea. Contents 1 Flight 2 Aftermath 3 See also 4 References Flight A Boeing B-47 Stratojet, call-sign Inkspot 59, (306th Bombardment Wing/369th Bomb Squadron) took off from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, in the United...

Russia had already declared its intent in spring, and is now going ahead with plans to annex the territories it has occupied in the south and east of Ukraine on a fast-track basis. Simultaneous votes in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been scheduled from September 23 to September 27. In a speech on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that Moscow would recognize the results. Just as it did with the Crimean annexation in 2014, Russia is making a point of appearing not to be involved. It was local Ukrainian politicians supported by the Russian military who...

Ford Motor on Thursday announced plans to restructure its global supply chain, days after the company said it expects to book an extra $1 billion in unexpected supplier costs during the third quarter. The supply chain restructuring aims to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components, internal development of key technologies and capabilities, and world-class cost and quality execution,” the automaker said in a release. snip On Monday, Ford said recent negotiations resulted in inflation-related supplier costs running $1 billion higher than previously expected during the third quarter. The announcement, including a pre-release of some earnings expectations, caused Ford’s stock...

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that she was attempting to think former President Donald Trump into jail after playing a clip on Trump saying a president can declassify documents by “thinking about it.” On Fox News Wednesday night, Trump said, “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it. Because you are sending it to Mar-a-Lago or where ever you are sending it. There doesn’t have to be a process.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) leads Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) by double digits in Florida’s gubernatorial race, a recent Echelon Insights survey found. The survey asked respondents who they would vote for if the gubernatorial race were held today. DeSantis enjoys a ten-point advantage, leading Crist 52 percent to 42 percent. The Republican governor also enjoys more certainty among respondents, as 43 percent said they will “definitely” vote for him, compared to 31 percent who said the same for Crist. A poll from USA TODAY/Suffolk also found DeSantis comfortably leading his Democrat challenger by seven percentage points, or 48 percent...

Hey, remember when Joe Biden said Republicans were a "clear and present danger" and a "threat to democracy"? Remember when Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) called for people to "confront and kill" Republicans? They've scored their first kill. 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was intentionally mowed down by a man motivated by Joe Biden's and Tim Ryan's incendiary attacks on Republicans. Ellison was murdered by Shannon Brandt who "Republican extremist." Who uses that kind of language? Biden. Ryan. Pretty much all democrats. Foster County Deputies were called to an alleyway in the town of McHenry around 2:35 a.m. by 41-year-old Shannon Brandt, according...

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? – JM Keynes Climate Policy is in crisis. This month, the G20 Climate Conference in Bali collapsed in confusion – preceded by the flops of both COP26 in Glasgow and COP25 in Madrid. Three decades of climate talks (52 weeks of Conferencing) have failed dismally – and the global objective of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions is no nearer being attained than it was at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The initial hopes engendered by the tepid Paris Agreement of 2015 (Paris15) have been dashed. No...

China paid scientists up to $1 million to leave their work on sensitive weapons technologies at the U.S.’ top nuclear lab and develop weapons for China, according to an intelligence report published Wednesday. The report from Strider Technologies details Beijing’s campaign to embed 162 Chinese scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratories, where the U.S. first developed nuclear weapons, in sensitive U.S.-funded research over the last three decades. At least 13 of the scientists later returned to China through the subversive “talent programs” to advance Chinese research in deep-earth-penetrating warhead, hypersonic missile, quiet submarine and drone technologies, according to the report....

VIDEO AT LINK................... Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley grilled Colleen Shogan, President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Archives and Records Administration, noting that she had written a paper he said disparaged every two-term Republican president since World War II. Hawley’s questions came during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday. “You have talked in today’s hearings so far and in your pre-hearing Q&A about how much it’s important to be a non-partisan leader, correct?” Hawley began. “And so if you’re confirmed, you will attempt to stay politically neutral in your decision making, is that fair...

Overall, nearly 7 in 10 Americans have that concern New polling reveals that nearly half of the nation's Democrats feel less safe since Joe Biden, their own party's candidate for president, was elected and moved into the White house.

Former Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) over sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week. “I personally watch what’s happening and it’s very hard to see at the Southern Border,” said Kushner on Tuesday’s Outnumbered on Fox News. “We have to remember these are human beings, they’re people, so seeing them being used as political pawns one way or the other is very troubling to me.”

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The driver accused of killing a 70-year-old man in a high-speed crash over the weekend was going 89 mph in a 45-mph zone, according to his arrest report. On Saturday, Sept. 17. at around 4:17 p.m., 20-year-old Corey Clark was driving a BMW southbound on Decatur Boulevard approaching the intersection with Jay Avenue while Leonard Carella was driving eastbound on Jay and west of Decatur, the report said. Carella stopped at a stop sign and entered the intersection when his truck crashed with Clark’s car, the report said. Clark’s BMW crashed into the left side of...

left residents living in fear Leicester had been upheld a one of the UK's most successful multi-cultural communities in Great Britain But violence erupted in the past few days with 25 police officers being injured and 47 arrests made in the city Riots blamed on a cricket match between India and Pakistan, but Nick Fagge says Leicester is a 'tinderbox' This week 200 Muslim men protested at in Birmingham against Hindu woman linked to extremism in India After the most recent clashes in Leicester, MailOnline sent reporter Nick Fagge inside a city at war Until a few weeks ago Leicester...

by Becca London | 24NewsRadical leftist and Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams claimed that a fetal heartbeat at 6 weeks is a fabrication and just a “manufactured sound” in a newly released video.Georgia Democrat Abrams can be seen spouting lies and misinformation about fetal heartbeat alongside other speakers in an unearthed video.“There is no such thing as a heartbeat,” Abrams claimed.“It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body away from her,” she said.So men invented fake fetal heartbeats to control women. Ok.And the same media that talks...

Meanwhile in the Democrat hellhole of California… Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill this week legalizing human composting. Starting in 2027, human composting will be available as a new burial method in California.

Tom Elliott @tomselliott: Rep.@RashidaTlaib challenges bank CEOs to agree to stop funding fossil fuels, is rejected by every single one Jamie Dimon: "That would be the road to Hell for America"

Iran’s president walked out on an interview with CNN Wednesday, after one of the anchors refused his demand she wear a hijab. The interview was to be held in New York Wednesday, during Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to the US for his address at the United Nations General Assembly. Christiane Amanpour, a veteran journalist for the cable news channel, was waiting to interview Raisi Wednesday when an aide to the Iranian president urged her to wear a headscarf, she tweeted Thursday. “This was going to be President Raisi’s first ever interview on US soil, during his visit to NY...

With social media's tech tyrants censoring everything using GAB is truly the best platform to have freedom of speech. There is a Freerepublic group there which cross-posts many of the article here. https://gab.com/groups/67851Learn how to use Gab's filters in your settings and you control what you see and don't see. The left likes to pose as NAZIs and racists to make GAB look bad (and I'm sure there is a few real ones there too). Just put those words you don't want to see in your filter and you won't have to see those posts/comments.

An American Airlines passenger was detained by the FBI after being caught on a cellphone video punching a flight attendant in the head aboard a flight from Mexico to Los Angeles. The airline said in a statement that the assault took place on Flight 377 from San Jose del Cabo to LAX on Wednesday, reported CBS News. According to the feds, the passenger was removed from the plane after it touched down in Los Angles and was detained on suspicion of interfering with a flight crew — a federal felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The suspect...