The world's largest aircraft in the hands of Iron Maiden singer

This huge aircraft they see in the photograph is not a dream or a distant and unattainable project. It takes years behind the scenes, and you can definitely fly before the end of 2014. Your name: Airlander. Size: 92 meters long, 18 meters higher than the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8 (also bigger than the Antonov An-225, a plane that measured 84 meters, manufactured by the Soviet Union in the 80s). And, as icing, a surprise among investors of the project is  Bruce Dickinson, singer of Iron Maiden (say one of the best vocalists in the history of heavy metal), pilot and entrepreneur. The history of Airlander (known in his early days as HAV304) has some bizarre.Until recently it was owned by the United States Army , who envisioned it as a perfect and durable surveillance machine (can be on the air five days without fail).Program was part of the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV), but the vehicle was finally rejected after only a test flight conducted in August-2012 - due to budget cuts. The Pentagon has invested in the project about $ 300 million. Become military waste, which was sold for only $ 301,000. "We learned a lot of technology," explained an army spokesman. "In the end, it was decided not to proceed." The  Airlander, a mixture of air cargo airship, has returned to Cardington hangar, the largest in England, where it was assembled between 1929 and 1930, the R101 airship , manufactured by the Royal Airship Works for overseas travel. In Cardington working to give a new focus to use freight to areas where conventional aircraft would be difficult to access and humanitarian aid missions.The project also fits with the idea of the British Government to bet means quieter and less polluting transport. "is a 70% greener than a cargo plane, and only two people are needed to make it fly," he has told the BBC the lead singer of Iron Maiden. The renamed Airlander has a carbon fiber structure, and its balloon is filled with inert gas helium . It is designed to fly at 16,000 feet (4,800 meters), about 150 km / h, powered by four diesel 4 liter V8 engines. Moreover, lands on any reasonably flat surface (either land, snow, water, ice ...) and off almost vertically (as flexible as a helicopter).

A French satellite detected 122 possible wreckage disappeared Malaysia

New images taken by a French space satellite show up to 122 possible wreckage of Malaysia disappeared. In his daily appearance before the media, so announced Wednesday Malaysian Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, who has stated that these pictures were taken last Sunday. They appear objects measuring between one and 23 meters floating in the Indian Ocean 2,557 miles southwest of Perth, near the area where you are looking for flight MH 370 from Malaysia Airlines lost on the 8th. "Some of these objects appear to be bright, possibly indicating that they are solid materials, "said the head of Malaysian Transport.Although he emphasized that "we can not tell if these are any traces of MH 370" yes insisted that it is "a new track that will help direct the search operations." Due to the size of the area, Malaysia is trying to limit tracing, involving airplanes and boats from six countries. So far, four satellite images ofAustralia , China and France have photographed in the waters of the Indian items that might belong to the MH flight 370, which was lost on radar while covering the route between Kuala Lumpur and Beijingwith 239 people on board. After cutting their communications and turn completely off course for reasons still unknown, the plane flew for hours until he lost track satellites in the middle of the Indian Ocean, where he probably fell into the sea after running out of fuel. Currently, all assumptions are open and investigators shuffled from mechanical failure to a kidnapping happening even suicide pilots. To clarify the causes of this mystery, one hundred of his relatives and friends have already been questioned by the police. While the search continues, the families of the 153 Chinese passengers eagerly await a Beijing hotel confirmation that the remains belong to flight MH 370, anguish and suffering since 18 days dotted with all kinds of rumors do.