DARPA and Lockheed Martin are developing a propulsion system to power a hypersconic vehicle with compressed air, and it will be ready by 2012.

Check out this decontamination point at the Maun airport in Botswana. Imagine in the future airport screenings for biological agents, as well as for viruses like SARS and bird flu, to contain epidemics, and reduce the threat of bio-terror.

Starting in the fall you will be able to fly from Moffett Field in Silicon Valley to Napa via a Zeppelin blimp!

check out these pics for Delta’s Boeing Dreamliner aircraft (2010).

from Thompson Solutions

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THE 38-Floor tower has 150,000 LED’s on its walls. Specialists in interactive art design create themed light shows that last two months. A previous theme, Touch (video below), allowed people to control the lights on the building from a large touch screen across the street. For more information, click here.