Posted in Luxury on 27 October 2009
San Diego is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the US with about 3 million people living in the vicinity. However, the city lacks a large airport and the present airport is a small stretch of dangerous runway which handles too many flights than it can handle.
There is also no space for the city to have a second airport. Thus, the nearby Pacific Ocean expanse is the only area where an airport could be built, like they did in Hong Kong. However, the Pacific is too deep for rocks and boulders to be sunk and an airport built over it.
Posted in Luxury on 9 September 2009
Come December, and Sukhoi, which has about 31 thousand employees will begin deliveries of its new Sukhoi. This special Superjet will be developed in collaboration with Finmeccanica of Italy subsidiary Alenia Aeronautica. The good news is that the Superjet 100 will be made at just €19.5 million, which is relatively a lot cheaper than many of the other superjets available.
Their low budget is already creating a lot of anxieties amongst their rivals. Sukhoi’s Superjet will definitely give a tough competition to their rivals such as, Embrader and Bombardier.Besides, the Superjet will also have a more comfortable flying environment. It will have 5 seat rows setup with a combination of style and ergonomics, which are considered to be the largest ever installed on regional transport aircraft.
Posted in Luxury on 18 August 2009
If you are the kind of person who would dream about flying high, but cannot actually own a plane because you never learned how to fly, you could get yourself the Phantom Bar. The Phantom Bar comes with Martin-Baker Mk7 ejection seats from an F4 Phantom. F4 Phantom is an amazing plane, if you did not know and you thought you were a great lover of airplanes.
While the bar looks quite tempting, it costs about $225,000 which means you must either be filthy rich, or really crazy about aircrafts in order to get it for yourself. Instead, I would recommend pubs or high end lounges to get this bar so that they can allow their esteemed customers to experience the joy of using Martin-Baker Mk7 ejection seats from an F4 Phantom.
Posted in Luxury on 14 August 2009
When you think about urban transportation, you might either think about bicycles if you are too green minded, or you just might think of mass transit like the rest of us would. Either ways, they are not efficient or useful to the problems faced by a large urban centre.
The Airbia is a system of airships which would fly from the suburbs to the city centre and would form an additional network of transportation in an urban realm. It allows easy hovering, landing and passenger access. It has the capacity to carry 400 people and would fly at a speed of 150 kilometres per hour. It would fly at a height of about 30 to 150 meters and is safe from all angles. It uses helium to fly and has been inspired by Zeppelin technologies.
Posted in Luxury on 31 July 2009
Antilles Seaplanes G-21 Super Goose is an amazing rich kid’s toy that could send him or her flying into the air. Of course, it is not literally a toy and is a propah high flying plane. It can not only fly in the air but can also navigate through the sea and is the remake of Grumman Goose.
The Grumman Goose carried people like Hemingway and MacArthur many decades ago. It uses the same design and plan but only the technology belongs to the 21st century. It doesn’t matter where you wanna go, you could fly this plane. The Antilles Seaplanes G-21 Super Goose could be used in icy waters and also in blazing sun and hence it all depends on you in the end.
Posted in Luxury on 20 July 2009
Parajet SkyCar is being touted as the world’s first road legal flying car which comes with an aggressive design and sporty looks, as the makers claim. Man’s dream has been to fly always and that was fulfilled when the flight was invented. However, most of us have secretly dreamt or fantasized about cars flying in the air.
Many have even gone ahead and designed such cars but none had ever been legally allowed to be manufactured and sold to public. Parajet SkyCar flew from London to Timbuktu in an attempt to trace the early adventurers who lost their lives in the dreary deserts of Saharan landscape.
Posted in Aircraft on 8 July 2009
Owning Limousines and Porsche was a matter of status symbol once, but the pedestal has been leveraged. It’s all about how many private aircrafts stand under your name. Hawker BeachCraft’s newest creation is worth considering incase you’re planning to upgrade your vehicle and have lots of cash to burn. The leaders of Turboprop have unleashed King Air 350i that has the right score on luxury and comfort.
Posted in Luxury on 28 June 2009
One of the dangers of flying is that you may not be able to see what is flying overhead or worse, what it is like just above you. Mr. Steele has designed the VirtualHUD which projects images from the plane’s propeller directly to you without obstructing anything. It is a simple and sophisticated bolt-on system which would be great for all prop planes.
It takes readouts from avionics package, GPS system, and thus provides the pilot with overlaying information, graphics, warning and waypoints. The HUD is readable and provides you with good images even when there is smoke, haze and other factors which reduce the visibility. The technology is of course simple but no one perhaps had thought of it earlier.
Posted in Luxury on 27 June 2009
Moulton B. Taylor in 1949 created the world’s first Aerocar and after that some were created in 1956. It is a transformer and can be used as both a plane and a car. Only five of these are still existing and is now owned by a Coloradian named Ed Sweeny. He had paid $150,000 21 years ago and now can fetch up to $1 million if he decides to sell it.
However, the guy plans to keep it as a family treasure and would not sell it for anything. It can reach speeds of 60 mph and when it is flying it can reach speeds of 150 mph. You would never be able to buy this awesome flying car and thus proves the theory that money cannot buy everything in life.
Posted in Aircraft, Outdoor on 9 June 2009
Now this piece of information left us in a tizzy. Apparently, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has decided to sell two of its luxury birds from Gulfstream for just $65 million. Now, we do not know if they are just trying to get rid of their extravagances in the times of the financial trouble or simply making way for new aircrafts. Even the company reps are not willing to shed a little light on than that.
Frankly if you ask us, the Gulfstream V and the Gulfstream 550 are both up for grabs at $29.25 million and $35.5 million respectively. We hear that the market price of both the aircrafts has come down crashing. Plus let’s not forget the matching paint jobs on both of them and the amazing flight experience they offer.
