Beijing Airport World's Largest Airport

Beijing Airport World's Largest Airport


Terminal which is claimed as the architect Norman Foster, the largest enclosed building in the world is Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3, China. According to AFP, China to build a terminal with a 2.7 billion dollar cost.

Length of 3.25 kilometers. Size 98 floors with 170 hectares or equivalent to a football field. This is the largest airport terminal in the world!

The world's largest airport

The airport was purposely built to welcome the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Built by the famous architect Norman Foster since the year 2003 to 2008. 3.25 kilometers long and 98 hectares of floor area (equivalent to 170 football fields). This is the largest airport terminal in the world!

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space tourists.

Presenting the final draft of Virgin Galactic spacecraft that will carry space tourists luar.Pesawat was based on the concept of the award-winning X-Prize, called SpaceShipOne, which will be carried by the aircraft carrier before being fired into orbit. Virgin spaceship SpaceShipOne exactly the same, but its size is enlarged so that it can carry eight passengers in one trip into space.

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, said the space tourism business has great potential and will be planned to begin in 2010. "I think it's very important to make this project is commercially successful," he told a news conference in New York.

"If we managed to make it happen then we open the lock from the private sector to launch the aircraft systems and space technology." Branson added this tour to the same space like mobile phones and the Internet.

"It could be a competitor in the investment for mobile phones and the Internet after the opening of its origin, the military, the private sector."

Virgin Galactic already contacted spacecraft designer, Burt Rutan, to build aircraft carriers, the White Knight Two or WK2. Making WK2 carrier aircraft called the already nearly complete and will menajalani CBA test later this year. Meanwhile, SpaceShipTwo, or SS2, according to Virgin Galactic is over 60%. SS2 and WK2 done in a hangar owned by Burt Rutan in California.

SS2 plane will carry two pilot astronauts and six passengers, who can afford the ticket price of $ 200,000 or approximately Rp. 2 billion. They will fly from the new runway is called the Spaceport in the desert of New Mexico, USA. The total journey from beginning to end approximately 2.5 hours to reach 110 kilometers altitude.

In that altitude the passengers will be in a situation without gravity for a few minutes and watch the Earth and the blackness of outer space.

Virgin Galactic says it has recorded 200 prospective passengers who are about 85 000 memsan where others say the desire to join the space tourism. And advances that reach tens of millions of dollars already paid to Virgin Galactic to guarantee a place to enjoy the experience of space.

Sir Richard Branson said the launch system for Virgin's space tourism can also be used by industrial and researchers. "The fact that the system has the ability to carry a certain load or low-cost satellites is very important," he told the launch SS2 at the Museum of Natural History. And with the SS ", according to Branson, then the researchers have the possibility to do more experiments into space in order to answer questions about Earth's climate and the mysteries of the solar system.

The design of SS2 and WK2 presented Wednesday, January 23. Essentially is the award-winning SpaceShipOne Ansari X-Prize in 2005 with a prize of U.S. $ 10 juta.Yang different is the size of SS2 to double from SS1 to be able to carry eight passengers. The simulation SS2 now can be used to train pilots.

Virgin Galactic is one of the few companies who wish to carry out space tourism. Site owners Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, also plans to tour space with his own version, as well as the European airline industry, EADS Astrium, which is developing persawat own space.

Currently a new space tourism can be executed via the Russian Soyuz launcher with ticket prices are reported to reach U.S. $ 20 million. With ticket prices, tourists will also get a chance to stop over briefly in the International Space Station. You interested? Time to start saving from now.

into space tourism

More and more companies will realize the tourist into space. A California company, XCOR Aerospace, has unveiled details rocket plane that could fly into sub-orbital extent of more than 37 miles (approximately 59 km) above Earth.

Lynx, a plane made by XCOR, will be about the size of a small private jet. The aircraft was expected to begin flying two or more years in 2010.

Launching details plane's two seats in unison with XCOR Aerospace announced the entry into space tourism industry. "We deliberately designed this plane to fly and operate like commercial aircraft," said Jeff Greason, chief executive officer (CEO) XCOR. "Lynx will be the greatest vehicle in the sub-earth orbit," added Rick Searfoss, XCOR test pilot who is also a former astronaut and commander of NASA's space shuttles.

XCOR Announcement is out two months after the designer Burt Rutan spaceship and billionaire Richard Branson launched a new model of SpaceShipTwo. New aircraft being developed in space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, owned by Branson's launch flight test later this year.

According to XCOR, pending the outcome of negotiations, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AU), the U.S. has handed over the development of contract research and testing of various parts of the Lynx. There was no further explanation.

Lynx is designed to takeoff from runway (runway) such aircraft in general. Maximum speed twice the speed of sound (Mach 2). Altitude flying over 200 thousand feet (60 960 meters), the plane came down with the twist to land on the runway.

Shaped like airplane version of the Long-EZ Rutan design, the Lynx has two wings on the back of the body. Vertical wing tip shape.

Using liquid-fueled engines with clean burning (without pollution), the Lynx is expected to make several flights a day. "The aircraft is to provide affordable access to space for individuals and researchers," said Greason. Plane version in the future can be used for research as well as commercial.

XCOR has spent nine years developing rocket engines in a factory near the Mojave Airport, north of Los Angeles, California. Currently the company has developed and flown two rocket-powered aircraft. XCOR also in the business machine and a rocket propulsion system.

Lynx flight fare will be offered competitive. With an estimated development projects worth USD 10 million (about USD 100 billion with the exchange rate of Rp 10,000 per U.S. $ 1), Lynx tickets pegged to USD 100 thousand (approximately USD 1 billion) per person.

Half of the fee is cheaper than a set SpaceShipTwo of USD 200 thousand (about USD 2 billion) per person. SpaceShipTwo is developed after the successful SpaceShipOne as the first private rocket to reach space in 2004. With SpaceShipTwo, the passenger-maximum six people and two pilot-assured can experience 4.5 minutes of weightlessness (float) in the cabin before returning to earth.

space shuttle

Unlike the American space shuttle, Buran, which is made by Russia, is very powerful. Buran is transported using a special aircraft Antonov. Shape Buran Orbiter not much different from America. Buran project was begun when America makes Orbiter. The Soviet Union think they also need Orbiter like America. So they make the Buran. Buran Energia rocket uses a super-powered. However, the Energia rocket can only be used once. Unlike the U.S. which currently Commencing Orbiter also use rocket Orbiter, the Buran was like a rocket when Commencing the display. When Buran destroyed, the aircraft carrier that specialized in made Antonov cargo plane. The aircraft also became the largest aircraft in the world.

accident nasa's space shuttle - collection of aircraft

NASA's space shuttle exploded after entering the atmosphere over Texas territory PD Date 1 November 2003. The main cause of PD-hole one wing after launch 16 days earlier. Total losses amounted to 13 billion U.S. dollars including the cost of the investigation, and not including VAT + PPH.