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...The end-goal for Kittyhawk, a Mountain View-based start-up owned by Google co-founder Larry Page, who is also an investor in Wisk, is to build fully autonomous aircraft for single occupants....
...The 80-room Le Massif boasts a lavish spa and central location but its real selling point is up on the mountain....
...Though he speaks in little above a whisper, each word hangs potent in the air....
...Ernest Shackleton’s escape from Antarctica in 1916 is often described as the greatest survival story ever told – in a month-long ordeal he sailed 900 miles in a leaking lifeboat, then trekked across the mountains...
...Much air cargo – 75 per cent of BA World Cargo’s volumes – travels in the bellies of passenger aircraft and passenger traffic has held up better than freight....
...Take, for example, the mounting of the V-twins that characterise Harleys....
...“With the V-22 it’s on top of them before they know it.”...
...In Taihongcun, a village in Beichuan county, two houses and a few paddy fields were all that remained of the 800-strong community before the quake split the mountain above....
...And still they all wait, for exit visas, travel permits and tickets, passenger boats then cargo ships, as Fry frantically wheels and deals behind the scenes....
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