Wednesday-Night

Why airborne automobiles will never take off
(The Economist) WHAT is it about “flying cars” that makes otherwise sensible engineers lose touch with reality? Ever since Glenn Curtiss, a seaplane pioneer, racing legend and the Wright brothers’ rival, tried to make a flying car early in the last century, tinkerers have dreamed of having an automobile […]

More on aviation and airlines and Wednesday-night.com ; Financial Times December 2008
France had banned Yemeni crash plane
(FT) Second air tragedy for French in matter of weeks after Yemenia Air jet accident kills 66 nationals out of 153 on board
Round-world flight planned for solar-powered plane 
A solar-powered plane its inventor hopes will […]

‘Hopenhagen’
Brilliant Greenpeace spoof of IHT
Ban has made climate change his signature issue. In September 2007, Ban invited world leaders, ranging from Nicolas Sarkozy to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to Al Gore to the United Nations headquarters for a climate change summit. (Foreign Policy even covered the event!) And there will be a repeat of […]

A new solar-powered aircraft attempts to fly around the world with zero emissions
The prototype will be unveiled on June 26th by Solar Impulse, a project the aviators run. Mr Piccard helped pilot Orbiter 3, the first balloon to fly non-stop around the world, and comes from a family of adventurers: his grandfather, Auguste, was the […]

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AECL ; Douglas Lightfoot’s letter of June 7 to Minister Lisa Raitt on Wednesday-Night.com Nuclear Page
Eric McConachie began his aviation career by joining his older brother, Grant, with CP Air. In 1958, McConachie left the company to join Canadair Ltd. During his nine years at Canadair, he was directly involved […]

Update as the talk continues
Michel Kelly-Gagnon: CN route best for region, business
The Gazette recently endorsed the choice of the CP line as the best route for the long-promised train shuttle between Trudeau airport and downtown (”Readers are right: CP route is miles better,” Editorial, April 18). Admittedly, the CP route has some good arguments in […]

Postscript 6 January 2009
2008 wasn’t all blah
By Wayne Larsen
(Westmount Examiner) Of all the personalities and newsmakers who contributed to the 2008 page in Westmount’s history book, most would agree that the year belonged to Marc Garneau. From the autumn of 2007, when after a loud round of protests from constituents Liberal leader Stephane Dion reversed […]

T H E  R E P O R T
Once again, Charles Cogan dazzled his Wednesday Night audience with a tour de force of political/intelligence commentary, largely focused on United States policy and actions in the Middle East and Afghanistan, but including the changing nature of warfare and discussion of the role of the UN […]

Overcoming the small annoyance for some of us (Westmount-Ville-Marie residents) of being in our fourth month of elections, with the only one that provoked true enthusiasm being over on November 4, we bravely tackle the important matters largely ignored by the Quebec electioneers.
The economy and world financial crisis would be at the top of our […]

Indian satellite captured by Moon
Further brakings will bring the Indian satellite down to a near-circular, 100km orbit from where it can begin its two-year mapping mission.
22 October
India chases China to moon with unmanned mission
SRIHARIKOTA, India (Reuters) - India launched its first unmanned moon mission on Wednesday, joining the Asian space race in the footsteps of […]