Team Behind Virgin Galactic Aircraft Unveils A Hybrid Electric Flying Car

           Forget those gas-guzzling flying cars. Now you can drive and fly while saving lots of money on fuel.

Watch out, Terrafugia: Flying car competition is coming your way and it's much more efficient. The BiPod, developed by Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan, is already taking test flights. And don't write this off as an aviation geek's pipe dream--Scaled Composites is the company behind Virgin Galactic's spacecraft and launch vehicles, including SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnight Two. It's also a subsidiary of Northrup Grumman.
The hybrid flying car, dubbed Model 367 BiPod, went from preliminary design to inaugural flight (in March) in just four months, according to Aviation Week. The two-seater, which is designed to be driven like a car from the left cockpit and flown like a plan on the right, features two 450cc internal combustion engines, 15 kW motors on both the driving wheels and the motor-driven propellers, and lithium batteries that are recharged during flight. In aircraft mode, the BiPod can go 760 miles at 100 mph. As a car, the fiberglass and carbon fiber vehicle squeezes out 820 miles on a tank of gas and 35 miles in electric mode.

There aren't plans to commercially produce the BiPod quite yet; the model vehicle was built to measure outside interest in continued development. But the recent news that the Terrafugia Transition--another flying car--has been cleared for use by the U.S. National Highway Safety Administration means that other companies may be more interested in this kind of vehicle, simply because many of the legal hurdles have already been cleared.

Terrafugia's commercial model rolls off production lines next year. After that, a BiPod-like hybrid model may not be far behind.
[Image: Scaled Composites] 

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Here’s A Religious Experience by Dilia Oviedo

Here’s A Religious Experience by Dilia Oviedo
Credits
Concept/Photography – Dilia Oviedo
Styling – Ana Sting
Hair & Make Up – Lara Tascon & Lucie Gardiner-Worship
Models – Lauren Auerbach @ UNO Barcelona & Ann Müürsepp @ Miah Management
Special Thanks: Shoot 115 – Estudio Fotográfico

Veil: Stylist own

Hood by Pianura Studio. Jersey by Tara Jarmon

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Jersey by Tara Jarmon. Pants by Twin Set

Jersey by Tara Jarmon. Skirt by Tara Jarmon. Boots by Twin Set.

Ring: Models own

Lace veil: Stylist own

Crown by Ana Sting. Dress by Tara Jarmon

Crown made by Ana Sting

Dress by Twin Set

Dress by Forever 21. Boots by Twin Set.

Lace veil: Stylist Own. Dress by Tara Jarmon.

Veil/Belt: Stylist/Models own. Dress by Tara Jarmon

Crown made by Ana Sting

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Casa Cubo Agraz Arquitectos

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  The Cube House weightlessly becomes part of the site while its volumes give in to a geometry that fits together with light and landscape topography. The project itself is an answer to the place where it is set upon.
  A north inclined terrain offers attractive views to a ravine rich in beautiful scenes. This is why the schematic solution took the highest part of the hill, allowing a natural placing of the precincts. In other words, it is an attempt to emulate the way that nature itself would have solved the scheme. This solution wants to maintain the hillside intact, promoting an earthly architecture.
  The natural slope suggested placing all public areas of the house over the upper bound, saving the low topography for the private precincts of the program; this is, to allow the dwelling of the land unevenness.
  In the lower level, towards the street, are the carports as well as the house entrance, living and dinning rooms, kitchen and terrace, making a public come together. And this too is where a double height urn for contemplation occurs, expressing itself outwards as the great cube raises.
  In the lower plant, bedrooms and a small living room possess the garden, taking shelter in the deepness of the terrain. It is the place where private life finds its turn, refugee in the endless green that sees the house come up to take outside plenitude.
  The ulterior goal of the Cube House is to be a literal translation of the idea of a tectonic box, decanting its very own architectural essence in order to enhance the dweller’s life.

  Project File: CUBE HOUSE
   
  Completion date: 2006
  Location: Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
  Designer: Ricardo Agraz
  Photographer: Mito Covarrubias
  Site area: 780m2   
  Construction area: 612m2 

  
  

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To Dream of Japan

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  Photographer: Tina Patni

  Make-up: Ginno Alducente
  

  Hair : Jojo Padua

  Fashion: Amato Haute Couture www.amatohautecouture.com

  
  
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