Machines that Go Bing! -- The Gadgets Blog

A Swiss man has become the first to cross the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing after jumping out of a plane at 8200 feet.

Maybe you can’t afford a full-sized jet but how about $9,500 for a simulator that’s a cut above the average X-plane installation.

The latest Virgin Galactic / Scaled Composites design for the successor to their first space vehicle (called Spaceship 1 appropriately enough!) has been unwrapped and displayed to the World’s press by the glowing egos of Sir Richard Branson (“the bearded one”) and Burt Rutan.