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Watch Volocopter, The Personal Drone Helicopter, Make Its First Manned Flight

Watch Volocopter, The Personal Drone Helicopter, Make Its First Manned Flight We asked for flying cars and we got the Volocopter, a personal, 18-rotor drone/helicopter hybrid. And hey, it works! April 8, 2016 at 04:23PM

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A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador..

Article of the day is Typhoon Sudal. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

The Article of the day for April 9, 2016 is Typhoon Sudal . Typhoon Sudal was the strongest typhoon (the Northwestern Pacific Basin equivalent of a hurricane) in half a century to strike the island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. The entire island, only 17 km (11 mi) in length, experienced typhoon-force winds (at least 119 km/h or 74 mph), and 90% of the structures were damaged or destroyed. The storm formed on April 2, 2004, to the east of the country and attained tropical storm status on April 5. On April 9, it passed just south of Yap, and shortly thereafter its peak winds were estimated at 240 km/h (150 mph). After moving northwest and then northeast, Sudal became an extratropical cyclone on April 16 and dissipated two days later. Overall damage was $14 million, most of which was on Yap. No fatalities or serious injuries were reported, but more than 80 percent of the islanders were without clean running water after the storm. The name Sudal (Korean for "otter&qu

Picture of the day on April 9, 2016: A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.