British engineers to attempt to break 376.3mph motorcycle speed record in 30-ft-long vehicle

A 30ft-long vehicle sporting a Rolls Royce engine normally used in helicopters will attempt to reclaim the motorcycle land speed record for Britain. Engineer and ex-racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the ‘streamliner’ bike which will make its record attempt next year at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. Behind the wheel will be … Read more

Speed: British engineers will try to break the 376.3mph motorcycle record in a 30-ft-long vehicle

A 30ft-long vehicle sporting a Rolls Royce engine normally used in helicopters will attempt to reclaim the motorcycle land speed record for Britain. Engineer and ex-racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the ‘streamliner’ bike which will make its record attempt next year at the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia. Behind the wheel will be … Read more

Engineers have created ‘the whitest paint yet’

Engineers in the US claim to have created ‘the whitest paint yet’ – which they say will help tackle global warming.   The ultra-white coating, developed at Purdue University in Indiana, reflects up to 98.1 per cent of sunlight while sending away infrared heat.  Currently, paints on the market designed to reject heat only reflect somewhere between 80 and … Read more

Hundreds of British Gas engineers share their fury

Hundreds of ‘devastated’ British Gas engineers who have lost their jobs today vented their fury after they refused to sign up to tougher employment terms under a controversial ‘fire and rehire’ scheme which has cast a shadow over chief executive Chris O’Shea’s first year in office.  The energy supplier, which is one of the UK’s Big … Read more

SpaceX engineers staged 2005 mutiny after being left without food while working on Pacific island

SpaceX engineers once staged a mutiny after they were left without food and cigarettes while working ‘like slaves’ to build a launch pad on an island in the Pacific during the company’s early years, according to a new book. The strike, which was staged in 2005, took place as SpaceX’s rocket engineers were racing to … Read more

Engineers lay out parts of WWII Lancaster bomber like a giant AIRFIX model

Looking like the largest Airfix model you could possibly imagine, parts of a World War Two Lancaster bomber are laid-out in a hangar waiting to be assembled. But this is not a toy.  The pieces of wing, fuselage, bombs, machine guns and propeller blades are all real. The famous aircraft is three years into a … Read more

Engineers create school of robotic fish that can coordinate their movements

A school of robotic fish that are able to coordinate their movements underwater – just like real fish – have been created by a team of engineers.  Harvard University experts created the fish-inspired bots to work without any external control, mimicking the collective behaviours groups of fish demonstrate. Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronised behaviours … Read more

British Gas engineers start five-day strike

British Gas engineers have started a five-day strike amid a dispute over accusations of a ‘fire and rehire’ policy. GMB, the union representing employees of British Gas, said the strike will cause ‘massive disruption to customers in the depths of winter’. It said several members were mounting socially distanced picket lines across the UK after being ‘provoked’ … Read more

More than 7,000 British Gas engineers will go on strike for five days from January 7

More than 7,000 British Gas engineers will go on strike for five days from January 7 in row over pay and conditions, GMB union says The strike will be followed by further stoppages to be announced later The announcement follows a 9-1 vote in favour of industrial action  The union said British Gas has set … Read more

Chinese engineers banned from working on Britain’s next nuclear plant after storm over Huawei

Chinese engineers are banned from working on Britain’s next nuclear plant after the storm over Huawei working on the UK’s 5G China General Nuclear confined to providing finance in the Sizewell project   Follows concern over security risk of giving China role in Britain’s infrastructure  EDF is leading two £20billion projects at Sizewell and sister plant … Read more