The motor uses a whoosh of air to push its two pistons up and down.
Simpson didn't have an engineering degree, either, but that didn't stop him from constructing a motorcycle with a bicycle and a stolen motor when he was an Air Force staff sergeant on Saipan during WWII.
Long popular on smartphones and tablets, the acclaimed titles include Where's My Water, The SimsTMFreePlay, Air Penguin, Mini Motor Racing and many more.
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However, motor fuel costs fell 0.2% while air transport dropped by 6.8%.
Among the companies attempting to lure foreign investors are phone company China Netcom, China Construction Bank, Air China, China Power and carmaker Dongfeng Motor.
As government officials acknowledge, the worsening air pollution in Hong Kong is due mainly to motor vehicles.
Also being announced are the iON Air Pro 2-the second-generation of the company's flagship Air Pro line, and the iON Speed Pro for motor and marine sports and racing.
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They say air quality is improving, thanks to tighter emissions standards for motor-vehicles and to the moving of one the city's biggest polluters, a steel plant in the western suburbs, to an offshore island.
"You run through a field and the paraglider wing catches the wind, it fills with air, blows you off the ground, you switch on the motor and off you go, you're flying, " he said.
The stainless steel enclosure houses the same 1, 400-watt DC brushless motor as the previous models, dispersing HEPA-filtered "sheets" of air through a single laser-cut slit in each of two wings that extend from the Tap's sides.
Although it has been in the air on more than 20 occasions, this was the first time its hybrid motor had been ignited.
It scrapes away (rather than evaporates) water using two jets of HEPA-filtered air that reach top speeds of 430 mph and are powered by a proprietary motor that accelerates from a dead stop to 95, 000 rpm in 0.7 second flat.
Nissan Motor Co. recalled 480, 000 vehicles globally, some 137, 000 of them in Japan, for the air bag problem.
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