Archive for May, 2008

13 May, 2008 | No comments

Competition to Boeing

Chineses are going to start manufacture of own huge air liners.
The last Sunday became day of an official birth of the new company which field of activity will include manufacture of capacious passenger planes on 150 and more landing places.
Engineers and aircraft designers of the country earlier have already mastered assembly of small air courts - more recently, last December, first of them was represented. And this autumn 90-seater planes will already start service passengers on local aviaroutes.
All these initiatives can be explained by China’s intention to find independence of foreign manufacturers, in particular, American company “Boeing”, which planes transport about half of passengers in the country.
According to analysts, in the near future Chinese aviabuilding companies will be engaged in this business- in fact continuous growth of passenger aviatransportations quantity, observed all over the world, causes demand  for additional air liners.

11 May, 2008 | No comments

Most dangerous beaches of the world

Rest on a beach usually associates with lying on warm sand and hardly causes images of death. However, Forbes Magazine has published the next annual list of the most dangerous beaches in the world.
1. New Smyrna Beach, Florida. On this resort within the last year the tourists have for more than hundred times faced sharks, but, fortunately, only one such contact has lead to death, and 17 people have been bitten.
2. Hacks Point Beach, District Kent, state of Maryland and Beachwood West beach in state of New Jersey were included into group of the most polluted beaches. Both coastal zones do not answer ecological standards of the USA since 2006.
3. Northern Australia. All coast of Northern Australia is captivated with Chironex fleckeri, known as jellyfishes-boxes. This fatally dangerous jellyfish possesses one of the strongest animal poisons. Its burn can cause death within several minutes owing to respiratory standstill, infringement of intimate rhythm and arterial pressure falling. For last 100 years 60 people died from this poison.
4. Beaches of state of Florida are dangerous because of lightning. During the period since 1997 till 2006 71 people died owing to lightning attack.
5. Beaches of Florida are also dangerous due to accidents on water.
6. Beaches of District Brevard in Florida are also known as a place with strong streams. In 2007, 10 people died, not having coped with the stream.

6 May, 2008 | No comments

The largest park in the Europe will be opened in Iceland

Next month in Iceland the biggest in the Europe national park Vatnajokull which area borrows thirteen percent of territory of the country (half of territory of the Wales) will be opened.
The landscape of park is extremely various. In territory more than three millions acres high-mountainous plateaus, volcanoes, streams, gorges, sandy plains, the rivers, lakes are located.
Mighty Falls Detifoss, the most extensive European glacier Vatnajokull, and also seven volcanoes, the majority from which operating, are among the main sights. In park hotel centers, tourist bases are constructed, foot routes are carried out.
The status of national park will allow Vatnajokull to avoid excessive urbanization and pollution that will keep it for the future generations. It is supposed, that more than 40 000 tourists will visit the park a year.

3 May, 2008 | No comments

New Zealand has headed tourist rating

New Zealand has headed one hundred of the best tourist directions of the world, and the Greek island Rhodes is recognized the most popular vacation spot in the Europe.
Despite of a present economic crisis, rise in price for fuel, concern of ecological situation in a number of corners of the world, from time to time arising chaos at the airports, the passion to travel does not die away. Tourism is still popular.