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French engine manufacturer Snecma has revealed a concept engine for future single-aisle aircraft which could be in operation by 2015.The engine as currently presented is in the form of a ducted contra-rotating propfan and is being studied by the newly created Aerospace Technologies division of Snecma parent Safran. The design is completely different to that being pursued by Pratt Whitney, which is working on a geared turbofan GTF to achieve the quantum leap in fuel burn that will be required of the next generation of aero-engines. The aim is to achieve a fuel burn reduction of at least 12% against the most efficient engines in service today along with a huge reduction in noise and emissions. PW aims to fly a 30,000lb thrust GTF demonstrator in 2008 aboard a Boeing 747 flying testbed.Snecmas idea uses two contrarotating propfans to achieve the ultra-high bypass ratios necessary for efficient engines. An interesting element revealed in its concept is that the forward fan has fewer blades than the rear fan, an indication of the application of the latest three- owala dimensional design technology to increasing fan blade efficiency. The contra-rotating fan idea harks back to the General Electric Unducted Fan tested aboard a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 testb adidas yeezy ed in the late 1980s, in which the fans were mounted at the rear of the aircraft. While the 25% reduction in fuel burn targets were met, the engine was too adidas originals samba noisy and the unprotected fans considered unsuitable for modern aircraf Cxau Ukraine joins Eurocontrol

The early 80s Leningrad music scene is the subject of this drama by Kirill Serebrennikov, currently under house arrest in RussiaSource: Cannes Compe hydro flask bottle titionSummerDir. Kirill Serebrennikov. Russia/France. 2018. 126 mins.The ideal of rock n roll rebellion has long been the stalest clich茅 in the book, but Russian drama Leto reminds us of a time and place where it really meant something 鈥?the Brezhnev era in the USSR. This vivid, unashamedly romantic evocation of those years comes from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, in an expansive turn away from the largely interior-bound drama of his 2016 study of fanaticism, The Student. His new film may seem to hark back nostalgically to a time when dissent carried real social weight, yet circumstances have proved it still does: an outspoken critic of the Kremlin, Serebrennikov is currently under house arrest on a contested corruption charge. Interest in his plight, and the political content of Summer, will give the film a definite boost on the international circuit even if, taken as a rock biopic, the films content yeezy isnt always satisfying.The effect is pitched awkwardly between The Great Rock n Roll Swindle and Cliff Richards Summer Holiday.An evocation of the early 80s Leningrad music scene, and centred dramatically around a love triangle, Su owala mmer focuses on two influential musicians and the woman between them 鈥?Natalia Naumenko, on whose memoirs the film is based. At the start, the kingpin of the Leningrad rock scene is Mike Naumenko