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“We are actually doing a very similar thing to what Burt Munro did in 1967. His bike was 47 years old, he was also chasing 200 miles per hour, and it took him about 20 years too.” Anyone who travels over 200mph (321.9kmh) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States, where Munro’s world speed record of 296.26 kmh for an under-1000cc bike still stands, is awarded a red hat, a prize coveted by many but achieved by very few. Garrett said he has always wanted one of those red hats. He initially built a sidecar racer – which took three and a half years, involved 500 people and cos...

As the almost equally determined Wayne Johnson’s documentary details (surely his own labour of love), Hart dedicated any spare moment he had to creating something John Britten or Burt Munro would be proud of. Taking an engineers eye to his monumental task of building a dragster jet car, the self-styled, would-be “world’s fastest ginger” initially threw himself into 18 months of intense study/Google research, before scouring the world for ways to be able to make his fantasy vehicle on a budget. Thanks to Kiwi ingenuity (which included a soda stream bottle as a shut off, Holden Kings...

The former State Insurance building in 2009, before it was damaged by the Canterbury earthquakes. The building is described as “highly significant” in the city's district plan, and is listed with Heritage New Zealand. It was included in the city council’s “Dirty 30” list of sites considered barriers to Christchurch's rebuild, but is now identified on the list as having “a commitment to action” from its owners. The building was sold for $6.5 million in 2017 by the estate of the late inventor and property developer John Britten, after a long insurance dispute over quake damage...

Britten-Norman’s Trislander—a commuter’s three engine wonder Britten-Norman Trislander at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford UK—©2018 Joseph May/Travel for Aircraft Precisely termed by aircraft maker Britten-Norman (est. 1954 and named for designers John Britten and Demond Norman) as the BN-2A Mk III Trislander, it is commonly called the Britten-Norman Trislander.  An STOL rough field performer it can take off in a bit under 1500 feet, though more typically 1950 feet, with further advantages of low speed handling ease, low noise levels, economy of operation as well as three engine r...

£84m for green aviation projects announced 1st February 2021 14:55 Europe/London The Government has announced £84m is being invested in three projects to make aviation greener. Half of that total is coming through the govt’s ATI programme with the rest matched by industry. The three projects are: GKN Aerospace-led project H2GEAR will receive a £27.2m government grant to develop an innovative liquid hydrogen propulsion system for regional air travel, which could be scaled up for larger aircraft and longer journeys ZeroAvia’s HyFlyer II will receive a £12.3m government grant to scale up...