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Flight simulation of a harrier jump-jet

Harrier aircraft flight simulation. Supercomputer image of a Harrier aircraft hovering over a runway in a virtual wind tunnel. The lines beneath the aircraft show the air flow from the aircraft's engine. The lines colours show the air's tempera- ture gradient, from red (highest), through orange, yellow, green, and blue, to purple (lowest). The Harrier is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft which directs air from its Rolls- Royce Pegasus engine through 4 swivelling nozzles along the side of its fuselage. The nozzles point downwards for take-off, before rotating backwards to accelerate the aircraft into wing-borne flight

© NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTRE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

LFDCA-LFB Dockhead fire station, Bermondsey

Opened in 1928, Dockhead fire station became the setting for the fictitious Blackwall fire station in the popular television series London's Burning. Dockhead is located in Wolseley Street, Bermondsey, SE London. It is due to be relocated with the building of a new station combining Old Kent Road and Dockhead during 2013/2014

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Symbol @ & binary code to represent E-mail

E-mail symbol. Computer artwork representing electronic mail (e-mail), showing the symbol "@" (meaning "at") with streams of zeroes and ones (binary digits). The symbol "@" is used in the address of the users of e-mail, a method whereby computer users can send and receive text and images over the internet. The internet is an international network of computers which includes the World Wide Web. The binary system represents numbers and computer commands with a series of "0"s and "1"s. Computers use it to communicate with each other because an electric pulse can be used to represent a "1", whilst the absence of a pulse registers a "0"

© LAGUNA DESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY