MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the radio to warn the pilot, his older brother Dick Rutan. But Dick never heard the message. Nine […]
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Bangladeshi hiker set to begin 12-year round-the-world walk on Friday
To paraphrase The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, you may think it’s a long way down the Pacific Crest Trail to Mexico, but that’s just peanuts compared to what Bangladeshi hiker Saiful Islam Shanto has planned. At 10.30am local time this Friday, March 22, starting from in front of the National Parliament Building (Jatiya Sangsad […]