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NDTV
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Video: Spanish EF-18 Hornet Jet Nearly Crashes Into Crowd During Airshow
Madrid: A Spanish Air Force EF-18 Hornet fighter jet had a close call after it appeared to lose control and crash during an airshow at a crowded beach in Gijon over the weekend. The incident occurred on Sunday at San Lorenzo Bay in northern Spain's Asturias. Videos of the near crash have gone viral on social media, showing Hornet flying at very low altitude towards the beach packed with spectators, when it executed a hard right roll. The sudden manoeuvre made the jet descend lower than normal, making it seem like the jet was losing control mid-air. But the plane soon recovered stability and climbed up. The terrifying footage shows puffs of black smoke rising from the plane, shocking the audience, many of whom had their cameras rolling. A Spanish F18 nearly crashes during an airshow in Spain this weekend 😨 . . . 🎥©️VISUAIR — Virginie Sigonney (@GinieSigonney) July 28, 2025 The Spanish Air Force later took to X to explain what happened at the airshow and said the pilot performed the evasive manoeuvre to avoid hitting birds in the jet's flight path. A bird strike while the Hornet was flying at such a low angle toward a crowd could have resulted in a big disaster, and the pilot's timely actions saved many lives. Muchos nos habéis estado preguntando, por eso, en este hilo, os contamos qué pasó durante el festival aéreo de Gijón. Hilo 🧵 — Ejército del Aire y del Espacio (@EjercitoAire) July 28, 2025 "Many of you have been asking us, so in this thread, we'll tell you what happened during the Gijon air festival. As you have seen, one of our F-18 fighters performed an evasive manoeuvre upon detecting a flock of birds in its path. This action is part of the standard protocol to preserve both the pilot's safety and the public's security," the post in Spanish said. "Our aviators are trained to react in milliseconds to any unforeseen event. In this case, the pilot acted with exemplary speed and professionalism, avoiding a possible collision without compromising the exhibition. Safety is, and will continue to be, our top priority at every air show. Thank you to all attendees for your enthusiasm and trust. Let's keep flying together," it added. In a similar incident last month, the canopy of a Spanish EF2000 shattered after it took a bird strike during its airshow routine.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Honda CB125 Hornet vs Bajaj Pulsar N125: Engine, features & more compared
Honda CB125 Hornet vs Bajaj Pulsar N125. The 125cc streetfighter segment has a new contender as Honda has recently unveiled the CB125 Hornet. Among many notable contenders, it will compete with the Bajaj Pulsar N125 , which was launched last year. Both bikes aim to deliver everyday performance for streets along with a sporty flair in terms of design. Here's how the two stack up against each other. Honda CB125 Hornet vs Bajaj Pulsar N125: Engine specs On the performance front, the Honda CB125 Hornet is powered by a 123.94cc, single-cylinder engine that develops 11 hp at 7,500 rpm and 11.2 Nm of torque at 6,000 rpm. It comes mated to a 5-speed gearbox and is claimed to do 0–60 kmph in just 5.4 seconds, making it the quickest in its class. Weighing in at just 124 kg, it's also the lightest in the segment. Bajaj, meanwhile, offers a slightly larger 124.58cc engine in the Pulsar N125, which pushes out 12 hp and 11 Nm. Despite being a bit heavier at 127.5 kg, the Pulsar boasts a higher ground clearance of 198 mm compared to the Hornet's 166 mm. The seat height on the Pulsar is also taller at 795 mm, whereas the Honda is slightly lower and more accessible at 786 mm. Simple One review: Is this the EV to beat? | TOI Auto Honda CB125 Hornet vs Bajaj Pulsar N125: Features & hardware Where things get really interesting is in the feature department. Honda has taken a bold step by offering USD forks at the front - a segment-first - along with a rear monoshock. Braking is handled by a 240 mm front disc and a 130 mm rear drum, backed by single-channel ABS as standard. The Pulsar N125, in contrast, uses conventional telescopic fork setup and a rear monoshock. Brakes are similar in size to the Hornet, but ABS is not offered. When it comes to tech, Honda pulls ahead with a 4.2-inch TFT screen, Bluetooth pairing via the Honda Roadsync app, and a Type-C charging port. Bajaj's N125 is available in two variants: one with a basic LCD and the other with a larger display that includes call/message alerts via Bluetooth. However, its connectivity features are limited compared to what Honda offers. Both bikes come with LED lighting and a USB charging port.
Sydney Morning Herald
22-07-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall
Private Matthew Clarke had been deployed to Afghanistan for less than three weeks when an IED exploded under the armoured personnel carrier – a Bushmaster nicknamed Debbie – he was driving along a dry creek bed. The explosion broke 14 bones in his legs, ankles and feet. Another soldier was also badly wounded. Clarke was the first from his deployment in 2012 to be shipped home, but not the last: others would be killed or have limbs amputated. In uniform and wearing his medals on his first Anzac Day back home, Clarke was astonished when a woman stopped to ask him what medals he was wearing. Clarke replied he was one of 26,000 defence force personnel deployed to Afghanistan – Australia's longest war – from 2001 to 2021. Yet, the woman was confused. 'We'd been there for nine or 10 years, but she only related medals to World War I or II,' he said. When it opens in 2026, it is expected that a million visitors to the new Anzac Hall in the Australian War Memorial will be able to hear Clarke and fellow soldiers tell their stories, and see the battered Bushmaster on display in the new Afghanistan gallery that has been expanded from 60 square metres in the old hall to 700 square metres. The crew's unopened boxes of blue Gatorade (now filled with blue resin) can be seen on its roof racks with, among other objects, a makeshift sink. 'I've never seen anything like that in a museum,' Clarke told the Herald. In the late afternoon light of what will be a new peacekeeping gallery, the nose of a C-130 Hercules protrudes from a wall, as if it has plunged and crashed, a ghostly sight. But it is the F/A-18A 'Classic' Hornet, A21-022, that is the star of the show, displayed under a large opening that allows visitors to view it from above. The Classic is an earlier model than the 'Super Hornet' that starred in the movie Top Gun: Maverick. Shipped intact through Canberra by night, it was dropped into place in one piece using a 150-square-metre lift pit, an innovation designed for the project. The Hornet may have survived 6000 flying hours over Iraq and Syria in patrol and combat missions, but it is now wrapped in plastic and its tips protected with red pool noodles ahead of its debut appearance in the memorial. During its installation, Australian War Memorial logistics manager Kassandra Hobbs bought the pool noodles as a cost-saving measure to protect the old workhorse and reduce the chance of injuries to workers from its sharp edges, capable of taking out an eye. She bought 75 red, green and blue Funsafe pool noodles from the local Bunnings at $2 each, plus a couple of rolls of tape. At $162.44 all up, this was the best value in terms of collection protection, and would be reused. 'This cost is not exorbitant, considering the cost of having to fix objects if they were damaged,' she says. To prepare the large objects for display, and tell about 100,000 stories in the new hall, took some Anzac ingenuity, as employed by Hobbs, said deputy project director Christopher Widenbar. They also invented a 'rocket on a stick' of a kind unlikely to be found at the next Easter Show. When the museum was trying to conserve a WWII German V2 Rocket, for display on the top floor of the new hall, the cylindrical shape made it difficult to handle. So a spindle was fitted, allowing it to be rotated, rotisserie-style. Widenbar said this reduced the risk of injury, winning a safety prize along the way. Anzac Hall is the most ambitious in scale and size of the changes under way at the memorial. Initially proposed by former prime minister Scott Morrison, Anzac Hall is the third stage of the $548.7 million expansion. Creating a space to display 43 large technology items such as the Hornet and Debbie the Bushmaster, and cover Australia's involvement in Afghanistan, the Middle East from 1990, as well as peacekeeping from 1947, has meant soldiering on despite criticism. Executive project director Wayne Hitches gave this masthead a hard hat tour of the new Anzac Hall's column-free spaces. There are two floors comprising 7000 square metres of exhibition space, and Hitches said the team turned to a bridge manufacturer in Newcastle to build reinforced precast concrete Super-T beams, eliminating the need for columns in the 100-metre-long hall. The beams, each 33 metres long to span the hall and weighing 64 tonnes, made their way into the lift pit via an 800-tonne crane. Designed by Cox Architecture, which won an architecture competition, and implemented by project architects DJAS, the plan for Anzac Hall eliminated columns so that there would be no constraints in moving large objects. Hitches said: 'It's a bit of an engineering marvel, but they're also in line with what you would see underneath a bridge or a freeway.' A new roof shaped like the rays of the rising sun badge worn by the army is in place. Loading A giant wall made of sandstone from the quarry near Gosford faces the original facade of the heritage buildings, but the two are not allowed to touch. A Black Hawk helicopter will hang above the cafe. Criticism of the project included opposition to the unnecessary demolition of the existing Anzac Hall, built in 2001 and designed by Denton Corker Marshall. It won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for public architecture. It was also criticised as too big, that it flaunted normal approval processes, did not do enough to consider the heritage status of the old building, and The Guardian journalist Paul Daley likened it to Disneyland. Australian Institute of Architects national president Adam Haddow says the politics are similar to those surrounding the sale of the Sirius public housing block in Sydney's The Rocks to turn it into luxury accommodation. 'You get to a point where the project is the project, and you need to judge it based on how well the architect has responded to the brief and the delivery of a building,' Haddow said. 'We can still disagree with the original premise. And we can always believe that the original national award-winning building Anzac Hall should never have been demolished, but the politics is the problem. Not the design. 'There's the importance of the building after the argument.' Haddow said both Sirius and the War Memorial had turned out better than expected. The completed underground southern entrance, with its oculus and parade ground, by Studio SC (formerly Scott Carver) won four architecture awards in the ACT. The project was shortlisted last week for three national awards. War Memorial director Matthew Anderson said Herald war correspondent and historian Charles Bean envisaged the AWM as more than a memorial. 'He didn't just want us to know what they did and where they did it – he wanted us to know how they felt when they were doing it,' he said. 'There is an unbroken line from those who leapt from the Ascot landing boat at Gallipoli on the afternoon of April 25, 1915, to those who now sign the Tarin Kowt wall to record proudly their service in the Middle East Area of Operations. 'That is our 'why'. Today's veterans are owed nothing less and, frankly, they have waited long enough.' Australian War Memorial senior curator Dr Kerry Neale said the large objects, such as the Hornet, would not exist without the servicemen and women. 'We needed a space that would keep the memorial true to its mission, true to what Bean wanted, which is to interpret and share the experience of Australians at war. We can't end that at Vietnam … because that's not when Australia's experience of war ends.' The displays were far from a Top Gun: Maverick approach, she said. 'We look at the devastation that air strikes cause, to the coalition, the enemy, it's all compounded, and we're saying that the Hornet as a piece of technology is quite impressive, but all the people who work on them, and all of the consequences and repercussions, are part and parcel of the Hornet story.' To show the human elements, the Hornet display includes a mannequin wearing the flight suit of a tall pilot like Group Captain Michael Grant, who had to fold himself into a small space for 10 hours or more. It includes his P bag – a pocket-sized emergency loo, which folds up like an adult diaper and uses the same crystals. Neale said: 'They had them in their flight suit pockets, and would need to use them to relieve themselves. There was no pulling off to the side of the road.' On the ground nearby, a mannequin represents a soldier dressed in shorts in 50-degree heat who works to repair and refuel the plane. A large image of Dave Burgess' anti-war slogan, No War, painted on the Opera House sails in 2003 is portrayed near the Hornet. Widenbar said the larger galleries allowed the memorial to tell a more comprehensive story. Take Afghanistan: for the first time, it would include the voice of the diaspora community, and Afghans who were helped or hurt by what Australians did. The new galleries will tackle war and peacekeeping through stories, and will touch on the allegations in the Brereton report including Ben Roberts-Smith, and Isis brides. 'Why the hell did Australia go to war there? How is it connected to terrorism and 9/11? So we can actually talk about what Australians did in the various stages,' he said. Loading That ranged from combat, reconstruction and then the evacuation, which Widener said was happening as curators were finalising the selection of objects. 'We were almost trying to capture the end of a story that was happening live.' At the end of the tour we cross the walkway across the atrium that connects the new Anzac Hall to the original heritage building. Everything is designed so that the dome can be seen from every point, including from Parliament House, Hitches said. 'If you opened all the doors of the prime minister's office, you'd see the war memorial.' He said it is to remember the cost of sending people off to war.
The Age
22-07-2025
- General
- The Age
From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall
Private Matthew Clarke had been deployed to Afghanistan for less than three weeks when an IED exploded under the armoured personnel carrier – a Bushmaster nicknamed Debbie – he was driving along a dry creek bed. The explosion broke 14 bones in his legs, ankles and feet. Another soldier was also badly wounded. Clarke was the first from his deployment in 2012 to be shipped home, but not the last: others would be killed or have limbs amputated. In uniform and wearing his medals on his first Anzac Day back home, Clarke was astonished when a woman stopped to ask him what medals he was wearing. Clarke replied he was one of 26,000 defence force personnel deployed to Afghanistan – Australia's longest war – from 2001 to 2021. Yet, the woman was confused. 'We'd been there for nine or 10 years, but she only related medals to World War I or II,' he said. When it opens in 2026, it is expected that a million visitors to the new Anzac Hall in the Australian War Memorial will be able to hear Clarke and fellow soldiers tell their stories, and see the battered Bushmaster on display in the new Afghanistan gallery that has been expanded from 60 square metres in the old hall to 700 square metres. The crew's unopened boxes of blue Gatorade (now filled with blue resin) can be seen on its roof racks with, among other objects, a makeshift sink. 'I've never seen anything like that in a museum,' Clarke told the Herald. In the late afternoon light of what will be a new peacekeeping gallery, the nose of a C-130 Hercules protrudes from a wall, as if it has plunged and crashed, a ghostly sight. But it is the F/A-18A 'Classic' Hornet, A21-022, that is the star of the show, displayed under a large opening that allows visitors to view it from above. The Classic is an earlier model than the 'Super Hornet' that starred in the movie Top Gun: Maverick. Shipped intact through Canberra by night, it was dropped into place in one piece using a 150-square-metre lift pit, an innovation designed for the project. The Hornet may have survived 6000 flying hours over Iraq and Syria in patrol and combat missions, but it is now wrapped in plastic and its tips protected with red pool noodles ahead of its debut appearance in the memorial. During its installation, Australian War Memorial logistics manager Kassandra Hobbs bought the pool noodles as a cost-saving measure to protect the old workhorse and reduce the chance of injuries to workers from its sharp edges, capable of taking out an eye. She bought 75 red, green and blue Funsafe pool noodles from the local Bunnings at $2 each, plus a couple of rolls of tape. At $162.44 all up, this was the best value in terms of collection protection, and would be reused. 'This cost is not exorbitant, considering the cost of having to fix objects if they were damaged,' she says. To prepare the large objects for display, and tell about 100,000 stories in the new hall, took some Anzac ingenuity, as employed by Hobbs, said deputy project director Christopher Widenbar. They also invented a 'rocket on a stick' of a kind unlikely to be found at the next Easter Show. When the museum was trying to conserve a WWII German V2 Rocket, for display on the top floor of the new hall, the cylindrical shape made it difficult to handle. So a spindle was fitted, allowing it to be rotated, rotisserie-style. Widenbar said this reduced the risk of injury, winning a safety prize along the way. Anzac Hall is the most ambitious in scale and size of the changes under way at the memorial. Initially proposed by former prime minister Scott Morrison, Anzac Hall is the third stage of the $548.7 million expansion. Creating a space to display 43 large technology items such as the Hornet and Debbie the Bushmaster, and cover Australia's involvement in Afghanistan, the Middle East from 1990, as well as peacekeeping from 1947, has meant soldiering on despite criticism. Executive project director Wayne Hitches gave this masthead a hard hat tour of the new Anzac Hall's column-free spaces. There are two floors comprising 7000 square metres of exhibition space, and Hitches said the team turned to a bridge manufacturer in Newcastle to build reinforced precast concrete Super-T beams, eliminating the need for columns in the 100-metre-long hall. The beams, each 33 metres long to span the hall and weighing 64 tonnes, made their way into the lift pit via an 800-tonne crane. Designed by Cox Architecture, which won an architecture competition, and implemented by project architects DJAS, the plan for Anzac Hall eliminated columns so that there would be no constraints in moving large objects. Hitches said: 'It's a bit of an engineering marvel, but they're also in line with what you would see underneath a bridge or a freeway.' A new roof shaped like the rays of the rising sun badge worn by the army is in place. Loading A giant wall made of sandstone from the quarry near Gosford faces the original facade of the heritage buildings, but the two are not allowed to touch. A Black Hawk helicopter will hang above the cafe. Criticism of the project included opposition to the unnecessary demolition of the existing Anzac Hall, built in 2001 and designed by Denton Corker Marshall. It won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for public architecture. It was also criticised as too big, that it flaunted normal approval processes, did not do enough to consider the heritage status of the old building, and The Guardian journalist Paul Daley likened it to Disneyland. Australian Institute of Architects national president Adam Haddow says the politics are similar to those surrounding the sale of the Sirius public housing block in Sydney's The Rocks to turn it into luxury accommodation. 'You get to a point where the project is the project, and you need to judge it based on how well the architect has responded to the brief and the delivery of a building,' Haddow said. 'We can still disagree with the original premise. And we can always believe that the original national award-winning building Anzac Hall should never have been demolished, but the politics is the problem. Not the design. 'There's the importance of the building after the argument.' Haddow said both Sirius and the War Memorial had turned out better than expected. The completed underground southern entrance, with its oculus and parade ground, by Studio SC (formerly Scott Carver) won four architecture awards in the ACT. The project was shortlisted last week for three national awards. War Memorial director Matthew Anderson said Herald war correspondent and historian Charles Bean envisaged the AWM as more than a memorial. 'He didn't just want us to know what they did and where they did it – he wanted us to know how they felt when they were doing it,' he said. 'There is an unbroken line from those who leapt from the Ascot landing boat at Gallipoli on the afternoon of April 25, 1915, to those who now sign the Tarin Kowt wall to record proudly their service in the Middle East Area of Operations. 'That is our 'why'. Today's veterans are owed nothing less and, frankly, they have waited long enough.' Australian War Memorial senior curator Dr Kerry Neale said the large objects, such as the Hornet, would not exist without the servicemen and women. 'We needed a space that would keep the memorial true to its mission, true to what Bean wanted, which is to interpret and share the experience of Australians at war. We can't end that at Vietnam … because that's not when Australia's experience of war ends.' The displays were far from a Top Gun: Maverick approach, she said. 'We look at the devastation that air strikes cause, to the coalition, the enemy, it's all compounded, and we're saying that the Hornet as a piece of technology is quite impressive, but all the people who work on them, and all of the consequences and repercussions, are part and parcel of the Hornet story.' To show the human elements, the Hornet display includes a mannequin wearing the flight suit of a tall pilot like Group Captain Michael Grant, who had to fold himself into a small space for 10 hours or more. It includes his P bag – a pocket-sized emergency loo, which folds up like an adult diaper and uses the same crystals. Neale said: 'They had them in their flight suit pockets, and would need to use them to relieve themselves. There was no pulling off to the side of the road.' On the ground nearby, a mannequin represents a soldier dressed in shorts in 50-degree heat who works to repair and refuel the plane. A large image of Dave Burgess' anti-war slogan, No War, painted on the Opera House sails in 2003 is portrayed near the Hornet. Widenbar said the larger galleries allowed the memorial to tell a more comprehensive story. Take Afghanistan: for the first time, it would include the voice of the diaspora community, and Afghans who were helped or hurt by what Australians did. The new galleries will tackle war and peacekeeping through stories, and will touch on the allegations in the Brereton report including Ben Roberts-Smith, and Isis brides. 'Why the hell did Australia go to war there? How is it connected to terrorism and 9/11? So we can actually talk about what Australians did in the various stages,' he said. Loading That ranged from combat, reconstruction and then the evacuation, which Widener said was happening as curators were finalising the selection of objects. 'We were almost trying to capture the end of a story that was happening live.' At the end of the tour we cross the walkway across the atrium that connects the new Anzac Hall to the original heritage building. Everything is designed so that the dome can be seen from every point, including from Parliament House, Hitches said. 'If you opened all the doors of the prime minister's office, you'd see the war memorial.' He said it is to remember the cost of sending people off to war.
Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Trump's Tariffs Claim Another Victim: 2026 Dodge Hornet Production Postponed
Production of the 2026 is being postponed, as first reported by and confirmed to by Stellantis. The Hornet, including the , is built in Italy alongside the and therefore hit with a 25 percent import tariff. Dodge wouldn't confirm whether any 2026 Hornets will be built or if the will skip the 2026 model year. Things aren't looking great for the Dodge Hornet. The compact SUV, which arrived for the 2023 model year, managed to move 20,559 units in 2024, but sales took a nosedive in the second quarter of this year. Now, it seems that the Hornet's future is up in the air. Dodge is delaying production of the 2026 model as a result of the Trump administration's recently imposed tariffs on imported cars, as first reported by Automotive News. A Stellantis spokesperson confirmed the postponement to Car and Driver, stating that production of the Dodge Hornet "is postponed for the 2026 model year as we continue to assess the effects of U.S. tariff policies." The Hornet is currently built at a factory in Pomigliano d'Arco, Italy, alongside the mechanically related Alfa Romeo Tonale, and is therefore subject to a 25 percent import tariff. Stellantis did not confirm whether this meant that the Hornet would skip the 2026 model year entirely or if there is a possibility that a run of 2026 Hornets will be assembled later. Dodge sold 4108 Hornets in the first quarter of this year, down from 7419 in the first quarter of 2024. But sales really suffered in the second quarter, with just 1539 Hornets finding homes, down 64 percent from the same period the year before, when Dodge sold 4299 Hornets. Through the first half of this year, Hornet sales are down 52 percent year-over-year, although it is still the second-bestselling Dodge, as the electric Charger Daytona has struggled to take off; the Challenger was discontinued after 2023, and the gas-powered Charger Sixpack has yet to arrive to replace the previous combustion-engined Charger. The Hornet also isn't the first Dodge to face tariff-related challenges, with Dodge reducing the Charger Daytona lineup to just the Scat Pack, dropping the base R/T model for 2026 as sales of the Canada-built electric muscle car remain slow. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
