15 June 1919, British pilots made the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight.
Still six years before, in 1913, the London tabloid the Daily Mail announced a reward of 10 thousand pounds to anyone who will fly from anywhere in the United States, Canada, or Newfoundland to any point in great Britain or Ireland, in 72 hours. However, the competition pilots had to be postponed due to the First world war.
14 June 1919, experienced British pilots Alcock and brown flew from St. John’s (Newfoundland) on a converted Vickers Vimy bomber. In a way, they faced many difficulties because of the failure of the generator pilots were no radio, and heated suits, and then they hit the storm, and the snow, who scored a carburetor engine, brown had several times to reach him on the wing and run it manually. Landing also went over a year before reaching Ireland and seeing the green field, the pilots went to him. Local residents tried to show signs that this field is actually a swamp and unfit for landing, but the pilots felt that they just welcome. Immediately after touching, the chassis was stuck in the ground and the aircraft overturned. However, the pilots were not injured. The entire flight took them almost 16 and a half hours, for which they were more than three thousand kilometers.
Plane Vickers Vimy after the “viscous” landing in Ireland
Nowadays dozens of aircraft make transatlantic flights every day. And recently, the airline-discounter Ryanair even promised that the cost of the ticket will soon be only 10 pounds of Sterligov.
June 15, 2006 bill gates announced his departure from Microsoft. On this day, the founder of the company said that within two years, plans to leave a permanent job in it to focus on charity.
Bill Gates
Although the latter product, which gates participated, was released in 1983, the portable computer TRS–80 Model 100, in the 2000s, he not only remained the face of the company, but also defined its strategy and overall has managed many processes.
Their intentions, gates confirmed during the CES in January 2008, and in July took a dip after his philanthropy.
15 Jun 2005 Microsoft has released a “truncated” Windows XP Edition N, which could not even play audio CDs. This version is the fruit of a long confrontation between Microsoft and the European Commission, which accused the software giant of unfair competition. In the view of antitrust authorities, supply Windows Media Player with the operating system deprived the creators of other players all the chances of market share.
After the appointment of a fine of half a billion dollars, and unsuccessful appeals, Microsoft raised the white flag. New Windows XP Edition N comes without WMP and offered the user to install the player on his choice. Curiously, the company itself wanted to call this version Reduced Media Edition (comparatively correctly translated “Version with trimmed media”), but the European Commission is naturally opposed to such frankness. Approved in the name N means “not with Media Player” (“no Media Player”).
The only marking N Edition in the system properties
Windows XP N Edition could not play audio CDs
Since N Edition cost exactly the same as the “full version”, she was practically nobody interested in: computer manufacturers have bought about a thousand licenses. Thus, Microsoft lost virtually nothing, and antitrust authorities successfully portrayed a flurry of activity.