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PPX: V-22 Flies at Last

By popsci Posted 11.28.2007 at 2:24 pm 0 Comments

Some 21 years after development began on the military's infamous aircraft, the V-22 Osprey is at long last flying missions. Well before the January 1st end-date on our PPX proposition, V22FLY has been delisted and will payout at POP$100. The U.S. Marine Corp has released video footage of the tiltrotor in action (above) and confirmed the sorties with PopSci; the market clearly called this one, with the price rising steadily until its halt at $80.50 per share.—Abby Seiff

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I Was a Trojan Shark

Tucked inside a robotic great white, filmmaker Fabien Cousteau captures rare footage of the deep-sea world

By Kalee Thompson Posted 05.04.2005 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

At 1,200 pounds and 14 feet long, "Troy" is chunkier than the average great white shark. He might smell kind of funny too. But do the pods of sharp-toothed predators he swam among last winter know that, inside, there's just a man? Or that it was Fabien Cousteau, grandson of pioneering undersea explorer Jacques, surreptitiously recording their every movement?

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