 Ausgabe 3/2009Feature The Inferno of RotterdamThose who come here have only one thing on their minds: fighting fire, smoke and fear. Controlled chaos rules supreme at Europe’s only elite academy for firefighters. Land Speed Record Under PressureBreaking a land speed record isn’t easy these days. The sound barrier has been broken and even the sub-categories for electric- or Diesel-powered cars, for example, have been pushed to the limit. But one still remains: steam. Recently a British team finally broke the 103-year-old land speed record for steam-powered vehicles. Spitsbergen Spitsbergen, the archipelago in the far North, is a unique arctic wilderness and at the same time a hub of an astounding variety of human activities, ranging from coal mining to satellite tracking, carbon storage research and tons of scientific projects. An on-site report. |