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Murcia is convinced that she has a special smell. So he has decided bottling him and turning him into a perfume

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If Seville has a special color, as those of the river sang, Murcia can boast another identity equally striking: its smell. At least he considers his City Council, that He has opted by a fragrance inspired by the aromas of the city, such as orange blossom or myrtle, to use it as an institutional gift. In fact so convinced is the town hall that has dedicated more than 11,000 euros to launch it in the framework of the celebration of the 1,200 years from the town. Of course the perfume has a name: “Fire ritual”. A perfume inspired by Murcia? That’s how it is. At the moment there are not many details that have transcended the Murcian Olfative Initiative, but they allow us to get an idea of ​​what is their approach. The news emerged on Sunday as a result of A tweet Posted by Ginés Ruiz, local spokesman of the PSOE. In him, pulling a sneer, he threw a polish to the local government headed by the popular José Ballesta. “Dear neighbors of Murcia: do not forget that July 7 is the last day to pay the IBI, that the mayor has to pay things like the ‘aromatic mist commemorating the #Murcia12’ to 11,325.60 euros,” Ironizaba Ruiz. The message was accompanied by The photo of a document in which, indeed, a budget item of 11,300 euros is collected for something called “aromatic mist.” Click on the image to go to Tweet. And what is it? Ruiz’s tweet led several media, basically RRNEWS, Murcia’s opinion and Murcia Economyto pull the thread and contact the City Council to learn more about that mysterious “aromatic mist.” Thanks to them we know that their real name is ‘Fire ritual’ and consists neither more nor less than a fragrance with the smell of Murcia “elaborated by Iberchem and that will be presented shortly. What exactly does it mean to smell Murcia? “It smells like the color of the flames”, replyenigmatic, the Consistory. Because? The opinion reveals that the City Council took the first leg of an unsuspected place: its tourism officia. Visitors who come there in search of information often speak the smell of orange blossom, so … why not capture that olfactory essence in a perfume? The idea, insist from the municipal government, is that “a part of Murcia always travels with visitors” and encouraged them to return. “The idea is that this initiative arising from the ‘Murcia 1200’ project lasts and extends as a gift beyond this year, being able to take this aroma everywhere where entities and groups of civil society be named Murcia with their talent,” They clarify. For now, the fragrance will become gift for those who visit Murcia in official acts or during relevant quotes. The important thing: What does it smell like? The City Council advances that it is “a unique fragrance inspired by Murcia and its history”, with “representative” aromas such as orange blossom or myrtle. “It’s a fragrance Niche Inspired by oriental, wood, smoke touches, spicy points … When you smell it, it transports you to that warm fire, with a sweet touch and Ambarado“, They clarify. The idea is that people can spray perfume and use it to set rooms. The name, ‘Fire ritual’, is inspired by one of the large celebrations of the town: the spring parties, and more specifically in its climax, The burning of the catafalco of the sardine. The news has jumped with the fragrance and ready to appear. The person responsible for forming it has been the Iberchem company and in the project a member of the Royal Perfume Academy would have participated. Images | Esteban Palacios Blanco (Flickr) and Laura Chouette (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | Vitoria has been the greatest city in Spain for years. Now he has turned against him for a gardener strike

AI is turning software programming into a assembly chain

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AI is not only transforming the labor market, but also It is changing the nature of the work itself and the tasks that They make up every position. What was previously a highly Specialized and well paidlike that of Software Engineernow Run risk If becoming much more routine, segmented and, above all, accelerated. Something closer to an operator in a assembly chain. According to The New York Timessome Amazon engineers already begin to feel like that. From the industrial revolution to digital automation The impact of AI is already beginning to be noticed among the Technology template. Not so much for the destruction of jobs, as for the transformation of Those who already existed. Often It is equated The arrival of AI with the Industrial Revolution for the change of technological paradigm that was lived. The History has demonstrated that, in the medium term, the automation was not linked to the destruction of employment, but to A displacement and transformation of labor tasks. During the industrial revolution, and then with the passage to Model ‘Fordist’ Mass production with assembly chain, no jobs were destroyed. Its nature was changed. With the Ford assembly chain, the manufacture of cars in workshops was replaced in an artisanal way, by workers located in A assembly line They specialized in doing a very specific task. That was the key to Increase productivity and reduce costs. Automation allowed workers to will focus on specific functionswhile the machines assumed the heaviest or repetitive work. According to A study conducted by MIT researchers and the University of Pennsylvania, Amazon, Google and Microsoft are using their AI tools in a similar way. Software operators With the As a co -pilotlarge technological ones are automating certain tasks of their software engineers that previously required working hours. That liberated time dedicate it to Improve existing products or get new products in less development time. That is, this process is taking a new level, where IA begins to play the role equivalent to industrial machinery of the nineteenth century. Andy Jassy, ​​CEO of Amazon, acknowledged in A LinkedIn post That thanks to this automation with AI, the company had “saved the equivalent of 4,500 years of development work.” Amazon Robotic Warehouse Amazon logistics centers can serve as an example of what is happening now in their software development offices. Some years ago, the employees who prepared Amazon shipments had to travel the long halls of their stores to gather the products of each order. However, now technology It has robotized This whole process to eliminate that search task. With the automation of its centers It has not been dispensed with of those jobs, but are now dedicated to specific tasks. of packaging, the number of orders that each employee can process and His work has been devalued. That warehouse staff now assures that his work is monotonousrepetitive and poorly paid. The same that happened with the operators of the assembly chains. Software engineers begin to notice the same symptoms, with an acceleration of their workflows and greater automation. “If they tell you that you have to review the code, it is never a fun part of work. When you work with these tools (of AI attendance), it is most of the work,” assured Simon Willison, veteran programmer and blogger. The consequences of this automation are already beginning to be noticed in the Junior positions of different sectorsand the programming is exempt. The agents of Which generate code They do the task that the Junior previously developed and, of that practice, acquired the experience that allowed them to ascend. Without this learning, senior engineers will not be trained that tomorrow can review the code generated by an AI and detect errors, or face adequate development strategies. In Xataka | No one is considered a working class in Spain: the percentage has fallen from 50% to 16% in twenty years Image | AmazonUnspash (Adrian Sulyok, Global UI UX Design Agency procreator, Kseniia Ilinykh)

China is turning its roofs into power plants. He has achieved in three months what in Europe costs three years

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China has turned its roofs into solar engines, and record time. In just three months he has installed more photovoltaic on roof than Europe in years. Why is it important. China not only leads the energy transition, but is changing the usual rhythms to which it can occur. According to the latest report of Rystad Energyhas installed 36 GW of solar energy on roof only during the first quarter of 2025. That is more than some European countries reach after three years. The Energy Newspaper He summarizes it in a phrase: China does everything big. In figures: 60 GW Solares in total during the first three months of 2025. Of these, 36 GW (60%) in roofs. 130 GW of distributed lots are foreseen throughout 2025. The large facilities will even exceed that figure: 167 GW projected. The context. China is closing its XIV five -year plan. The New regulations of the National Energy Administration (NEA), in force since May, has created a counterreloj race to install before the regulatory cut. There is an emergency climate generated by … Self -consumption incentives. Network access restrictions. And the liberalization of green certificate trade. Those 36 GW are superior to what countries such as Spain or France can install for more than two years, counting all of solar facilities. The EU, together, installed 56 GW throughout 2023, and only one part was in roofs. In detail. The thrust has not been homogeneous. The provinces with greater normative flexibility, such as Jiangsu and Guangdong, have triggered the photovoltaic on roofs. Others, such as Interior Mongolia or Jilin, have restricted both the self -consumption that they have barely contributed. Behind the photo of the record there are certain strap: Some large commercial projects can no longer sell electricity to the network. It is increasing legal and contractual complexity. Promoters and investors face a more uncertain environment. And now what. China will continue to install at a speed far higher than we are accustomed to in the West. And the distributed model will grow, although foreseebly with certain adjustments. Europe lives much more slow display marked by a dense bureaucracy. If you keep the rhythm, China will end up making more facilities on roofs in a year than the sum of many countries in a decade. In Xataka | If Europe does not want to freeze this winter this winter will have to pay much more for gas. You can thank China Outstanding image | Bill Mead in Unspash

The relays are turning the plan into an open war

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Installing a relay seems easy. Until it is. In this new installment of ‘Domotize or die in the attempt‘, Ana Boria faces one of the key steps of the connected home: Convert traditional switches into manageable devices from the mobile. It seems a simple technical step, but it is enough to see the video to understand that things are not so simple. “New relay, allegedly well installed,” Ana starts. What follows are tests, errors, stairs and an application that keeps the settings … if you insist enough. Because sometimes it is not enough to do well: you have to keep “five times” and go through several menus so that the changes are applied. Lost hours for a design failure that would end up despairing anyone. While Ana Lidia with the installation, the opinions of her co -workers are divided. Mario has it very clear: “Ana Boria, You are looking at the RAE Success and your name comes out“But Ana’s boss is not so convinced:” Too head and persistent has been. “ And, in between, Alex, his partner, who enters the scene when things are complicated at all. There is a scene that summarizes everything: “If there are flames, you let me know,” he says just after making changes in the electrical panel. There are no surreal moments. Relays that do not fit on the switches. “Cosos Naranjitas” that seemed good idea, But they can no longer be returned (Spoiler: They bought them solely). Attempts to put everything as it is. Tests that lengthen more than the account and end phrases like “I have gone to goat.” Self -imposed zancadillas and an installation that, at this rhythm, goes for many more days than expected. Are there relars to install? Yes. How long does it take in each? It depends on the day, humor and whether the application wants to collaborate. ¿And the smart lock? ‘Domotize or die in the attempt’ is a reflection of what many of us could live if we aspire to achieve the same results as Ana. How is this story moving forward? Find out in our video. Images | Xataka In Xataka | There is a new fever among ultra -ups: fed up with technology, they want houses as “dumb” as possible

We are in 2025 and the Wi -Fi of the airplanes is still terrible. Starlink is demonstrating that we are at the turning point

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June 30, 2016. BBC publishes an article called: How does the Wi -Fi work in the airplanes and why is it so bad? Almost 10 years later, we are almost in the same place. The Earth has revolved for almost a decade but in terms of connecting to Internet networks from the air it seems that we are completely stagnant. Or it seemed. 2016. “Some compare their speed with that of the beginning of the Internet, when, with the soundtrack of the atrocious beep of the modem, they had to be put on patience while any page was loaded.” With this paragraph Yolanda Valery for BBC In 2016 what was the experience of trying to connect to the Internet from the air. In that same article it was explained that connecting to the Internet from a flight guaranteed a certain guarantee to do very basic connected tasks, such as sending an email. But it was also mentioned that you could already forget to see a content in streaming Or, at least, assume that it was going to be a really tedious experience. We remain the same. In 2016, the offer of a wifi on board was relatively recent. In 2013 we told you that Iberia made this service available to the client at a price of five euros … for five megas. Shortly after, Enrique Dans narrated his experience In an Iberia plane and pointed out that the option was really interesting but that the result was very bad. And even raised if he had to be offered under the conditions of that time. Already in 2017, in Xataka We wondered why we still have no wifi in all airplanes. And we could say the same right now, with a good handful of airplanes that do not offer it … and above all: those who offer it and serve little or nothing. If we enter On Iberia’s own page We verify that in its reference to the connection packages it is specified that allow “Internet navigation, messenger, email, download and sending documents”. That is, tasks that require poor discharge speed. And they emphasize that it is “it is possible that during some moments of the trip the signal can come weakened” or that it lends itself with “three different suppliers, so you can experience differences between one flight or another.” Why is it so bad? The main reason why the Wi -Fi in the airplanes is so bad is how the Internet connection is obtained. You can take “global, satellite or land coverage,” depending on the flight, they point out on the Iberia website. This means that the plane receiver can connect to telephone antennas or satellites if the latter are not available. On a transatlantic flight, that connection is more unstable since Terrestrial antennas are far away. It only remains to be connected to a satellite so that the shipment and reception of data is complicated. First because the distance is much broader than when we have our feet on the floor and, second, because the plane moves hundreds of kilometers per hour, which complicates the reception and sending of the data. The big problem is that although the bandwidths that users have to share are now the demands of applications. Not only is the Quality of the images we load on Instagramis also the huge amount of data that an application like Netflix needs to play your streaming videos. Already in 2020, in Xataka We estimated that one hour sailing on this platform consumes between one and seven GB (depending on quality). A turning point? Andrew J. Hawkins explains in The Verge that the time may have come to say goodbye to these connections. In the aforementioned article, it indicates its experience aboard an E-175 Embraer, a 88-seat narrow fuselage plane that United Airlines uses for short flights. This, specifically, lasted 90 minutes. The plane is one of the first connected to Starlink and, in fact, will begin offering on May 15. The figures collected are highly hopeful. Connected to the airport Wi -Fi, Hawkins said navigating with a 305 Mbps discharge and a load of 249. The latency was 5 ms. During the flight, the speed was 196 Mbps of discharge and 27.3 Mbps of load with a latency of 19 ms. The discharge speed is close to the experience before climbing to the plane and although the figures are remote from what it offers on land, they are notable compared to those we had so far. During the whole flight. Hawkins breaks another spear in favor of the system and United Airlines: the wifi was active throughout the flight. “The service works from the door to the door, not only above 10,000 feet, restriction under which some other systems operate. As soon as I sat, they told me to connect to the Wi-Fi using United mobile application. “ In fact, in your article to The VergeThe author reflects the speeds during takeoff (234.8 Mbps of discharge and 14.9 Mbps of load with a latency of 19 ms) and the landing (72.6 Mbps of discharge, 26.1 Mbps of load and 90 ms of latency) when the worst data was collected. The time, despite this, would be brief because as soon as the plane touched earth again offered good figures with 231.5 Mbps of discharge. Although, this time, with the worst load data with only 3.01. Well to watch movies. But not so much to work. Because Hawking himself points out that he could use Instagram and Tiktok, Disney Plus, follow the ceremony of the new Pope for CNN or watch a live match “with a crystalline image quality.” However, the result was much less impressive when loading a file on Google Drive that took him seven minutes. Explains that this is because Starlink’s own infrastructure It is designed to download content and not so much to raise it, hence the difference in figures between the two processes. Differential. How much would you be willing to pay … Read more

The English Court is turning towards experience

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The English Court has finally closed two of its most emblematic outlet centers in Madrid: Boadilla del Monte and Vista Alegre, as reported Digital economy. The first had been inactive for months. The second ceased its activity on February 9. They are not isolated facts, but part of a broader process: the model of stores with permanent discounts is losing weight in the group’s strategy. What’s happening: The two centers disappear from Official Outlets Directory. Other previous closures (As Rivas Vaciamadrid, La Vaguada or Méndez Álvaro, among others) point to a replication pattern. Only six operational outlets remain in the Community of Madrid. The company is now committed to reforming premium centers such as Castilian, Preciados or San José de Valderas. In perspective. The rise of Fast Fashion and online trade have reconfigured consumption. Accessing discounts no longer requires visiting a specific physical store: it is enough to open an app. The attractiveness of the physical outlet vanishes if it offers nothing more than a low price. Between the lines: Purchase experience is the new currency. Digital customers not only seek savings: they look for a story, a brand, a pleasant environment. The transformation goes beyond commercial: it is cultural. Yes, but. Although the online channel gains weight, the English Court does not renounce the physical. Rather, it reorient your efforts towards strategic centers and with greater potential profitability. The closing of outlets does not imply total divestment, but selectivity. This rethinking is also a new axiom: the ideal client is no longer the one who looks for holes last season, but who values ​​selection, environment, attention and brand. The question is no longer whether it is cheap, but it is worth going. In Xataka | “I am very perfectionist”: the answer that recruiters no longer want to hear in work interviews Outstanding image | Xataka

An unexpected buyer is turning houses, temples and abandoned factories from Japan into tourist accommodations: China

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Something is happening in Japan for a while to this part, a phenomenon that began with waves of Chinese tourists who came to the nation To stayand then extended through zones, where the proliferation of “new chinatowns” was giving rise to neighborhoods with Chinese than Japanese. The theme became something more serious when this “chinification” reached one of the national bastions: Pop culture. The latest: Beijing is buying its most traditional architecture and turning it into Resort tourist. Kyoto as shuttle. He told him Nikkei weekend In an extensive report. In a Japan where modernity threatens to eclipse centuries of tradition, the figure of Yuichi Ishikura embodies a phenomenon as unexpected as decisive: the Rescue of the architectural heritage traditional by Chinese citizens. Born in the province of Fujian and raised from adolescence in Kyoto, Ishikura found her vocation after a personal experience in a guest house during her university studies in the United States. Upon his return to Japan in 2015, with just 23 years, he acquired his first Machiya (Typical narrow and deep wood housing built since the EDO period) for just over 10 million yen. He transformed it into a tourist accommodation and, in just three years, he had recovered his investment. Since then he has renewed More than 60 properties Similar, including the Shichikutei house, near the Kyoto station, and has declared its intention to become the number one operator of Machiyas throughout Japan. The threat of the Machiya. It is not a trivial theme in Japan. The Kyo-Machiya are architectural jewelry of the old capital, and are disappearing to the alarming rhythm of about 800 a yearpressed for the high cost of its maintenance, inheritance taxes and the real estate voracity that replaces them with apartments and floors. And while the Japanese seem to resign themselves to that disappearance, foreign investors (especially of Chinese origin) They are turning that crisis into the opportunity. Here, like Nikkei explainedFigures like Lee Wendy, a native restorative of Shanghai who have rehabilitated 40 Machiya and perfectly reflect this trend. The phenomenon has grown so much that, according to a study by the city of Kyoto, a 30 % of the accommodations Under municipal license are in the hands of some 500 foreigners, many of them Chinese buyers who have converted these traditional houses in tourist accommodations without losing their aesthetic or historical value. Temples for sale. The phenomenon is not limited to houses. In rural areas such as Shiso, in Hyogo Prefecture, Buddhist temples They have also started Change hands in the absence of successors priests. One of these temples, acquired by a Chinese buyer after the death of the main priest in 2017, has generated local controversy for the informal use of the enclosure. Meanwhile, other temples have had to publicly go out to Define rumors Sales disseminated on platforms as Rednotea Chinese social network in which deceptive ads circulate that promise tax benefits for acquiring religious properties. One of the most popular cases was the Jisso-in Monzeki templewith 800 years of history, which He denied categorically Be for sale, after detecting false publications aimed at Chinese investors. The fiscal attractiveness. Behind this fever for acquiring temples, sanctuaries and Japanese traditional houses Nikkei had That there is a double attraction: on the one hand, the cultural and architectural value that represents for many Chinese citizens a difficult heritage in their native country. On the other, and equally important, the favorable fiscal conditions For religious institutions in Japan, which attract investors with commercial vision. Real estate sector executives in Osaka confirm that they have intermediate in the sale of religious properties to companies based in Hong Kong and are currently promoting other enclosures in Kyoto and Nara. And the sake. The phenomenon has gone much further. The conservation of the cultural legacy has also reached other spheres. In 2019, Zhou Chunbao, Shanghai businessman, Matsuoshuzojo acquireda historic Sake distillery in the saga prefecture that was on the verge of closing due to management problems. Motivated by their desire that the Chinese people know the Japanese culture through the Sake, Zhou revitalized the company and its production, which in 2022 reached regional recognition by winning the highest award in the Junmai Daiginjo category. Zhou’s intervention saved from oblivion a local institution whose history goes back at the end of the Edo period, at a time when the sake industry is It has drastically reducedwith a 40 % decrease in the number of distilleries and a 20 % drop of its historical volume of national sales. The “soul” of Japan. Thus, and while the tangible heritage of Japan (from traditional houses to centenary temples and ancestral distilleries) faces a slow but constant disappearance due to the lack of successors, it seems that it is a generation of Chinese investors who are willing to assume the challenge of keeping it. What for some represents a loss of cultural control, for others it becomes an unexpected form of continuity. Thus, in the face of the passivity or inability of certain local sectors, new heirs (Chinese) are arranged not only to invest capital, but also to revalue with sensitivity and pragmatism that for centuries has been the material essence of Japanese identity. Image | GIVE CRUSE In Xataka | Japan is living something unpublished in its most emblematic neighborhoods: the “chinification” of anime and video games In Xataka | A phenomenon that has already happened in New York is spreading throughout Japan: neighborhoods with younger than Japanese

The best way to play PS5 without turning on the console

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For players from PlayStation 5one of the ideal accessories that allows you to play video games without having a console is PlayStation Portal. If you had been thinking about time and you had never decided to make the jump, now in Aliexpress you can buy Portal PlayStation by 183.48 euros Applying the code ‘MES10‘During the purchase process. PlayStation 5 Remote Player Portal | Distance player * Some price may have changed from the last review You can have a PS5 in your pocket with PlayStation Portal The Portal PlayStation It has one 8 -inch tactile LCD screen and Full HD resolution, in which you can enjoy your PS5 video game games. The command is integrated into the screen and has its own functions of Sony, such as haptic vibration and adaptive triggers. You should know that it does not allow you to download games or enjoy them in physical format. This means that you will always have to have an Internet connection to enjoy everything PlayStation Portal offers. As for its battery, it has a capacity of 4,370 mAh and offers a Autonomy of about 5-6 hours. Today, there are many video games that allow you to play in the cloud through PlayStation Portal, through the subscription service PlayStation Premiumso this device is a good investment if you are looking for entertainment for your trips, for example. You may also be interested in these other accessories for PS5 Mars Gaming MPS5-B2, RGB support for standard and digital PS5 Slim * Some price may have changed from the last review Powera Dual fast charger for 2 x dualsense wireless controls * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | John Tones (Xataka) and Sony In Xataka | PlayStation 5 Pro vs PlayStation 5: These are all the differences between the two Sony consoles In Xataka | Two years ago I bought a PS5. I wish someone would have told me that I also needed these accessories

Thus an engineer ended up turning a plane into his own home

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Can you imagine spending the rest of your life on a plane? Not flying, not going from one destination to another, but living inside it. Day after day. Like a real home, with all that implies. As CNBC points outthis was Bruce Campbell’s dream, a retired electrical engineer who currently lives in a Boeing 727 In the middle of a forest on the outskirts of Portland, in Oregon, United States. When a commercial plane reaches the end of its useful life, It is likely to end up dismantled. The most valuable components – like engines, airplane systems or landing gear – usually recover, but fuselage can be abandoned for years in one of the great world aircraft cemeteriesalthough there are recycling initiatives for aluminum and titanium parts. Bruce Campbell was not convinced by the idea that structures as complex and sophisticated as commercial aircraft ended up unscathed and forgotten in a desert corner. He thought that if they could no longer fly, at least they could remain useful in another way: as habitable spaces. With that idea in mind, in 1999 he bought the fuselage of a retired passenger plane, along with several of its internal components. According to USA Todaypaid for everything $ 100,000 (about 190,000 to the current change). A BOEING 757 converted at home But buying the plane was just the beginning. The next challenge was to move it to its new destination. To do so, the aircraft had to be partially disassembled and transported in truck to its farm on the outskirts of Portland. Once there, between trees and vegetation, piece by piece was assembled again. Today it rests on a support structure that connects with the landing train and wings. Bruce has maintained much of the original plane design, including some higher seats and compartments. Visitors access one of the emergency doors and, when touring the central hall, they find an inhabited space, full of everyday objects: a microwave, a table, a refrigerator and several computers. One of them especially attracts attention: a Apple Macintosh Se From the end of the 80s, where visitors can leave a message. One of the spaces that most attract attention is the command cabin, where several of the original controls used by pilots to keep the plane in the air are still preserved. The thrust levers, the controls and much of the instrument panel remain in place, almost as if the plane were ready to take off. In the rest of the interior, wiring and electrical systems are completely in sight, a detail that fits with the mentality of Bruce Campbell, an electrical engineer of training. Far from reserving its unique housing as a personal refuge, Campbell has more than two decades receiving visitors. To those who approach with curiosity, it offers a small tour inside the plane turned into the house, where he shares his vision and his way of life. It should be remembered that we talk about a Boeing 727a narrow fuselage aircraft whose production was extended between 1962 and 1984. It was widely used in medium -range domestic and international routes – with an autonomy of up to 4,720 km in its most advanced versions – and became one of the most popular models of its time. More than 1,800 units were manufactured, although many were removed in the 90s, when airlines began to replace them with more efficient models. Images | Airplanehome/Bruce Campbell In Xataka | Faced with the fear of losing a fortune, the US denies a button off its F-35. It has something worse: the control of the “blue line”

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