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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Edward Snowden’s Strangely Free Life – As a Robot
Edward Snowden lay on his back in the rear of a Ford Escape, hidden from view and momentarily unconscious, as I drove him to the Whitney museum one recent morning to meet some friends from the art world. Along West … Continue reading
Tractors: Reducing The Risk
They’re big, powerful and efficient. But operating today’s four-wheel drive tractors requires all the same attention to safety as tractor models of the past. Tractor overturns continue to cause serious tractor accidents across the United States. However, as Theresa Zaluckyj … Continue reading
New rules are ‘common sense,’ say Naperville, Fox Valley drone and radio-controlled plane users
Whether photographing real estate with drones or flying remote-controlled planes for fun, local operators say they know the airspace is public and acknowledge the need for rules like those just released by the Federal Aviation Administration for smaller unmanned aerial … Continue reading
Retrotechtacular: ASCII Art in the 19th Century
Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the earliest forms of computer-generated graphics … Continue reading
Aerobats Flying Club’s second annual Fly-In takes flight
model airplanes of all shapes and sizes took to the sky near Pillow on Sunday morning as the Aerobats Flying Club held their second annual Carl Bredbenner Fly-In. Around ten pilots gathered from as far away as Lock Haven with … Continue reading
‘It’s not about who’s better’ at just-for-fun gathering of model-airplane pilots – Omaha World
One of Jake Fahn’s more memorable crashes is the time his plane collided with a duck midair. Such crashes are par for the course when radio-controlled model airplanes, which are often made of foam or lightweight plastic, fly hundreds of … Continue reading
Plenty of rounds left in these combines
In a central Kansas wheat field, two combines roar to life and start to make the rounds, slowly bringing in the harvest. Now, this in itself is not an unusual sight for Kansas in mid-June. But what is unusual is … Continue reading