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This Giant Basket Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
All photos courtesy of WarkaWater During the spring of 2012, an Italian architect named Arturo Vittori decided to go for a ride through Ethiopia. After flying to the capital city of Addis Ababa for a fancy convention on aircraft cabin design, … Continue reading
Drones Bring Fight and Flight to Battle against Poachers [Slide Show]
Tracking endangered orangutans was no easy feat a scant three years ago. It required counting treetop nests in places like the Leuser Ecosystem on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island to gauge the health of a population that was under fire from poachers … Continue reading
VX Aerospace: Reaching New Heights
VX Aerospace in Morganton took to the tarmac on June 6 at the Foothills Regional Airport as company and airport employees gathered around to watch the newly designed VX-1 KittyHawk model aircraft take flight for the first time. VX Aerospace … Continue reading
Exchange of A model Black Hawks generate cost savings
Army exercises option to modernize helicopter The Utility Helicopters Project Office handed over the logbook and keys for three UH-60A Black Hawk aircraft to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. during an aircraft exchange/sale June 11. The aircraft exchange/sale, also known as the … Continue reading
Small and dangerous: FAA rules mean new planes with old technology
Death by bird strike Why a red-tailed hawk brought down a $7 million helicopter The Sikorsky helicopter that lifted off from the Louisiana coast on Jan. 4, 2009, should have been a model of safety for the two pilots and … Continue reading
Airliners Become Weathermen as Sensors Upend Forecasting
As a storm predicted to deliver freezing rain and ice neared Dallas last November, airlines began canceling hundreds of flights. Not Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) Armed with a new generation of sensors measuring moisture in the air on 87 of … Continue reading
NKY plane crash mirrors US trend
Pilot Rod Tarter and Evan Ryan in the Starduster Too, made in 1972. Ryan died Sept. 3, 2007, when the plane crashed, and Tarter died weeks after. The cause of the crash is still unresolved.(Photo: Provided) WALTON – Nearly seven … Continue reading