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Author Archives: Writer
More bad luck with car parts
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 By MORRIS STEPHENSON – Just about the time I thought my ’97 Toyota Celica convertible, the “Little Mean Green Machine,” was going to be repaired after my May 21 accident, someone threw me a curve ball. … Continue reading
Bombardier Begins Running CSeries Jet Engines Again
Bombardier Inc. began running the engines again on its new CSeries jet Tuesday, the first such tests since a major failure last month during routine ground maintenance that damaged one of its aircraft and grounded the test fleet. Canadian transportation … Continue reading
Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones
WSJ’s Jack Nicas heads to North Carolina to test out the PowerUp 3.0, which turns an average paper airplane into a smartphone-controlled electric drone. DURHAM, N.C.—It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone. He folded a … Continue reading
Simply Copying Nature is No Way to Succeed at Inventing – Just Ask Leonardo …
One design that didn’t take off.Credit: tom-margie, CC BY-SA This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed Insights. Where do inventions come from? There’s no magic formula, but there are ways to … Continue reading
Simply copying nature is no way to succeed at inventing – just ask Leonardo da …
Where do inventions come from? There’s no magic formula, but there are ways to improve your creativity. One method is to look at nature. Some call this activity bionics, others call it biomimetics. Whatever you call it, it is big … Continue reading
Plane fans flock to fly-in
ASHEBORO — All eyes were on the sky Saturday at the Asheboro Regional Airport as the N.C. Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame’s 7th Annual Fly-in soared into high gear. By early afternoon, the tarmac was crowded with aircraft enthusiasts, … Continue reading
Students worked together to “recycle” projects
Brandon, 17, and other students in the Forest High School Exceptional Student Education program reworked nearly discarded “Vision 2040: A Global Perspective” green-technology projects from the school’s Engineering and Manufacturing Institute of Technology program. According to Kevin Christian, Marion County … Continue reading