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Author Archives: Writer
Los Angeles, 1969: Capturing Vintage California On Mad Men
Dan Bishop has been Mad Men’s production designer since the show began, which means he’s spent much of the last seven years faking Los Angeles for New York. With the new season spending significant time in L.A., he has a … Continue reading
US Airways Tweeted a NSFW Photo Involving Model Airplane Insertion
Working customer service for an airline has to be a thankless job. We’re sure the urge strikes to tell a customer exactly where they should stick their complaint. Apparently, the social media manager for US Airways wanted to go a … Continue reading
Does Physics Have a Problem?
It was 2012, and physicists had just announced the big news: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider had delivered what looked like (and was later confirmed to be) a Higgs particle, the capstone of a decades-long search to complete the so-called Standard … Continue reading
3D Printing High-Strength Carbon Composites Using PEEK, PAEK
There’s been a flurry of news recently about 3D printing carbon composites, both inside and outside the rarefied atmosphere of aerospace. We told you about the MarkOne, the first commercial carbon fiber 3D printer using continuous fiber. Then we reported … Continue reading
Time traveler
Great rewards Our polished example flew as a tailwheel airplane for its first three decades before an owner in 1974 beefed up the fuselage and installed a set of Edo 56-7850A straight floats. Nearly 25 years later, another owner added … Continue reading
Pat Tillman’s death re-examined by ESPN’s OTL, more Media Circus
The Noise Report SI.com examines some of the more notable sports media stories of the past week: 1. Universal Sports has aired the Boston Marathon since 2011 but the network will undoubtedly get its biggest viewership ever for this year’s … Continue reading
Anxious to be aloft
JEROME – Fewer than 40 of the 12,571 Corsair warplanes churned out in the U.S. during World War II and the Korean War are airworthy today. One sits in a hangar at Jerome County Airport, its nose up against a … Continue reading