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If you can dream it, 3D printer Object Shop can make it

LUTZ — Their customers run the gamut from artists to surgeons to aeronautical engineers. At the Object Shop, Pasco’s first 3-D printing company, if you can design it, they can model it. Brian Zuckerman and Grant Posner opened the store … Continue reading

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UAF researchers ponder possibilities for unmanned aircraft – Fairbanks Daily News

FAIRBANKS — Eyal Saiet’s job is looking for the sweet spot — that connection between machine and science that makes sense. For instance, Saiet is thinking of flying an unmanned aircraft through the blow of a surfacing bowhead whale to … Continue reading

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Airbus Helicopters Presses Ahead With New Models

Airbus Helicopters is making its public debut in China this week for the first time since the company formerly known as Eurocopter was renamed as part of a wider restructuring that has seen other parts of its EADS parent group … Continue reading

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Search-and-Rescue Drones Grounded

Gene Robinson of Wimberly, Texas, is a licensed pilot and also flies radio-controlled model airplanes—not an unusual combination. About a decade ago, he realized that a model aircraft outfitted to take aerial photos could be enormously useful in locating people … Continue reading

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Idaho man restores Corsair warplanes

JEROME, Idaho (AP) — 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 … Continue reading

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Why Are Search-and-Rescue Drones Grounded?

Gene Robinson of Wimberly, Texas, is a licensed pilot and also flies radio-controlled model airplanes—not an unusual combination. About a decade ago, he realized that a model aircraft outfitted to take aerial photos could be enormously useful in locating people … Continue reading

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NetJets to enter China market soon with charter management

The business-aviation market is poised for rapid growth in China, and Columbus-based NetJets is attempting to be part of the expansion. NetJets soon will receive certification from the Chinese government and expects to begin operations in June or July, officials … Continue reading

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