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The Day My Dad Risked His Life to Save my Model Rocket

Bill Reynolds shares a memory from his youth of when his dad reached beyond his expectations to help him. — In 1976, America was in the throes of celebrating its 200th birthday—all year long. Everyone wore red, white, and blue … Continue reading

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Music|One Man’s Mission to Keep Musicians’ Legacies Alive

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Meet Deep Thunder: IBM’s next step in the automation of forecasting

Until recently, weather forecasting was a fairly straightforward process. Scientists and meteorologists with a government agency developed computer forecast models, collected data about current weather conditions, input that data into their models, and then ran them on government hardware. A … Continue reading

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Corsair Propels Local Artists

Proclaiming that “this isn’t just another project,” Andy Montelli, Post Road Residential founder and developer of Corsair, a new luxury residential complex at 1050 State St., has not only embraced a slice of New Haven manufacturing history in the project’s … Continue reading

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Why Do We Blame Humans When Automation Fails?

Designers, engineers, regulators, and even the general public have created an inconsistent dynamic in which automation is seen as safer and superior in most instances, unless something goes wrong, at which point humans are regarded as safer and superior. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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Airbus tests structure, aerodynamics, and AI for future aircraft with 3D printed THOR plane

Jun 16, 2016 | By Tess Our readers will likely remember Airbus’ 3D printed mini plane, THOR, which drew much attention at the ILA Berlin Air Show just a couple weeks ago. The unmanned aircraft, made almost entirely from 3D … Continue reading

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Model airplanes take flight Saturday in Copan

In 1937, brothers, Walter and William Good, paved the way for remote control airplane enthusiast, like Richard Rice, Steve Johnson and the rest of the Falcons R/C Model Club of Bartlesville, when they constructed and operated the first fully functional … Continue reading

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