Author Archives: Writer

Airlines are constantly reinventing themselves, but new paint jobs, logos, and ever-more perks for the 1-percent up front don’t address the headaches of air travel. What if there was a startup airline, modeled after the likes of Uber and Airbnb, … Continue reading →

Last SlideNext Slide Driving an Airstream can be daunting initially, simply because you get the feeling mdash; from all the waves and thumbs-up mdash; that everyonersquo;s watching.(Photo: Melanie D.G. Kaplan for USA TODAY) When I first told friends this summer … Continue reading →

Alt Alert is a compact altitude pressurization monitoring system.(Photo: NASA) Throughout NASA’s long and industrious history, the space agency’s cutting-edge technologies have been adopted or adapted to suit various needs on Earth. For instance, the ear thermometer sitting in your … Continue reading →

Buy Photo Rep. John Carney, D-Del., talks with Col. Rob Culcasi of the 166th Airlift Wing during a 2014 visit to the New Castle Air National Guard Base to discuss his legislation to modernize the Air Guard’s fleet of C-130H2 … Continue reading →

As any good steampunk will tell you, about a century ago airplanes and airships (blimps, dirigibles, zeppelins) shared the skies, vying almost neck-and-neck for dominance. From the turn of the 20th century through the 1930s, spacious lighter-than-air craft—usually rigid-framed ships … Continue reading →

The drug-addict mother, the fictional son, the defective airplane parts: Secrets are at the core of many great American plays. Sometimes they are secrets kept by one character from the others, or from the outer world; the drama is in … Continue reading →

Since we first learned that the A9 SoC in Apple’s iPhone 6s lineup is dual sourced – that is that it’s being made by two different vendors with two distinct manufacturing processes – one major question has remained in the … Continue reading →