Monthly Archives: March 2014

A Passage from Hong Kong

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate Edward Burtynsky/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/Howard Greenberg and Bryce Wolkowitz, New York Edward Burtynsky: Container Port, Maasvlakte, … Continue reading

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Drones to deliver drugstore items in the Mission?

Follow @csaid This is not the QuiQui drone. This one carried a camera near the New York building explosion in Harlem on March 12. Reuters/Mike Segar For one brief shining moment, commercial drones are now legal in U.S. skies, thanks … Continue reading

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Trailblazing Technology: MTU Aero Engines Produces Parts by Additive …

Munich, March 13, 2014 – Additive manufacturing technology is rapidly spreading from one industry sector to the next. In the field of aero engine construction, Munich-based MTU Aero Engines has achieved a breakthrough: As one of the first companies to … Continue reading

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Giants gathering

Dozens of radio control model airplanes will take flight this weekend in northwest Cape Coral. The 20th Annual Gathering of the Giants, hosted by the Cape Coral R/Sea Hawks flying club, is set from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday … Continue reading

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Could the Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Have Been Stolen?

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How High Did China’s May 2013 Launch Go?

On May 13, 2013, China launched a rocket on a suborbital trajectory to high altitude. China announced that the launch was part of a project to study space weather and that the probe carried out an experiment at high altitude. … Continue reading

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US warnings on Boeing safety applied to missing Malaysia Airlines plane

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