Monthly Archives: December 2014

Amazon threatens to take more drone research offshore

This undated image shows an Amazon Prime Air drone carrying a package as part of the company’s efforts to create a drone-delivery service(Photo: Photo courtesy/AMAZON.COM Inc.) Amazon says its plans to develop a fleet of small drones to deliver packages … Continue reading

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Schumer calling for more drone regulations after incidents near airports

Updated: 12/08/2014 11:19 PM Created: 12/08/2014 10:26 PM WHEC.com By: Jennifer Mobilia – @whec_jmobilia Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the FAA to implement new rules and regulations regarding drones after several of the unmanned aircrafts were spotted hovering at … Continue reading

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The Best of Airways: Ozark – The Go-Getter Airline

 By David H. Stringer / Originally Published in Airways, July 2012 Joseph H. FitzGerald resigned as Ozark Air Lines’s president at the end of July 1963 and was replaced early the following year by Thomas L. Grace, who was recruited from … Continue reading

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Pilot who killed a family said to have crashed at same airport in 2010

The pilot of a small plane that crashed into a DC-area home on its way to Montgomery County Airpark, killing a mother and her two children, may have crashed a plane while attempting to land at the same airport in … Continue reading

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Technique offers spray-on solar power

Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That’s Illan Kramer’s (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known … Continue reading

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Question use of lethal drones

By Sandra Strauss As a child in the 1960s, I was fascinated by remote-control model airplanes being launched from the grounds of a local elementary school near my home. I would watch as the pilots, from the ground, guided the … Continue reading

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Obiter changes business model to adapt – Champaign/Urbana News

William Boulanger, left, executive chemist and chairman of Obiter Research, stands next to a giant centrifuge as chemists Lauri Schultz, background left, and Sergey Dzekhtser, stand next to a reactor, which holds 200 liters of material and serves as the … Continue reading

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