About a year ago, a Boeing 747 operated by Delta Air Lines took off from Atlanta for a three-hour flight to Pinal Airpark, a boneyard for unwanted aircraft in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert.
The once celebrated giant of the sky, which had transformed international travel with its size and range, had flown its last flight for a U.S. airline.
Delta…
Article source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-747-airlines-dump-the-jumbo-jet-transforming-international-travel-11546059601
Ali Goldwater remembers flying in a plane over the Grand Canyon with William F. Buckley, Jr. and her grandfather, Barry Goldwater, when she was about five years old.
“We flew up there, and he would always have a camera,” she recalls. “He usually had a couple cameras with him, because he’d be shooting black and white and color. So at an early age, I remember just traveling around the state with him, and we usually flew in an airplane or a helicopter. I couldn’t vote, but I worked for him. I got to travel with him around the state when he gave speeches and whatnot.”
Though he’s known internationally as the late five-term U.S. Senator from Arizona and Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election, Barry Goldwater was also an archivist of Arizona history. To a large extent, he is Arizona history. Little Barry Goldwater was the ring-bearer at the first wedding held after Arizona’s statehood in 1912 – an event he recounted in 1978 for the Arizona History Project: “I remember I was only about four years old, standing outside waiting for the telegraph boy to bring a message saying that President Taft had signed us into statehood. It was Joe Meltzer’s determination to be the first man married in the State of Arizona. Sure enough, I can still see that dust coming up old unpaved First Avenue with the messenger with the telegram.”
In adulthood, Goldwater would have captured that dust being
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Israeli attack helicopters have struck two posts belonging to the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, in southern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip, the regime’s military says.
“Earlier today, an explosive device attached to a large cluster of balloons was launched on a model airplane from the Gaza Strip into” the Israeli-held Palestinian territories, the military said in a statement on Sunday.
No damage was inflicted by the cross-border “attack” purportedly from the Gaza Strip. The drone-shaped device landed unexploded in a carrot field.
It added that in response to the “balloon-borne explosive device,” the military dispatched its “attack helicopters,” striking “two observation posts” run by Hamas, on Sunday evening.
According to a Hamas security source, one strike occurred east of Khan Younis and the other was carried out east of Gaza City. The source added that no injuries had been reported following the airstrikes.
Meanwhile, Palestinian media reported that in addition to the Hamas posts, the Israeli military attacked “targets” in the vicinity of Jabalia, in northern Gaza, and in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City. The Israeli military, however, refused to comment on those reports.
Tel Aviv bombards Gaza from time to time, claiming the assaults are in response to rocket attacks by resistance groups.
An Israeli combat helicopter has launched an airstrike in the southern Article source: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/06/585070/Israel-Gaza-Hamas-helicopters-drone
The latest airline venture from JetBlue founder David Neeleman, provisionally named Moxy, has signed a fixed order for 60 A220-300 aircraft, Airbus has announced. At the same time, JetBlue has placed firm orders for 60 A220-300 aircraft.
Airbus A220-300 aircraft in flight.Airbus, photo by F. Lancelot, master films.
This choice of aircraft will give the airlines flexibility to cover under-served regional markets and launch new low-cost short-haul shuttle services. Both orders were completed at the end of December, according to the aircraft manufacturer.
Airbus will produce these 120 A220-300 planes at a new U.S. assembly facility in Mobile, Alabama. That new construction, which will break ground later this month, is adjacent to the existing Airbus A320 assembly facility.
The plans for Moxy were revealed at the Farnborough Air Show last July. Neelam has defined the brand’s positioning as high tech and the A220, as a high-tech aircraft, fits the bill.
With this aircraft, Moxy could introduce profitable city pairs in underserved regional and short to mid-haul markets, in the U.S. and beyond. The A220-300 would also be suitable to introduce new frequent shuttle services between cities with high business passenger demand, where schedule flexibility might be attractive to passengers.
The airline selected the Airbus A220-300 model (formerly the Bombardier C-Series 300) because of its operational efficiencies and overall passenger comfort. This aircraft offers passengers a flying experience similar to flying on an A350XWB or a Boeing Dreamliner while traveling on a small plane for shorter distances.
The A220 is designed expressly
Article source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2019/01/03/moxy-and-jetblue-place-firm-orders-for-120-airbus-a220-aircraft/
Walking through a pine forest in Mexico’s Sierra Norte mountains, I see peaks through a blanket of clouds. It’s breathtaking. At the top of the mountain, about 60 people dip freshly handmade tortillas into a rich, spicy pork soup as we watch paper hot air-balloons lofted into the sky, a physical manifestation of our hopes — deseos — for the future.
I’m representing Duke University at this annual ceremony for the carbon offset credits generated by the forest management practices of 12 indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. The ceremony is in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec (‘Tlahui’ for short), where a decision to plant pine saplings on the mountainside 18 years ago yielded results for the world to model as we work to combat climate change.
In December, a few weeks after I returned from Oaxaca, world leaders met in Poland for the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) to discuss a global strategy to address climate change. Unlike past COPs, this conference explored the role of Carbon Dioxide Removal technologies (CDRs). CDR includes both biological efforts to store carbon through trees, wetlands and agriculture as well as technological solutions like direct-air carbon capture. Carbon offsets, a market tool that will incentivize CDRs, are critical, but few people know what carbon offsets are or how they function.
I’ve spent the last 10 years working exclusively in carbon offsets, first as the lead for the Tomorrow’s
Article source: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0104-carbon-offsets-20190103-story.html
George L. Fell, III
June 26, 1947-Dec. 31, 2018
Age: 71
Residence: Eaton
George L. Fell, III, 71 of Eaton, passed away at his home Dec. 31, 2018. George was born June 26, 1947, in Colorado Springs, to George Louis Fell, II and Naomi M. (Neelly) Fell. He married Marcia L. Akers on Jan. 2, 1970, in Greeley. Marcia passed away in September 2014.
George lived in the Greeley and Eaton areas nearly his entire life, graduating from Greeley Central in 1966. He entered the Army in 1967, serving in Vietnam, and was awarded the Purple Heart for his service
Upon returning to Colorado, George attended the University of Northern Colorado where he graduated with his bachelor of arts. Once he graduated, he began a career with Wood Brother’s Homes in Greeley before starting his own construction company. In 1984, George and his family moved to Monument where he was an insurance adjustor for State Farm.
In 1993, George and his family returned to the Greeley area and formed George Fell and Son Construction with his son CJ. Many high quality homes were built by George all over Northern Colorado with a reputation for quality workmanship and honesty.
George made the decision to step back from construction in 2012 to care of his ailing spouse, Marcia, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. After her death, he continued to do smaller construction related jobs for friends and associates while also spending time with his children and grandchildren until the time of his passing.
George also enjoyed building and flying model airplanes,
Article source: https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/obituary-for-george-l-fell-iii/
OSNews featured two reviews of the new 12″ Powerbook from Apple last month. Using a machine and more fairly evaluating it, is a continuous process, so when new facts emerge, we should be reporting them back. So, what I discovered this weekend is that my 12″ Powerbook doesn’t like… the mountains. Read on, it is an interesting issue. Update: The issue is now logged at Apple’s tech support db.So, we spent this weekend at the mountains, in the Tahoe City (in the borders of California and Nevada). The city is at 1900 meters high from the sea level. In the two days we spent there, my Powerbook would work fine for the first 15 minutes and after the hard drive would start becoming warm (not even hot just yet), a very abrupt and clear sound would come out of it: “clong, clong”. Needless to say that I panicked and got pretty angry, thinking that my drive is near a death toll, after only a few weeks of owning this laptop (a value of about 2000 USD).
I restarted the machine several times “just in case” of bad hdd initialization, I used the disk utility to fix any problems that might have happened, but to not avail. The drive would do that “clong, clong” all the time (followed by restarting of the hdd fan, everytime!!), and the funny part is that as much hotter the drive would become, the more frequent the head of the disk
Article source: https://www.osnews.com/story/2954/update-on-the-12-powerbook-review-altitude-problems/
