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Airbus on Wednesday became the first airplane manufacturer to get U.S. government permission to sell aircraft to Iran following last year’s nuclear accord, getting final approval for a 17-plane sale that’s part of a larger $25 billion deal.

The European aviation company’s announcement, coming as Iranian and U.S. leaders are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, showed that the outgoing administration of President Barack Obama is honoring the economic terms of the pact.

The next administration, however, may change that equation for Airbus and Chicago-based Boeing Co., which has its own $25 billion deal on the line with Iran that would be the biggest for an American company since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and U.S. Embassy takeover.

Though based abroad, Airbus needed the approval of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for the deal as at least 10 percent of Airbus components are of American origin.

Airbus applied for two licenses to cover its deal with Iran to ensure the fast delivery of some of the aircraft, Airbus spokesman Justin Dubon told The Associated Press. The license announced Wednesday covers the first 17 planes involved in the deal, which will be will be A320s and A330s, he said.

Dubon declined to offer a breakdown of how many of each model are involved

Article source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/21/us-grants-airbus-first-chance-to-sell-airplanes-to-iran.html

Turning on Airplane Mode might mean never getting it back on again, according to people suffering from a new bug.

People switching on the mode – meant as a temporary way – appear to be finding that it stops them getting signal back. Some report that the problem is fixed by restarting their phone, but others are finding that they have to swap their phone for a new one at the Apple Store.

The exact cause of the issue isn’t clear, and so it isn’t possible to say how many people may suffer from it – though it seems to be very few – or whether it’s possible to stop it from happening. It also isn’t clear whether it is an issue with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus specifically, or if the problem is iOS 10.

Apple has told authorised repair businesses that they should tell customers to restart the affected phone, according to documents seen by MacRumors. And if that doesn’t work, people are advised to remove and then re-insert the phone’s SIM card.

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  Article source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ios-10-airplane-mode-iphone-7-apple-bug-issue-problem-genius-bar-replacement-a7318441.html

This story is about the parents of Lynne Border and Becca Austin. Lynne, a member of the Village WFCR committee, lived with her parents toward the end of their lives and wanted to honor them by sharing their story, along with her sister, Becca Austin.  
Gene was known to family and friends as a “doer.”  Gene met his wife, Mary Bly, in Phoenix, Ariz., and together they raised four girls: Lynne, Pam, Ruth and Becca.  
They lived in a house that had only one bathroom and the girls remember how happy their father was when he finally added “daddy’s reading room.”
Gene was a woodworker and loved building things. He rebuilt a Model A Ford when he wasn’t working as an expedited scheduler for an airplane parts company.
At age 55, he retired so that he could build his dream home in Pine Top, Ariz. Their retirement home was a modified A-frame that had everything his wife wanted.  That is, until Gene and Bly visited their daughter, Becca, in the Village in 1989.
Bly and Gene went for a walk one day, found a house, bought it and then told Becca they would be moving again. They drove back to Arizona to prepare for the move to the Village.  
In 1992, Gene and Bly, along with their daughters, loaded up a truck with their belongings and drove to Hot Springs Village. They enjoyed all the Village’s amenities.
Gene and Bly were vibrant

Article source: http://www.hsvvoice.com/news/20160920/cancer-claimed-lives-of-vibrant-villagers

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On the frigid morning of Jan. 8, 2014, an MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter, call sign Vulcan 543, rose from the tarmac at Naval Station Norfolk, its two massive rotors biting the cold air as it left on a training mission over the slate-gray Atlantic. The largest, most powerful chopper in the Pentagon’s fleet, the Sea Dragon transports personnel and supplies and performs minesweeping operations. Its three turbo-shaft engines allow it to drag mine-detection gear the size of a Humvee through ocean waves.

Lieutenant J Wesley Van Dorn piloted Vulcan 543. He and his co-pilot, Lieutenant Sean Snyder, were joined in Virginia that morning by a crew of three, including Petty Officer Second Class Dylan Boone. A day earlier, the aircraft hadn’t been cleared to fly, because its instruments had frozen solid after it was left outdoors. Vulcan 543 had spent the night defrosting in a hangar. The air was still frigid when the men climbed aboard, with wind chill pushing temperatures down into the single digits, and their breath steaming inside the cockpit. When the crew turned on the cabin heater, Boone recalls, it began “spitting out small fireballs.” Unfazed, they fiddled with the device and got it cranking. Crew members tended to have a fatalistic view of

Article source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-military-helicopters/

The next drone revolution is happening underwater. Just as flying drones have changed from expensive specialist tools to mass-market million-sellers in a few short years, their aquatic counterparts are opening up the seas.

Unmanned submarines, known as Remotely Operated Vehicles, can regularly be seen on television exploring sunken cities or looking for crashed aircraft. They are connected to a mothership via a tether and can dive deeper and longer than a SCUBA diver. The advantages are obvious: For humans, anything below a hundred feet is a “deep dive” that can require hours of decompression. Not so for bots, which can swim deeper and faster.

ROVs can handle conditions that are unsafe for human divers, like swimming in oil, sewage, and extreme cold. They do not get hungry or tired, and a serious accident is an irritation rather than a disaster. Some modern ROVs are small enough to carry around easily and transport by air, unlike diving equipment. The equipment for a technical diver – one who dives below a hundred feet — weighs at least two hundred pounds.

The problem is that ROVs are expensive because they are built from custom electronics. The 20-lb. GNOM Standard-01 ROV used in industry will run you about 10 grand, and that is the budget end of the market. The revolution is coming from enthusiasts taking an open-source approach, using off-the-shelf hardware and a little innovation to

Article source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/news/a22903/rov-sea-drones/