Peter Sander championed 3D printing at Airbus in Hamburg, Germany. The water lily spoiler is just one of many projects he’s done with “Laser Zentrum Nord,” a production company tied to a university. Starting in 2016, Airbus will begin mass production with its own 3D printers.
Article source: http://www.dw.com/en/inspiring-engineers-natures-small-miracles/g-18888758
N863GA, a 26-year young MD-83
Earlier this year, I was excited to learn Allegiant would be the newest airline to bring service to my home market here in Kansas City, MO. Allegiant was the last piece of the puzzle to complete the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) trifecta. So, naturally I had to be on their very first flight out.
Just last year Spirit inaugurated services at Kansas City International and in the following months brought with them unprecedented fare disruption across multiple markets. The effects were unlike any I have witnessed in a decade of paying close attention to fare trends in KC. And herein lies the secret with ULCCs; even if passengers never intend to fly with them, they bring normalcy to entire markets with LCCs and even legacies adjusting their own fare structures to keep from losing too much market share.
Inaugural Cake! An A319?
New airline aside, I’m a bit of an inaugural hound. When the day came, I elected to skip the press conference and focus on becoming the first confirmed booking, which I’m proud to announce I accomplished, while the press conference was still going, in fact.
As I tend to do, I booked the outbound leg, making a mental note to fill in the
Article source: http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/11/flying-allegiant-md-83/
SEATTLE — Some of the best science here gets done in the coffee line.
You can insert your Starbucks jokes here. But when the Allen Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to neuroscience and cell biology, set about designing a new, $200 million building, CEO Allan Jones deliberately chose to consolidate the coffee area in one spot. And to put in just four coffee machines for 300 employees.
That way, everyone has to get out of their cubicle and mix.
That’s just one of the quirky design features in the new headquarters, which is hosting a science showcase this week as an informal grand opening.
To further push scientists out of their silos — and encourage a lively exchange of ideas — the Institute has scrambled its seating plan.
“Your cubicle, if you are a software developer, might be next to an electrophysiologist, who might be next to a gene jock, who might be next to a neuroanatomist,” Jones said. “The design of this building was meant to carry that mixing through in very interesting ways.”
The Allen Institute needs to have all hands on deck to reach its ambitious goals. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen started the brain science wing of the institute in 2003, and has committed more than $500 million of his fortune to creating open-source tools to advance neuroscience.
Late last year, Allen also launched the cell science division, with another $100 million commitment, as a place to probe the fundamental units of life. The goal is to produce a 3-D model of the
Article source: http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/01/brain-research-allen-institute/
Nearly a decade after first proposing a major addition to Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport, Windsor developer Martin Lind is back with new plans for the airport.
Lind presented preliminary plans to the new Northern Colorado Regional Airport Commission last week that propose building about 30 hangars and two large commercial buildings on roughly 50 acres.
If approved by the commission, which now oversees the municipally owned airport, the airport would lease land to Lind and his company, Water Valley.
Whether the project moves forward rests on the ability to negotiate favorable lease terms — a minimum of 50 years — with the commission, Lind said.
“The critical question is can we get a lease that entices private development on public land,” he said. As airport governance changed from Fort Collins and Loveland city councils to a regional airport commission, Lind said the business model sought to entice private equity.
“We’re honoring that business plan with this proposal,” he said. “We’re hoping we can get a recommendation from (airport) staff in the near future that is positive.”
If that happens, Water Valley would serve as the master developer, lease the land from the airport and then go into the market to find aviation-related parties to build or lease existing space.
The airport has seen significant growth in its amount of corporate and business users within the last three years, necessitating more hangars,
Article source: http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2015/12/01/30-new-hangars-planned-fort-collins-loveland-airport/76611486/
As per schedule, US aviation regulators are expected to propose inspections of Boeing Co’s (NYSE:BA) 737 and Embraer 170 and 190 jets today. After the inspection, the authority might have the aircraft manufacturer replace some parts on around 1,600 jets. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) believes that the parts replacement would prevent potential aircraft accidents in future.
The US aviation regulators are scheduled to submit an official report today; in it, the authority is expected to disclose that it is set to check possible corrosion of Boeing 737’s horizontal stabilizer located at the tail section of the aircraft. As an aircraft’s essential systems have secondary backups, a single point failure is not likely to result in a plane crash; however, the FAA does not share this belief.
According to the FAA, corrosion at the horizontal stabilizers can result in “departure of the horizontal stabilizers from the airplane” that “can lead to loss of continued safe flight.” The inspections would include approximately 1,400 Boeing 737s starting from the initial 737-600 model. Furthermore, a separate inspection would also cover 197 Embraer 170 and 190 regional jets.
The FAA will decide whether to mandate the proposed safety fixes on US operators or not; however, if it does, US carriers will have to abide by the safety procedures. As a result, if an issue in horizontal stabilizer of any aircraft is highlighted, the carrier that owns the aircraft would have to bear the expenses to undergo any required repairs. Authorities and airlines outside the US
Article source: http://www.bidnessetc.com/58342-the-impact-of-faas-proposed-safety-fixes-for-boeing-co-embraer-jets/
Telegram messengers were not a welcome sight during World War II. At a time when a telegram was the fastest and most reliable way to get a message to someone, the Western Union delivery man was the last person anyone wanted to see in 1942, especially families with loved ones in harm’s way.
At 3:50 p.m. on Dec. 14, 1942, Clara Zeidler answered the doorbell at her home on N. 33rd St., ripped open the envelope handed to her by the messenger and read, “The navy department deeply regrets…”
A neighbor called Mike Zeidler at his barbershop on N. 16th St., where a service flag with three stars — for his son Carl and for the sons of his two barbers — hung on a mirror. He rushed home to comfort his wife and read the telegram, which offered few details.
They were told only that he was missing. They later learned that by the time the messenger knocked on their door, their son’s ship had been overdue for six weeks.
Carl Zeidler’s parents would die without knowing exactly what happened to their son and without the chance to bury him. Carl’s brother Frank later served as Milwaukee’s mayor and for decades pressed the Pentagon to release information on his brother’s death. Finally, in 1975, he learned his brother’s fate.
Carl Zeidler was among thousands of Milwaukeeans to join the military in the weeks and months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He didn’t have to. He was the mayor of the 12th largest city
Article source: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/death-at-war-cut-short-milwaukee-mayor-carl-zeidlers-political-career-b99623568z1-358497271.html
Back in the days when these things were allowed, aviation pioneer Harry Atwood landed his plane on the White House lawn, the finale of the first flight from Boston to Washington, D.C.
Atwood would go on to other great feats, but the plane, a Burgess-Wright Model F, which he landed on the South Lawn that July day in 1911, would not fare so well. Four years later, another pilot would crash it into a Massachusetts swamp, and parts of it would be sold for scrap.
Now, more than a century later, a group of aviation buffs have launched a campaign to restore the plane, which they say is the last remaining authentic Wright Brothers aircraft. Their goal is to raise $4 million to rebuild the plane, which would then be displayed in Terminal A at Reagan National Airport.
“It’s just a fascinating project,” said Keith Meurlin, president of the Washington Airports Task Force, which helped launch the campaign. “The fact that it’s still around, that we have the ability to preserve and display it, is a great opportunity.”
The restoration would be done by Ken W. Hyde, who heads the Wright Experience, a Warrenton, Va.-based nonprofit dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Wright Brothers. Part of Hyde’s work focuses on restoring and rebuilding Wright Brothers aircraft.
Twenty years ago, Hyde found and purchased some original parts of the Burgess-Wright aircraft that Atwood flew, including the engine, transmission and some of the controls. According to Hyde, Burgess started as a shipbuilding company
