Model Airplanes

American Airlines employees Steve Kmetz, from left, Frank Hettlinger and Norm Rainwater look at in-flight entertainment in the business class section during a media tour of a Boeing 787.

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American Airlines employees Steve Kmetz, from left, Frank Hettlinger and Norm Rainwater look at in-flight entertainment in the business class section during a media tour of a Boeing 787.

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Captain Fergie Ferguson has his photo take in front of an engine of a new American Airlines Boeing 787 at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Dallas.

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Captain Fergie Ferguson has his photo take in front of an engine of a new American Airlines Boeing 787 at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Dallas.

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DALLAS — The newest airplane in the American Airlines fleet may be a pleasure to the eyes of passengers, but even more, it should be a treat for the carrier’s wallet.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which begins commercial service for the Fort Worth-based carrier this week, comes with a reputation for saving airlines money.

The 226-seat airplane offers significant fuel savings over the less efficient airplanes it replaces. And with carbon-fiber composite used for the plane’s fuselage and other parts, American expects to also save on maintenance.

“For the airlines, it’s about the fuel efficiency,” Randy Tinseth, Boeing vice president of marketing, said last week during an event introducing

Article source: http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/may/07/american-seeks-savings-from-dreamliner/

What do you call fast food when it’s still fast and it’s still food, but when it does away with all the bad associations — nutritional, corporate, aesthetic — that have plagued it for decades? You call it Loco’l. Born out of a partnership between San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson and L.A. chef Roy Choi (with help from a couple of legendary chef friends), Loco’l is designed to offer a new kind of fast food that depends on fresh ingredients and the culinary skills of real chefs but retains the ideas of quickness, convenience and, most important, low price. Following one of the most successful crowdfunded food campaigns ever, the first restaurant is opening in the Watts neighborhood of L.A. late this summer, with a location in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district following in the fall. I have run into both Daniel and Roy in various culinary circles — I host food salons, and I’m beginning work on a book about innovation and creativity in the food world. For this story, we discussed their philosophies, community outreach, price point and what their version of the 99-cent burger will be. They even shared an exclusive with me (shhh… they haven’t told anyone yet). 

Questlove: What’s your concept for Loco’l?

Daniel Patterson: I have a charity foundation in San Francisco that teaches kids how to cook. We work with schools, but also with an organization that takes kids off of the street and gives them job training, counseling and support, but

Article source: http://www.papermag.com/2015/05/locol_roy_choi_daniel_patterson_questlove.php

After a half-year on the market, the Nexus 9 remains one of the finest tablets available from any manufacturer. Like every Nexus device Google has ever offered, the HTC-made Nexus 9 was meant to be a blueprint – a benchmark for all other tablets. What we’ve done here is to take the Nexus 9 through the paces over a period of several months to give you an idea of what it’s like to own this device for a real-life period of time, wear and tear included. Here we decide whether or not the Nexus 9 really should be considered the tablet you compare all other tablets to here and through the future.

The Nexus 9 is a blueprint. I began to think of the whole Nexus line in this way several years ago, as Google continued to reveal devices that weren’t necessarily the best of the best, but a solid

Article source: http://www.slashgear.com/nexus-9-review-the-ipad-killer-blueprint-05367832/

Article source: http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/05/06/living-heart-project-brings-a-beat-to-3-d/