Amazing 5-foot-long Boeing 777 replica is made from over 2000 hand-made …

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Writer


This incredibly intricate replica of a Boeing 777 airplane, made from over 2,000 parts, is nothing short of amazing! Every single detail was carved from manila folders and then assembled by hand. American designer and avid model maker, Luca Iaconi-Stewart, used miniature knifes, common watch-making tools, axles, clamps, tie rods, brackets and even pneumatic hoses to build his elaborate model.









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Luka found the inspiration for the project during a high school art architecture class in 2008. He acquired the schematic designs of an Air India 777-3000ER and began building the 5-foot-long 1:60 scale model. He first drew the design in Illustrator and printed it directly onto the manila folders. The mesh behind the engine was latticed manually out of hundreds of strands. Over 2,000 parts were used to build the model and the assembly process itself took 200 hours. The furniture alone took an entire summer to make (it took a day to

Article source: http://inhabitat.com/amazing-5-foot-long-boeing-777-replica-is-made-from-over-2000-hand-made-pieces-of-manila-folders/

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Photographers dispute Fairfax Co. park fees for public shoots

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Writer

WASHINGTON — A group of local photographers will air grievances to the Fairfax County Park Authority on Wednesday, claiming that the board’s costs for shooting photos in its public parks are unreasonable.

For-profit and commercial use photographers pay $100 for the first two hours, according to the Park Authority’s website.  It’s $50 for each additional hour and permits are issued by the county’s Public Information Office. Annual permits, which give photographers access to all Fairfax County parks and facilities, is $500. A permit is required for each session.

The issue, as reported by the Washington Post, is about affordability: In a recent survey, more than 55 percent of full-time photographers earn less than $30,000 per year. The fees, they told the Post, will fall on lower- to middle-income photographers who want to use the public parks as scenery.

A public hearing on the Fairfax park fees will take place 7 p.m. Wednesday in room 106 of the Herrity Building, 12055 Government Center Parkway in Fairfax.

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Article source: http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2015/01/photographers-dispute-fairfax-co-park-fees-public-shoots/

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Boeing, UW open research lab on Seattle campus

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Writer

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From a Shelby Cobra to a Fiat 500, Maurizio Casella’s Detailed 3D Printed …

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Writer

2.LOGO-Cults-HorizontalChange is apparently something that Maurizio Casella of Egypt is quite fond of. After all, he had been working doing advertising in Milan, Italy since the early 1980s, before he decided to get up and move to Egypt about 15 years ago in order to “follow his inner passion”. At the time, that passion was for the earth’s oceans and seas, and Egypt was the place he felt like settling as a diving instructor. However, Casella also always had a knack for illustrating, creating ads and brochures, and developing websites. The combination of these interests culminated in him picking up a hobby consisting of 3D modeling, which ultimately led to him buying a 3D printer in order to bring his 3D models to life.

Sure, plenty of people spend their extra time dabbling in 3D modeling software, but few actually reach a level where their models become something of exquisite beauty.

This past week, Hugo Cults, co-founder of French based 3D printing model repository, Cults3D, contacted us to bring our attention to artist Maurizio Casella’s incredible work. Unlike a lot of modelers, Casella’s work is all original, and he focuses on creating model cars and airplanes which can easily be 3D printed on standard desktop 3D printers.

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These models include his design of the scaled down Shelby Cobra, the Fiat 500, the Ferrari F430, and the

Article source: http://3dprint.com/38105/shelby-cobra-fiat-500-ferrari/

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The Veggie Burgers With Meaty Ambition

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Writer

Can you make a delicious veggie burger? A veggie burger that doesn’t feel like a bad veggie burger—chewy in the wrong way, and with none of the juicy succulence of real beef—but rather one that has the same pleasurable, chewy hit as a regular meat patty.

Impossible, the vegan burger brainchild of Stanford biochemist Patrick Brown, not only looks like the real deal, it even “bleeds” while cooking, during which process the outsides brown and the insides remain pink and flesh-like. They’ve done this with a recipe that includes a compound known as a “heme,” a protein that is found in both blood and the roots of certain plants.

“Heme is the molecule that makes meat taste like meat. It’s the reason meat tastes like nothing else. It’s the reason why red meat, which has more heme, tastes meatier to people than white meat,” Brown told the Wall Street Journal.

With millions of dollars backing him, it’s far from impossible that you’ll see a heme-burger from Brown in the near future. But before that, the Beast Burger is coming.

No, we aren’t launching our own line of signature burgers. The Beast Burger is the brainchild of food wizards and environmentally minded company Beyond Meat, who are already purveyors of a faux ground beef and a faux chicken so convincing that even meat eaters are quick to agree they “almost couldn’t tell the difference.”

Made from a concoction of pea protein and essential fatty acid oils, it boasts, as founder

Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/15/the-veggie-burgers-with-meaty-ambition.html

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Drones Flying Circles Around FAA

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Writer

Now anybody can be a pilot. That is the scary future of airspace in the United States and the Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t really know what the hell to do about it.

I’m talking about drones. Since 2008 the FAA has been attempting to come up with regulations to govern the use of drones used for commercial purposes, and for the whole of that time the technology has been outpacing their deliberations. When they began the work, smartphones were only just catching on and drones were relatively expensive and clunky. Now they are marvels of the kind of technological miniaturization that has been shrinking everything.

And it’s the advancement of cameras that is driving the appeal of drones. The video on the latest smartphone is far better than on a three-year-old video camera and a fraction of the size. Imagine what that technology now delivers in the camera on a drone.

Drones bring eyes to a new place: the near sky.  They deliver a bird’s-eye view that is of enormous value to professions as varied as agriculture, archaeology, moviemaking, policing, oil exploration and real estate development. In some hands they could also serve as the most invasive Peeping Toms ever seen, popping up outside the windows of high-rise apartment buildings or snooping on nudist beaches.

The FAA was not designed to deal with a challenge of this order. It has a very serious day job overseeing the safety of 68,000 domestic commercial flights a day, the design of every part of the

Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/18/drones-flying-circles-around-the-faa.html

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Parts of mystery plane found in ’77 go on display at Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps …

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Writer

HONOLULU — Hawaii’s military history pops up in unexpected places.

Sometimes it’s right underfoot. Or under dive fin.

The latter was the case in 1977, when three friends who were spearfishing in Kailua Bay found the wreck of a World War II-era P-40 Warhawk fighter in relatively shallow water.

A .50-caliber machine gun, two .30-caliber machine guns, a clock, gauge, ammunition and other items went home with the trio.

It took 37 years for the fighter — or what’s left of it — to get some attention again.

According to aviation historian Dave Trojan, the Allison V-12 engine still sits upright in 10 to 12 feet of water.

Landing gear and corroded structural ribbing are also there.

But therein lies another mystery: Whose plane was it?

The question may not be answered soon. But the good news is that parts of the plane will be going on display.

Mike Holton, one of the three Kainalu Park friends to retrieve the plane parts in 1977, is providing some of the artifacts for a new air terminal display at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps base, Trojan said.Trojan, who lives in California, said he spent months searching records to try to identify the plane.

“And I was not able to do that, so it’s still kind of a mystery plane,” he said. “All I know is it’s definitely an early model P-40 B or C. It could have been an accident, or it could have been shot down. It’s definitely an early war wreck that nobody really knew about.”

The engine serial number didn’t

Article source: http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/27c6836344924504a740d6a195ed1498/HI--Mystery-Plane

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