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About 2,600 of Georgia’s brightest kids are swarming though Athens’ Classic Center this week, along with their intelligent robots, miniature solar-powered cars, model planes powered with rubber bands, videos, computer programs and just about anything else an engineering-minded youngster might … Continue reading →

The exercise had come down to the last team, and the last throw. It would be up to Aiken Middle School student Toriec Smith to send his team to victory or defeat. He held the carefully crafted paper airplane above … Continue reading →

Cora Jewell, 91, of Ohio, recently wrote a biography of her father, Larry Jewell, who was a Greene County Methodist pastor. She will be signing copies of her book Monday at Eva K. Bowlby Library. Jane Ross, 90, of Jefferson … Continue reading →

Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, March 8 — The Federal Aviation Administration published the following rule in the Federal Register for a new Airworthiness Directives for certain Learjet Inc. Model 36A aircrafts (Documen . . . Targeted News Service Document Request … Continue reading →

Boeing said Monday it expects to launch a new larger variant of the 737 MAX family, the MAX 10, by year-end. This latest chess move between Boeing and its great rival Airbus, which had been telegraphed for some time, aims … Continue reading →

By Jon Ostrower SAN DIEGO (CNNMoney) — As the old saying goes, you wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once. In this case, it’s two passenger airplanes. One in Brazil and one in the U.S. … Continue reading →

Engineers at the academy have designed a model capable of sending a payload of about 100 kilograms into low Earth orbit. (Representational image) China will develop a new generation of rockets that can be launched into space from an aircraft, … Continue reading →