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Boeing’s first North Charleston-built 787 ‘Dash-9’ Dreamliner rolls off …

The first Dash-9 Dreamliner to be built at Boeing Co.’s North Charleston campus rolled off the production line Monday and is slated for delivery to United Airlines in early March, Boeing officials said Tuesday. “What this final assembly team has … Continue reading

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The Drone Defender

Twenty-nine floors up, inside a conference room of the New York law office of Kramer Levin Naftalis Frankel, Brendan Schulman is hovering a drone in front of my face. It’s a Blade Nano QX—barely 2 inches tall—a four-rotor, radio-controlled copter … Continue reading

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Young Investigator Profile: John Chodera

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Is America Ready For Drones? I’m Not!

My cousin got a drone for Christmas. He’s a gadget geek, and drones are all the rage especially for early adapters of cutting edge technology. It seems to me the popularity of drones has shot through the roof in less … Continue reading

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SkyMall, killed by the smartphone

Yesterday came news that SkyMall, the in-flight catalogue of tchotchkes, is filing for bankruptcy. The cause? According to SkyMall, blame the FAA’s relaxation of its ban on the use of personal electronic devices by airline passengers. Could it ever have … Continue reading

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John Palladino, Pioneer Recording Engineer-Producer, Dies at 94

Palladino worked on more than a dozen of Frank Sinatra’s Capitol albums from 1953-1962. Photo: Stephen K. Peeples/stephenkpeeples.com Longtime Friendly Valley resident John Palladino, a pioneering Hollywood sound engineer turned Capitol Records producer/artists repertoire exec whose sonic fingerprints are on … Continue reading

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The club for graying daredevils

In 1986, Dick Rutan flew with a co-pilot in a Rutan Model 76 Voyager, a custom-designed and -built aircraft, covering 26,000 air miles and taking nine days to circumnavigate the globe — unrefueled, nonstop. After taking off from Edwards Air … Continue reading

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