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1903 William Edward Boeing, born in Detroit to a German immigrant named Wilhelm Böing, heads West after his Yale education to make a fortune in the timber industry in Southwest Washington’s Grays Harbor. It’s the year of the Wright brothers’ … Continue reading →

One of the ICARUS time projection chambers being refurbished at CERN in a clean room. Credit: Max Brice/CERN It’s a big shining box, 4 metres high, 20 metres long: this magnificent detector arrived at CERN 16 months ago and since … Continue reading →

Microsemi SoC is well known for its wide range of radiation-tolerant FPGA offerings, which include the following: RTSX-SU: High-reliability, rad-tolerant, antifuse-based FPGAs.   RTAX-S: High-performance, high-density, low-power consumption FPGAs that are specifically designed for space applications.   RTAX-DSP: Space-flight FPGAs based on … Continue reading →

Warbirds! It’s time to take flight once again. And for many model plane enthusiasts, getting ready to do this may be just a little different these days. As with so many processes, 3D printing has had a hand here too, … Continue reading →

David Chvatal BondNotre Dame High School Class of 1956 Back in the forties, our family, the Chvatal’s, lived at 112 West 3rd St. in Cresco, next to the Lutheran Church. Just south was the poultry house (I don’t recall its … Continue reading →

Marlborough man builds ‘100-year-old brand new’ WWI airplane engines to order Tony Wytenburg fires up the replica 1915 Gnome rotary aircraft engine he built at his engineering workshop in Blenheim. Tony Wytenburg was always the kid who pulled things apart growing … Continue reading →

So what is it about 2016 that’s spelled a death knell for so many stars? It seems there’s never been a year where so many icons have died in such record numbers, and in such rapid succession. What’s sadder still, … Continue reading →