Thursday, January 30, 2014
Colossal, or Not?
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According to this feature in the NY Times , a “colossal bridge” will rise over the Hudson River, replacing the Tappan Zee (illustratio...
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Tales of the Copter: Last Man on the Ocean Express
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Another story from The God Machine : Commander John M. Lewis of the U.S. Coast Guard got the distress call at 8:00 p.m. on April 15, 1976...
Monday, January 20, 2014
Hard landing, Wrong airport? Dial "AOG"
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Headlines a week ago about the Southwest B-737 that landed at the wrong airport , six miles from the intended destination of Branson Inter...
In Praise of Planes
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Fracture planes, that is. Here's a low-res, Sketchbook-edited version of a photo I took earlier this winter. I added an inset offering a...
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Tales of the Copter: Evacuation under fire
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The following is excerpted from my book, The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks, the Story of the Helicopter (Bantam Dell, 2007; s...
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Waiting for that Vortex
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I like winter - it's when I continue with backyard ice-photography, capturing images such as this ... ... but there's a limit! ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Automated in Australia: Drones and mines
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While researching my "Drones for Hire" article for Air&Space , I checked up on progress in automated mining , and Australian ...
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