Watching this week's fighting across the Line of Control that separates the forces of Pakistan and India in Kashmir reminded me to post...

Occasionally trends in movie-making catch my interest. Not many studios make Western movies now, but two are in the theaters, a remake of T...

Last week I saw a set of land-clearing machines munch their way across a triangular vacant lot in less than a day. I'd heard about such ...

Operating a tracked skid-steer machine recently, gathering trees into piles, reminded me of a subject that gets too little attention: the ex...

If you've earned any kind of pilot's license, even the simplest single-engine-land license like me, you've probably thought abou...

Updating my post on the fatal crane mishap in Lower Manhattan last week ...  The city has confirmed that the model was a Liebherr LR1300....

About the fatal crane accident in lower Manhattan yesterday, which happened while the operator was lowering the crane boom and jib to reduc...