Monthly Archives: April 2014

It was 2012, and physicists had just announced the big news: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider had delivered what looked like (and was later confirmed to be) a Higgs particle, the capstone of a decades-long search to complete the so-called Standard … Continue reading →

There’s been a flurry of news recently about 3D printing carbon composites, both inside and outside the rarefied atmosphere of aerospace. We told you about the MarkOne, the first commercial carbon fiber 3D printer using continuous fiber. Then we reported … Continue reading →

Great rewards Our polished example flew as a tailwheel airplane for its first three decades before an owner in 1974 beefed up the fuselage and installed a set of Edo 56-7850A straight floats. Nearly 25 years later, another owner added … Continue reading →

The Noise Report SI.com examines some of the more notable sports media stories of the past week: 1. Universal Sports has aired the Boston Marathon since 2011 but the network will undoubtedly get its biggest viewership ever for this year’s … Continue reading →

JEROME – Fewer than 40 of the 12,571 Corsair warplanes churned out in the U.S. during World War II and the Korean War are airworthy today. One sits in a hangar at Jerome County Airport, its nose up against a … Continue reading →

LUTZ — Their customers run the gamut from artists to surgeons to aeronautical engineers. At the Object Shop, Pasco’s first 3-D printing company, if you can design it, they can model it. Brian Zuckerman and Grant Posner opened the store … Continue reading →

FAIRBANKS — Eyal Saiet’s job is looking for the sweet spot — that connection between machine and science that makes sense. For instance, Saiet is thinking of flying an unmanned aircraft through the blow of a surfacing bowhead whale to … Continue reading →