Monthly Archives: February 2015

American Soldiers on ‘American Sniper’

Countrymen and countrywomen, we have got to be smarter about this whole American Sniper thing. Without question, the film has tapped into that ever-elusive cultural zeitgeist, and think pieces are hardly the only metric proving it. The film has a … Continue reading

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Photographers, Airplane Buffs Combine Their Passions

by Greg McKelvey, Special to the Roundup Three members of the Rim Country Camera Club recently visited Peterson Field near Rye to practice the art of fast motion photography. Armed with tripods with gimbal heads, long lenses and digital cameras, … Continue reading

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Aer Lingus: The glory days

#Nostalgia Kim Bielenberg Twitter Email Published 01/02/2015 | 02:30 0 Comments Share Facebook Twitter Google Email An Aer Lingus poster from the 1950s courtesy of Tony Murray, taken from Doesn’t TimeArticle source: http://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-talk/aer-lingus-the-glory-days-30948531.html

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The Fort Report

A friend of mine told me of an incident that happened while she was working outside of her home. They live in the country and the rest of the family was gone. She was tending to their garden when she … Continue reading

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Embry-Riddle Eagle Aero Sport Builds RV-12 Aircraft – Horizons Newspaper, Embry

The Eagle Aero Sport (EAS) project began as an idea that a small group of students had a few years ago. Phil Riek, Sydney Scott, and Sasha Khounani wanted to obtain a kit plane – a small plane that could … Continue reading

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Air Travel’s Next Frontier: De-Icing That Doesn’t Take Forever

Why are you still sitting on the tarmac getting de-iced, the way you were in the last storm and the one before that—the way passengers were three decades ago? It’s a given that winter weather snarls air travel, generating flight … Continue reading

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Why my next car probably won’t have CarPlay (Spoiler: Apple Watch)

My next new car probably won’t have CarPlay. I’ve reached this decision in part due to automakers’ slow crawl to put CarPlay in vehicles that you can actually buy today. While 2015 may bring the feature to more vehicles on the … Continue reading

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