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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Bow To Your Billionaire Drone Overlord: Frank Wang’s Quest To Put DJI Robots …
Frank Wang Tao leads the world’s largest consumer drone company in DJI, which is currently raising money at a $10 billion valuation. (Photo: David Hartung For Forbes) By Ryan Mac, Heng Shao and Frank Bi Frank Wang Tao has never … Continue reading
Popular historian David McCullough can’t quite find the real men behind the …
Simon Schuster The Wright Brothers By David McCullough Simon Schuster, 336 pp., $30 David McCullough’s popular biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Adams succeeded with readers because they weren’t about politics or history from a particular point of … Continue reading
EXCHANGE: Prairie Aviation Museum gets makeover – Belleville News
The Prairie Aviation Museum embraces all forms of aviation — from military to outer space and everything in between — in its recently refurbished space on Illinois 9 near the old airport. “We didn’t want to be all military,” said … Continue reading
World War II-Era Planes Perform Historic Flyover of National Mall
World War II-era planes will perform a flyover of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the allied victory in Europe, or V-E Day. The event, dubbed the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover, will … Continue reading
New Analysis Can Drastically Reduce an Airplane’s Tarmac Time
Airplanes spend an awful lot of time waiting on tarmacs. In some cases, the time a plane spends waiting on the tarmac rivals the flight itself. A new mathematical tool developed by engineers could change that. Georgios Vatistas, a mechanical … Continue reading
WELLS: 13-year cicada ready to appear
One of the nice things about living out in the country is that you can actually hear the sounds of nature. Big trucks, loud motorcycles and junk cars with rusted out mufflers typically aren’t around to drown out the sounds … Continue reading
2015 Summer Camps for Kids
The Herald-Dispatch / 2015 Sports, theater, science and nature — no matter what interest a child has, chances are there is a summer camp for them. Camps are sorted by start date. To add a camp, email the information to … Continue reading