Monthly Archives: March 2018

Jack Ables, former Orchard Park High School principal and Air Force Reservist

Nov. 2, 1929 – March 22, 2018 Jack Ables, a longtime Orchard Park High School principal, died Thursday in the Rosa Coplon Jewish Home and Infirmary on the Weinberg Campus in Amherst. He was 88. Mr. Ables was born in … Continue reading

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Outsourcing the enemy: Private sector helps Air Force

To help relieve its pilot shortage, the Air Force needs to lean on more bad guys. Check that: They need good guys who fly like bad guys. And one Newport News-based contractor has that job in its sights. Airborne Tactical … Continue reading

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Rolls-Royce 787 Engine Snag Extends to Airbus A330 – Bloomberg

Glitches with Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engines that have dogged Boeing Co.’s 787 wide-body jet are also an issue for the competing A330neo model from Airbus SE. Rolls-Royce’s Trent 7000 turbine, the only one available on the Airbus plane, shares durability … Continue reading

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Singapore Airlines takes delivery of 1st 787-10 Dreamliner built exclusively in North Charleston

As Boeing Co. celebrated the first delivery on Sunday of a 787-10 Dreamliner to Singapore Airlines, the aerospace giant said it’s taking steps to keep North Charleston at the forefront of commercial airplane production. Singapore Airlines took the first of … Continue reading

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Clyde Beal: 87-year-old shares snippets of life growing up in another era

When 87 year-old Clarence Geswein was asked if he would agree to an interview, he replied there wasn’t much to tell … except those memories of climbing into a boat from the upstairs window during the 1937 flood, Marshall basketball … Continue reading

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Phil Burgess: Helping the young to a legacy of trains, planes and automobiles

Way back in 1993, Mary Sue and I decided to move to Annapolis from Denver. It was a move shaped by desire and experience, not by the requirements of family or a job. It happened this way. During the mid-1980s, … Continue reading

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How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest!

As the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament nears its climax over the next two weeks, data scientists around the world will be watching to see if their predictive algorithms survived the upsets that characterize the annual tourney. The winners will … Continue reading

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