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The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors

...utomobiles, grew up in Switzerland where he, too, fell in love with fast cars. He also enjoyed fast airplanes, serving as a fighter pilot in the American Marine Corps from 1954 to 1965. His 45 years o...

At Last, a Vintage Photo Site That Invites You to Share Your Pre-70s Memories

...everything from beach holidays dating back several decades, to wartime photos, to cars, trains, and airplanes, backed by a map that locates where photos were taken. Got some wonderful old black-and-wh...

Dolphins Inspire Nanotech Research at University of Nevada

...nergy machines." "Suhr envisions using the pliable manufactured nanocomposites to allow airplanes and aerospace vehicles to cut through the air more efficiently, saving fuel," Wolterb...

Wicked Winter Weather

...e. When questioned, one female SUV owner asked, "What's four wheel drive?" 2:50 PM Airplanes are grounded and ferries docked. No way to travel between Island and the ROTW (rest of th...

GM Chairman Leaves Jet in Detroit, Returns to Washington at the Wheel of a Car

...this flagrant abuse of funds while secretly envying them the opportunity. That's because I love airplanes and living next to an international airport get to see those sleek birds landing and takin...

Strategies for product configuration optimization

...Today, order based configuration is not only limited to products such as computers or airplanes and many sectors are adopting the practice of postponement in order to reduce inventory of finished prod...

Florida State University to Spin Off Buckypaper Company

...ranklin . "The super-strong buckypaper could be layered like papier mâché to build lighter airplanes and cars, or it could be exposed to an electric charge and used to illuminate computer and t...

In the Heart of Mexico City

...ough, is both ideal and terrible. The neighborhood's proximity to the airport means there are airplanes flying overhead at regular intervals. And then there's the hand horn if the pork rinds ...

Supply and demand planning in the military

...an military, they have created some degree of agility by using some chartered flights using russian airplanes. Using 3rd party service provider (here russian forces), they have kept the costs down and...

Didj You Hear About Leapfrog's New Handheld?

...ystems are a great way for kids to pass the time on summer afternoons. Kids use them in the car, on airplanes, and even outside when they should be playing. If the kids are playing with them, why not ...

Should Overweight People Pay More to Fly?

...d that person pay more for his/her size? And, if so, what do they get for their extra money? Should airplanes be forced to create a jumbo seat row for larger passengers, with a higher ticket price? It...

More Reasons to go Private When You Fly

People are getting sick and tired of the ever-increasing issues they're having at airports If you've flown in the last couple of years, you probably already know that I'm about to tell you people are NOT happy. Over one quarter of all flights in the US are late. The number of peopl...

最奢侈的iPhone

...imcandy video network - Aircell gets FAA approval for WiFi in airplanes - AT&T 将率先购置Microsoft Surface table - Windows Live OneCare 2.5 开放公开beta 测试 - $59 Nike+ SportBand Works Without iPod ...

New Antarctica Airport

...e sun and warms up, causing melts and pitted surfaces and creating a potentially unsafe surface for airplanes. Without the snow 'pavement', aircraft could slide across the runway during crossw...

Aviation History: Discovery Crash & John Glenn

... off. February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. February 22, 1935: Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House. Thanks Infoplease! ...

Plane Sheets for the Traveller with Food Allergies

Have allergies, will travel? You might want to bring personal airline seat covers with you. Considering that there often isn't enough time between flights to thoroughly clean airline seats, you never know what the previous passenger has been eating or spilling on exactly the same space you&...

Two Irish Airplanes Struck by Lightning

Who says lightning doesn't strike twice. According to an article on MSNBC , two Ireland-based aer lingus flights were struck by lightning at the Shannon Airport in Ireland. Luckily, no one was injured, but both planes did suffer damage, stopping the planes from reaching their final des...

The Top 10 Businesspundit Posts of 2007

...arate her feelings about an idea from the quality of writing about it. #3 - What Bullet Holes in Airplanes Can Teach You About Making Better Business Decisions . A lesson in cognitive dissonance. ...

Tablet Computers

...d laptop. The biggest advantage tablets have according to Berry is that they are easier to use on airplanes. It allows you to adjust the screen if the person in front of you lowers his seat back. An...

The Reason for Your Economy Class Blues

You've asked yourself what ever happened to the pillow and headset you once got what you plopped down in your economy class seat abroad the airplane. Come to think of it, didn't the seat used to be bigger too? And those head phones? You can buy them, for $5 bucks. You even have to pay for...

Fuel Prices Begin to Affect Air Travelers

You've felt the sting of high gas prices when you fill up at the pump. But what about when you purchase your Airline ticket ? For the most part, gas prices have not inflicted too much financial worry on travelers. Rather than raising fares, many carriers have cut down the number of flig...

Virgin Founder With Eyes on the Sky: Social Spotlight

...ack. "The group has vowed to prove that clean fuels with zero gashouse emissions can work with airplanes, but the trick he said will be to find a fuel that doesn't freeze at 30,000 feet."...

How to Survive the Holiday Travel Season

...of the "official" holiday season by planning their gatherings when the weather is better, airplanes less crowded and deals more plentiful. 2. Time shift Highways, train stations, airports a...

How suppliers´roles have changed at Boeing

... Steven Schaffer , vice president of global partners at Boeing Commercial Airplanes , was selected couple of weeks ago as the supply chain manager of the year by Purchasing Magazine . One of the rea...

What's It Like in the Cockpit?

Frequent fliers are old friends with an airplane's passenger cabin. They know all the tricks of how to sleep, how to pass the time, and how react with nonchalance when the plane is tossed around by turbulence. I've often wondered what it's like in the cockpit of one of these planes. Prob...

A New King of The Sky

A couple of days ago, the new Airbus A380 took its maiden voyage. The giant plane, much bigger than Boeing's 747, is the newest plane in Singapore Airline's fleet. A 747 holds 400 people, while the A380, in a regular configuration (row seating with a business class), can hold tw...

Aviation Quote: Lane Wallace

...the world is a beautiful place, and that dreams really, truly are possible." And then, because airplanes speak in a language beyond words, I'll take him up in the evening summer sky and let t...

UK Regulator Ofcom Okays Mobile Phones In Flight

Ofcom yesterday offered a set of proposals to enable mobile phone use on British aircraft. As the Daily Telegraph's Emma Thelwell explains, "Under Ofcom's proposals, once a plane reaches a minimum height of 3000 metres, an on-board 'base station,' which connects to ...

U.K.-Singapore Air Deal: A Change for the Better

According to TTG Asia , Singapore and Britain have reached an agreement that will drastically change the amount of air traffic between the two countries. The pact removes any cap on services between both countries and beyond to any cities in the world, allows for aircraft to be based in each ...

Low Air Quality Aboard Planes

Have you ever disembarked from a long haul flight feeling "not quite right?" I have. I've never gotten sick from flying, but I almost always get vague discomforts like increased sinus pressure or fatigue. It took me a while to find someone beside myself to blame for this. But, alas,...

Government Watchdog Says Airlines Coming Up Short

...at times. Remember the JetBlue incident a few months ago? Remember that some passengers waited on airplanes for 10 1/2 hours? Maybe this report will stir up some publicity and make the airlines impr...

Travel to Europe for FREE

... Let's start... To get to the continent, you can AirHitch . It's like hitchhiking but on airplanes instead of cars. You have to be flexible, though. And when you arrive in Europe, you can...

Experts Say Steve Fossett Likely Dead

...f finding Steve Fossett are slim. I personally find it frustrating and hard to believe that a dozen airplanes have not been able to at least locate the plane wreckage. But, according to an ABC news s...

Still No Sign or Word from Fossett

... are canvassing Nevada's rugged mountains and steep canyons for any sign of clues. They include airplanes, helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane. The C-130 soars more than 10 times as high as the ...

83-Year Old Man Records 100th Skydive

...ill you be doing at 83 years old? An 83-year-old New York skydiver, who's been jumping out of airplanes for less than 10 years, has reached the 100-jump mark. Leo Dean of Albany now has his sig...

Congo Transport Ministry Grounds Two Airlines

Lately, there have been a rash of airline incidents and crashes. And on Wednesday, the Congo transport ministry grounded two airlines following an investigation into to a crash that killed 13 people. The Congo is also investigating a crash on June 21 that killed one person. Luckily, 25 people abro...

FAA Requiring 737 Wing Inspections

...shes, most notably, the China Airlines fire last week in Japan. The inspections are on all 783 U.S. airplanes and hopefully will be applied to all 737 worldwide. The FAA's emergency airworthiness...

Marry off RFID and Barcode technologies, says Frost and Sullivan report

... than five decades and was first implemented in the Second World War for identification of friendly airplanes If we talk about the costs of RFID then they have certainly dropped in the last ten years ...

World Airport Awards

Airports, love them or hate them, they are a necessity of international travel. Skytrax completed its annual awards recently by knighting Hong Kong's airport the best in the world . However, H.K. International was not the runaway winner. Yes, the South China Seas' most storied air hub h...

China Airlines Apologizes for Fire

...ation by apologizing and handing out money to the 165 passengers who escaped a fire on one of their airplanes. However, many of the survivors insist the damage has already been done. "I apologi...

Aviation Quotes: Charles Lindbergh

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil , in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unl...

Two Singapore Airplanes Clip Wings

Talk about a close call. On Saturday, two Singapore Airlines clipped wings when taxiing. Luckily, no one was injured and either plane suffered damage. "Investigations are underway into the cause, and the pilots of both flights are assisting with those investigations," the spokesman sa...

Best Airline Announced Next Week

As promised, I'm keeping my eye out for the results of the Skytrax annual World Airline Awards . Their web site states that the results will be announced next week. The World Airport Awards will be announced at the same time. Some of the favorites include Quantas, Cathay Pacific, Emirates...

Booktour.com Connecting Authors and Book Lovers

One of the problems with the book industry is that has some winner-take-all effects. Once a book hits a tipping point, it takes off and everyone reads it, even if it crap. Oprah could recommend that people buy and read the dictionary, and suddenly Merriam-Webster wouldn't be able to keep ...

High Testosterone Affects Financial Decisions

If you follow behavioral economics, you have most likely heard of the ultimatum game. It is played with two participants. The first is offered $40 and allowed to choose how much of that $40 to share with the second person. If the second person accepts the offer, the money is awarded to each as ag...

Buying Blog Comments

As if bloggers don't already get enough comment spam, now spammers can Buy Blog Comments . I think most bloggers are pretty diligent about removing comments that are worthless or seem to be purely for search engine ranking purposes, so I'm not sure it's worth the money to use this se...

7/9/07 Carnival of the Capitalists

The Married Guy Cook has the latest Carnival of the Capitalists . I especially liked Wally Bock's letter to a new manager from this latest edition. We are in need of hosts, so visit the CotC homepage and sign up.

Executive Stock Options Correlate With Higher Fraud Rates

New research shows that when companies with historically mediocre performance meet executives with lots of stock based compensation, the situation is ripe for fraud . "Millions and sometimes tens of millions of dollars worth of CEO compensation ride on these stock options ," ex...

The World's New Richest Man

According to this , Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. Of course, if Helu's wealth is based primarily on his company's stock price , his reign at the top may be short lived.

World Airline Awards

July is the month when the airline industry gets a little excited. The prestigious Skytrax World Airline Awards will be announced later this month. A lot of what one hears about the quality of airlines is subjective, but the Skytrax awards are recognized by the airline industry as one of...

What Bullet Holes in Airplanes Can Teach You About Making Better Business Decisions

... During World War II, statistician Abraham Wald tried to determine where to add extra armor to airplanes. Based on the patterns of bullet holes in returning airplanes, he suggested that the parts...

Journalist Ticks Off Wine Industry

...s, wine shipped by sea has a much smaller carbon footprint when compared to trucks and, especially, airplanes. Here's a link to Eco-Warrior by the way. [ image link ] ...

Airbus to Allow Cell Phone Use

... The revitalized Airbus became the first aircraft maker to approve the use of cell phones onboard airplanes. According to a statement released by Airbus, passengers will be able to make and receive ...

Aviation Industry Going Green?

...t each year, according to industry trade groups. Meanwhile, technological developments are boosting airplanes' fuel efficiency by about 1 to 2 percent a year. Also, since airlines keep aircraft fo...

Big Changes for Delta Airlines

...tcy this year, Delta is debating between the Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner or the Airbus A350 XWB airplanes to replace its current fleet. We do need to make a decision really by the end of this ye...

Climate change liability risks

...mpacts. Insurers insure carbon-intensive industries as well as homes, autos, and pollution-emitting airplanes that are some of the primary causes of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Many...

Problogger.net Top 5 Group Writing Project - The Rest of List

Ooops! It seems The MT has eaten a big chunk of my Problogger.net Top 5 Group Writing Project list of participants! I apologize to those who ended up being left out; it wasn't intentional. But don't worry; here's the rest of the list. If it gets eaten again, I'll republish it...

Master of the Obvious

...well. Think of southwest airline 's Chairman and Founder's Herb Kelleher saying "Airplanes don't make any money when they are sitting on the ground." Or of George Zimmer, C...

Fuel Cell Airplanes

Boeing researchers will conduct experimental flight tests this year featuring a manned airplane that is powered only by a fuel cell and some batteries. According to this report , the plane will have a wing span of about 16 meters and will cruise at 100 kilometers per hour. Looks like Boei...

Wi-Fi in the Sky

... Journal's Scott McCartney reports today that Wi-Fi will soon be airborne. "The days when airplanes offer a hiatus from being connected to the office are numbered," he writes. McCar...

FCC to Hang Up on In-Flight Cell Phone Use

...t FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin is planning to give up on the idea of allowing mobile phone use on airplanes "because it is not clear whether the network on the ground can handle the calls."...

Death Valley: Land Of Extremes Part Three

...weekend, there was also an obvious flight path, as easy to spot as the constellation, with a row of airplanes across the entire night sky carrying fans to watch the spectacle unfold. One reporter call...

The 2007 State of the Union Address

.... To prevail, we must remove the conditions that inspire blind hatred, and drove 19 men to get onto airplanes and to come and kill us. What every terrorist fears most is human freedom -- societies w...

The Economics of Coal to Liquid Fuel

... Because I started writing about coal to liquid fuel for cars and possibly jet airplanes, I really began to ponder about the economics of doing such. Would a concept as daring as that work? Accordi...

Coal to Liquid Fuel Proposals in US Congress

...rted or are in advanced stages of experimentation in converting coal to diesel fuel or jet fuel for airplanes. One thing is for sure, these law makers will get flak from the environmentalists and sup...

FAA Changes Safety Rules for Long-Range Flights

...iability of today's aircraft engines . It covers the design, maintenance and operation of airplanes and engines for extended operations flights - commonly called ETOPS - that go beyond certa...

Embry Riddle Back in Flight

...ull fleet on the 16th, which is downright nothing short of amazing." Ayers said all 40 of the airplanes that were destroyed are in the process of being replaced, plus they'll have some extra...

SeatGuru Finds the Best Seat For Your Flight Home

...ly, and going postal on the flight crew. With its color-coded layouts of major carriers' airplanes, you can avoid seats too close to galleys and lavatories, with limited leg or recline room...

U.S. Certifies Airbus A380

...nal Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is currently considering the minimum separation criteria for airplanes operating behind an A380 in all phases of flight to minimize wake vortex effects. All i...

Boeing Nixing Net

... offering Boeing's Internet service include Korean Air, Lufthansa and Air China. According to Airplanes.com Blog : ...with the rising cost of fuel and other expenses, airlines have been relucta...