Drones create whole new market for aviation – Kansas.com

October 31, 2014 by  


Kansas.com

Drones create whole new market for aviation
Kansas.com
The University of North Dakota was asked to put together a training program for Spain, but it didn't come together because of all the regulatory issues, said Al Palmer, director for the Center of UAS research at the university. The center lost the work ...

The Future of Cities – Foreign Affairs

October 31, 2014 by  


Foreign Affairs

The Future of Cities
Foreign Affairs
The things that are—and will be—connected aren't just traditional devices, such as computers, tablets, and phones, but also parking spaces and alarm clocks, railroad tracks, street lights, garbage cans, and components of jet engines. All of these ...

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Book a Vacation Rental, and a Jet – New York Times (blog)

October 31, 2014 by  


Book a Vacation Rental, and a Jet
New York Times (blog)
Mr. Trong said that more consumers are using private jets for destination weddings and booking charter flights to transport family members instead of buying individual commercial airline tickets. Le Bas's most popularly requested aircraft models, he ...

UP Aerospace launches again from spaceport – Las Cruces Bulletin

October 31, 2014 by  


UP Aerospace launches again from spaceport
Las Cruces Bulletin
Three of the technologies were flown in collaboration with NASA's Game Changing Development Program: an advanced micro sun sensor from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.; a radiation- tolerant computer system from Montana State ...

UP Aerospace launches again from spaceport – Las Cruces Bulletin

October 31, 2014 by  


UP Aerospace launches again from spaceport
Las Cruces Bulletin
Three of the technologies were flown in collaboration with NASA's Game Changing Development Program: an advanced micro sun sensor from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.; a radiation- tolerant computer system from Montana State ...

RBS Seeks to Deflect Libor Suit by Executive Jet Company – Bloomberg

October 31, 2014 by  


RBS Seeks to Deflect Libor Suit by Executive Jet Company
Bloomberg
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc is fighting a private jet charter company that's seeking to overturn a hedging agreement because the lender tried to rig interest rate benchmarks used to price the contract. RBS said the London Interbank Offered Rate ...

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Heres Why Your Favorite Horror Movies Are So Left-Wing – Daily Beast

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Daily Beast

Heres Why Your Favorite Horror Movies Are So Left-Wing
Daily Beast
Del Toro's creature-filled Pan's Labyrinth (2006) showed the horrors of Franco-era Spain. In his cable-TV series The Strain, a ruthless, .... SpaceShipTwo had been slung under the jet-powered carrier aircraft WhiteKnightTwo before taking off ...

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New global health threat – Times LIVE

October 31, 2014 by  


Times LIVE

New global health threat
Times LIVE
A report presented at an international lung disease conference in Barcelona, Spain, sets out the case for international action against the looming co-epidemic. It challenges the conventional approach of tackling independently infectious diseases, such ...

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New charter air service at Hobby launches Saturday – Houston Chronicle

October 30, 2014 by  


Houston Chronicle

New charter air service at Hobby launches Saturday
Houston Chronicle
Even with rates of $3,000 to $4,000 an hour, private charters can make financial sense for a growing number of energy companies working across Texas. Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration reported a 3 percent drop in domestic business ...

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Why Blessed Paul VI? – Huffington Post

October 30, 2014 by  


Why Blessed Paul VI?
Huffington Post
Paul VI deserves the title the first global pope, for he boarded jet airplanes and went where popes had not gone before, including East Asia and the Americas. In 1965, he was the first pope to travel to ... Paul insisted that the right to private ...

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