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Daredevil went faster than previously thought during 24-mile fall
The results are in from Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting leap from a capsule floating more than 24 miles above a barren New Mexico desert, and it turns out he went faster during his supersonic free fall than originally estimated. With more...
Tags: Air and Aviation Sports, NASA, U.S. Air Force, SpaceX, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Gordon Brush plant owner bristles at red tape tying up expansion
Ken Rakusin is frustrated. You would be too. Since 2009, the owner of Gordon Brush Manufacturing Co. has been trying to expand his 51,000-square-foot City of Commerce factory by 20,000 square feet. That would mean a larger factory floor, more office...
Tags: Economic Policy, Labor Markets, NASA, Southern California Edison Company, Business
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Northrop Grumman pins Navy contract strategy on Linthicum facility
The specter of federal budget reductions has meant hundreds of jobs lost at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Maryland, but as the defense contractor vies to build a key Navy radar system, that same cost-cutting pressure could boost the importance of Northrop's...
Tags: Military Equipment, Raytheon Company, Job Layoffs, U.S. Department of Defense, Layoffs and Downsizing
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BioWatch stands at a crossroads
WASHINGTON -- Year after year, health officials meeting at invitation-only government conferences leveled with one another about BioWatch, the nation's system for detecting deadly pathogens that might be unleashed into the air by terrorists. They...Tags: George W. Bush, Smallpox , Elections, Janet Napolitano, Health and Medical Professionals
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Northrop Grumman announces layoffs in Md., Va.
Northrop Grumman on Wednesday notified about 60 people, primarily in Maryland and Virginia, in its electronics systems segment that they will be out of jobs at the end of the month. In October, the aerospace and defense contractor announced it was...
Tags: Sykesville, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs, Electronics, Annapolis
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Pratt Wraps Up Program For F119 Engine That Powered F-22 Raptor
It was April 23, 1991, when Pratt & Whitney's future changed in an instant. The Air Force that day announced that its new advanced tactical fighter jet would be built by Lockheed Martin and powered by Pratt's F119 engine, a decades-long production...
Tags: Military Equipment, United Technologies Corporation, U.S. Department of Defense, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs
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Broward County high school sports schedule, Jan. 21-26
Sun SentinelMONDAY, Jan. 21 BOYS BASKETBALL (Games at 7:30 p.m. unless noted) Cypress Bay at Western; Plantation at Fort Lauderdale; Nova at Hollywood Hills; McArthur at West Broward; Pine Crest at Key West, 2; Sheridan Hills at Northwest Christian. GIRLS...Tags: High School Sports, Wrestling, Broward County, Basketball, Deerfield Beach
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Letters: Defending the Dreamliner
Re "FAA grounds entire fleet of Boeing 787s," Jan. 17 Although the recent incidents with Boeing's 787 are concerning, this is not the end of the Dreamliner. Mandatory groundings and airworthiness directives from the Federal Aviation Administration...Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry, Manufacturing and Engineering
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China-Japan tension over disputed islands takes to the sky
BEIJING -- Chinese and Japanese fighter planes tailed each other over a disputed cluster of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, raising alarm that a miscalculation could set off an armed confrontation. Chinese military authorities ordered two J-...
Tags: Italy, Military Equipment, Japan, China, Beijing (China)
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Bowl games 2012-13 TV schedule
Channel Guide MagazineCollege football bowl games 2012-13 TV schedule begins with the Gildan New Mexico Bowl Dec. 15 and ends with the BCS National Championship Jan. 7. The Gildan New Mexico Bowl between Nevada and Arizona Dec. 15 at 1pm ET on ESPN won’t be the most... -
Cleanliness is key for robotic space explorers
WATERTON CANYON, Colo. — The concrete-floored room looks, at first glance, like little more than a garage. There is a red tool chest, its drawers labeled: "Hacksaws." "Allen wrenches." There are stepladders and vise grips. There is also, at one...
Tags: Space Programs, NASA, Sneezing, Manufacturing and Engineering, Nuclear Power
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Navy catapults experimental bat-winged drone into flight [Video]
For the first time, the U.S. Navy has catapulted the bat-winged X-47B drone into flight. The test conducted Thursday wasn’t at sea, but rather at a shore-based catapult facility at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. It marks the first of...
Tags: Aircraft Carriers, Northrop Grumman Corporation, U.S. Navy, Harry S. Truman, Manufacturing and Engineering
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