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Showing posts with label aviation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aviation. Show all posts
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Beware of bugs

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Back in the days when I earned my living as a computer programmer, we coexisted constantly with bugs . I believe that such tiny evil spirits...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Heritage aviation remains a dangerous affair

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This unique modern replica of the airplane of the Wright brothers is referred to as the Wright "B" Flyer Silver Bird . Its fir...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Potentially breakneck Aussie invention

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Some Aussie activities don't look particularly risky at first sight. Take rock fishing, for example. There's no danger whatsoever in...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Friday mystery

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This week, the excellent online Gallica department of the national French library asks us to try to identify the designer of the aeronautic...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Sinister name

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In the following NASA image, the dense white horizontal bars that look like gigantic clouds indicate the shifting location of the Intertrop...
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Flight pioneers

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Over the last year or so, there has been some discussion about the claim that the hang glider was invented by John Dickenson in Grafton, bu...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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