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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: Sports, California Science Center, Manufacturing and Engineering, Parachuting, U.S. Air Force
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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: U.S. Navy, Weaponry, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government Debt
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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: Employees, Politics, Business, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Manufacturing and Engineering
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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: Corporate Performance, Layoffs and Downsizing, George David, Manufacturing and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense
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NASA solves 30-year solar puzzle with 5 minutes and $5 million
Scientists have taken the highest resolution images of the sun’s atmosphere ever, and it offers an explanation for the decades-old mystery of why its outer most layer is up to 800 times hotter than its surface. Using photos from the High...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Science, NASA, Science and Technology
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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: Anthrax, Politics, Political Fundraising, Manufacturing and Engineering, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Boeing Co., Politics, Leon Panetta, Rob Bishop, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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William C. Brubaker, founding Colts band member
William Charles Brubaker, a retired aeronautical engineer who was a founding trombone player in the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, died Feb. 12 at Sinai Hospital of complications from injuries he suffered near his Lutherville home. Family members said...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Belair Road, Baltimore Ravens, Manufacturing and Engineering, Space Programs
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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: Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Manufacturing and Engineering, Electronics, Career and Workplace
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Lucille Ball, Manufacturing and Engineering, Jack Lemmon, Space Programs
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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: Sports, College Basketball, Broward County, Deerfield Beach, Basketball
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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, Japan, Beijing (China), Manufacturing and Engineering, China
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