Tech Focus

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December 2007

Urie gets last laugh in speech about pursuing dreams

For a guy who said he did not have the obligatory joke to go with his speech, engineer extraordinaire David Urie managed to coax quite a few laughs out of his AeroTech audience.
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October 2007

General Atomics picks San Diego facility for Mariner tests

General Atomics has joined the list of companies using the San Diego Air & Space Technology Center's wind tunnel for aerodynamics testing. The company, based in San Diego, used the facility over a recent two-week period to test a one-tenth-scale model of the 36-ft-long Team Mariner unmanned aircraft system.
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September 2007

A step toward CO₂-neutral aviation

Realizing that small changes in one area of the planet can make large differences in climatic conditions elsewhere (planetary telekinesis), the aviation industry is diligently seeking alternative fueling and combustion methodologies to mitigate harmful emissions and become CO₂-neutral.
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