23rd August, 2006
No Mechanical Problems in Glider Crash
Federal investigators say it doesn't appear there were any mechanical problems with a motorized glider that crashed in Canandaigua last week.
A passenger on the glider, who is a flight inspector, told investigators that he did not notice any malfunctions with the glider.
The glider pilot, Gregory Keating was trying ......
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23rd August, 2006
Mechanical Rainbows, Politics Enliven U.K. Shows: Karen Wright
Two venues, two contemporary artists yet how different the places and the responses can be. In London, I am at the Hospital, Dave Stewart's trendy gallery, to see an exhibition by Anya Gallaccio; the next day, I am in Bexhill-on-Sea, a recently reopened public space, to view a Jeremy Deller ......
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21st August, 2006
Hai Phong exports mechanical tools to US market
The Hai Phong Machinery Manufacturing J.S.C (HMMC) so far this year has exported 200 mechanical tools and other machinery to the United States market.
The company in 2005 earned 300,000 USD from exporting machines to the US market and expects to reach the one-million-USD level by 2007.
HMMC's products have gained ......
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21st August, 2006
Non-contact stress analysis & mechanical testing
The ALTAIR Li system from Cedip Infrared Systems (www.cedip-infrared.com) employs a high performance infrared focal plane array camera to provide high quality thermal images of stress in materials and structures under dynamic loading conditions.
Using proprietary software these thermal images are converted into full field stress images in real time. ......
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21st August, 2006
Mechanical mayhem invades the speedway
When the sun sets at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds Sunday, the infield of Placerville Speedway will resemble a wrecking yard - remnants of a classic battle that took place for the 33rd consecutive year. Those who were there have many tales to tell of mechanical mayhem.
Motor-sports enthusiasts, it's derby ......
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16th August, 2006
Engineering consultancy adds mechanical handling
Rotherham, UK-based engineering consultancy Bennett Associates has strengthened its senior design team with the appointment of Julian Bonfield, one of the UK's leading specialists in the design of heavy-duty mechanical handling equipment, as a principal consultant. Bonfield, a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, joins the company after 22 ......
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16th August, 2006
MECHANICAL GREMLINS BITE MAYHEW AGAIN; MOVES INTO FIFTH IN POINTS
Like the summer re-runs that plague the TV lineup this time of year, it was a repeat of a different kind that plagued David Mayhew in the ?Stock Building Supply 100? on Saturday night at Irwindale Speedway.
As was the case at Stockton, and Altamont before that, the story line ......
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13th August, 2006
Mechanical hulks bring the flame to the party
The hour-long ritual was put on by Survival Research Labs, a Northern California performance art group populated by mad hardware hackers armed with welding torches and copious quantities of flammable liquids.
Before Robot Wars, before Monster Garage, before BattleBots, there was SRL, which traces its history to the late 1970s ......
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10th August, 2006
Mechanical defects plague many external defibrillators
Mechanical glitches in automated external defibrillators have caused around 370 deaths, a new study finds. Automated external defibrillators are life-saving devices used to re-start the heart after a cardiac arrest.
Automated external defibrillators are now present in malls, airports, even some churches and offer assurance that sudden cardiac death can ......
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10th August, 2006
Ultra-flat motors are just 2mm thin
Ideal for use with scanning heads, microfans, micropumps, high-precision positioning systems and in a whole host of other innovative applications, the new ultra-flat Penny Motors from the Faulhaber Group and distributed in the UK by EMS (Electro Mechanical Systems) are no more than 2mm thick yet, depending on the model, ......
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