View Point

    April 2014
    Should we put bigger batteries in airplane black boxes?

    Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

    One question a lot of people are asking in the wake of the Malaysia Airline Flight 370 tragedy (yet to be resolved as I write this), and the resulting mystery as to its fate, is why don’t flight data recorders (called “black boxes”), have bigger batteries? In many cases a crashed aircraft can be relatively ea
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    Date:
    04/30/2014
    Making better motors and controls help move the world forward

    Alix Paultre, Editorial Director, PSD

    Making tools that move has been a part of human development since the wheel and lathe, and the drive to make our tools and moving devices more precise, accurate, and easier to operate has been an almost continuous process since the first complex tool was created. Every one of those aspects are vital to the nature of
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    Date:
    04/05/2014
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