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Igor Sikorsky's VS-300 Helicopter Transformed Aviation 75 Years Ago
2014-09-13 02:34:39| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The first flight event began a four-year test program that proved the efficiency of Sikorsky's single rotor design, gave birth to a global helicopter industry, and forever changed the course of aviation history. "Tens of thousands of helicopters today fly the world's skies, and the configuration almost all of them use is a single main rotor coupled to an anti-torque tail rotor.
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The Alibaba Effect: How China's eBay Transformed Village Economics
2014-09-11 10:19:26| Furniture - Topix.net
The Chinese e-commerce behemoth, Alibaba , is poised this week for what could be one of the biggest IPOs in Wall Street history. One reason Alibaba has been so dominant in China is its business-to-consumer platform, Taobao , a sort of Chinese eBay.
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Fires and drought have transformed New Mexico forests
2014-08-31 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Las Cruces News: Gambel oak and other shrubs whose roots survived a lightning-sparked wildfire in 2013 sprout on many slopes once dominated by ponderosa pines. Black, mangled masses of wood and dead barley plants loom over the new growth, which also includes aspens, grass and wildflowers. The barley grew last fall from seeds the U.S. Forest Service dropped to minimize erosion after the Silver Fire. Pines survived in many areas within the 139,000-acre burn scar. But in other places, the trees were incinerated --...
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10 Disrupters: A Transformed Giant
2014-07-18 17:39:00| National Real Estate Investor
David Bodamer Bradley Trotter steps in to oversee GE Capital Real Estates mega North American portfolio. GE Capital Real Estate was one of the entities that got hit hardest by the Great Recession. At its peak in 2008, GE Capital Real Estate had $91 billion in assets, of which 56 percent was in equity and 44 percent was in debt. What has transpired since has been a rapid repositioning. After taking time to slim down, absorb losses and reconfigure its portfolio, the firm is once again a major force. Today the firm has global assets of $38 billion, with 63 percent in debt and 37 percent in equity. read more
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Transformers transformed
2014-06-05 21:11:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Using vegetable oil as an insulating fluid reduces transformer fire risk Every year, a number of transformer failures result in a fire. Because the transformers insulating fluid is flammable, fires can be sustained for several hours or days. The fire, smoke and possible fluid leakage can pose a risk not only to human and animal health and to the environment, but also to adjacent equipment. read more
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