It is supposed to be about fun, one man told the assembled journalists this morning, as we sat in a conference room facing K Street in Washington, D.C. They gathered us here to set the stage before they went off to battle against a three-letter F-word: the FAA. The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), a community-based hobbyist organization founded in 1936, is spending today lobbying Congress for new rules about their airplanes. It's the latest effort to make sure that, whatever future drones bring to the skies, there's still room for children to fly their airborne toys for fun.
As I board the Norwegian Coast Guard's icebreaking ship the KV Svalbard, officers greet me with salutes. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to salute back, or if that would be impolite, so I just say hello (or the Norwegian "hei hei," to be more specific). The officers crack a smile in reply.
While everyone else is going gaga over connected cars, autonomous cars, and cars that use electricity, hydrogen, or a suspension of unicorn fur as fuel, Jannarelly Automotive is creating a brand-new company that kicks it old school.
Real estate tycoon turned entertainer turned Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently gave a speech saying, among other things, he wants to force Apple to make its products in the U.S. instead of “other countries”.
Across the globe, more than 100 buildings have reached a height of 300 meters (the approximate height of the Eiffel Tower) or higher, putting them in a category architects call "supertall." Many of them sprang up in the past dozen or so years, which could be considered the supertall era. But according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, as reported by Dezeen, supertall is SO last decade. Now we're entering the regime of the megatall skyscraper, a category reserved for behemoths taller than 600 meters.
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