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...firm grip on the Dreamliner's development, but that's because he knows when to let go. Bair says Boeing made as significant a change in how it approached systems, avionics and hydraulics as it did in giving more responsibility to its high-cost partner manufacturers such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan and Italy's Alenia/ Vought Aircraft Industries. For example, the specification control document, which explains how to build an electrical-distribution system, was about 2,500 pages for the 777. "[Partners] had to figure out 2,500 pages of stuff, and we monitored them applying...
...announced the 677 orders. The pixilated numbers appeared in story-high brilliance on each side of the stage and a roar overtook the building. The managers and workers of Boeing's supply partners who collaborated to develop the 787 joined the event via satellite from six locations, including Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi in Japan, Alenia in Italy, and Global Aeronautica/Vought and Spirit...
...responsible for the safety of Japanese citizens like Megumi?and be met with indifference, or worse: that was a special kind of pain. "At the beginning the government was not supportive at all," says the 73-year-old Yokota, sitting in the lobby of his apartment complex in rainy Kawasaki, a city west of Tokyo, posters of Megumi pinned to the walls. "People would just slap the petitions out of our hands." But when the Yokotas met Shinzo Abe, they knew they'd encountered a different kind of politician. Abe had been active on the abductee issue since the late...
...agreed to extend her court-imposed home confinement three weeks, until Aug. 31, after reports that she violated the terms of her house arrest. Stewart may have irked authorities by unrolling her mat at a nearby hatha yoga class and tooling around her suburban New York estate on a Kawasaki Mule four-wheel-drive vehicle. Imprisoned for lying about a stock trade, Stewart will still be freed in time for the fall debuts of her new TV programs, the syndicated daily talk show Martha and NBC's The Apprentice. In the meantime, she can practice her downward dogs at home...
Powered by a modified 900-cc Kawasaki motorcyle engine, the Hexapod walks with the aid of 16 on-board computers. The data processors get their information from sensors and use it to guide the vehicle forward, backward or to the side. Scientists at Ohio State, who have spent $5 million so far developing the Hexapod, will put the machine through its first walking test this fall...