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What a crazy idea; he might make money anyway. There is a real need for a bush turboprop to be built with the latest aerodynamic and engine technologies. Organizations serving populations in crisis in developing countries need a plane that can operate safely on short dirt airstrips. The Kodiak, with its small wingspan of 45 ft. (15 m), advanced flap technology and high power-to-weight ratio, can land and take off in less than 700 ft. (210 m) and climb at a rapid 1,700 ft. per min. (520 m per min.). The Kodiak can be retrofitted for other...
...director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, his goal is to return artifacts to their communities...
...billion industry in the U.S., of which only a small portion is attributable to NASA or military spending. The commercial share includes spending on satellite television and radio and GPS devices as well as five "spaceports" already licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration in California, Florida, Virginia and Kodiak Island and others under development around the country like the one in New Mexico...
...Klaus Kinski) and La Soufri?re (about his own journey toward an active Guadaloupe volcano from which all others were fleeing). Recently he found two other suitable subjects, made two extraordinary films. One is Timothy Treadwell, the very engaging, and borderline bonkers, ?star? of Grizzly Man, who lived among kodiak bears each fall in southern Alaska. The other is Graham Dorrington, a London University aeronautical engineer, who wants to build and fly a hot air balloon - not a behemoth like the Hindenburg, but a small airship called The White Diamond. ?We can realize our dreams!? says this excitable scientist, who often...
...Milam, 39, is a rescue swimmer for the U.S. Coast Guard in Kodiak, Alaska, which means he spends most of his time jumping out of helicopters to help fishermen who break bones and pilots who crash their private planes. "We're pretty much the area ambulance service," he says. Before he was dispatched to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Milam had never been called out of Alaska for a mission and had never done urban search-and-rescue work. But like thousands of other personnel, he was brought to Louisiana to do what the Coast Guard does...