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Founded by Christian A. Rudder ’98 and Justin A. Rice ’99, Bishop Allen defies the seemingly indelible line that separates Ivy League from rock ’n’ roll. Backed by Miller and bassist Bonnie A. Karin, who graduated from Brown in 2001, Rice and Rudder serve up light, catchy rock fare, honed over four years in Cambridge...
...It’s a day-job. It’s an entrepreneurial venture. It’s a band,” says Rudder, who recently quit his job to devote himself full-time to managing Bishop Allen. “It’s been taking off in the last month, but there was a load of groundwork and busting our ass for a long time...
...OneWorld told the America's Cup Arbitration Panel the designs were stolen by a former employee. Unconvinced, the panel docked OneWorld a competition point. Still, dueling on the high seas would be nothing without an element of skulduggery. So nervous are the teams about others pinching their keel and rudder designs that whenever the boats are lifted out of the water they shroud the hulls in huge curtains. Those curtains were very much in evidence dockside in Auckland last week, as the competing syndicates worked on design modifications to extract extra speed from wind and water. The next round robin...
...small building on the edge of the Roswell, N.M., airport, we were given a preflight briefing. Even the veteran pilots were getting butterflies as they listened to the flight plan. Knotts explained the sequence of maneuvers we would fly to re-create such real-life accident scenarios as the rudder failure of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1994 and a hydraulic failure that resulted in the cartwheeling crash of United Airlines Flight...
Then it was up in the sky. Flying the Learjet, even with it customized to feel like a 737, makes one realize just how little time a pilot has to react to a crisis. We tried rudder malfunctions, icing problems, wake turbulence and losing all hydraulic power. In one exercise, pilots are told to point the nose almost directly at the ground and then pull like hell out of the dive. Watching the ground get closer in the Learjet's large cockpit windows was frightening; it felt as if it took forever before we started to climb...