Soaring above (and diving below) manufacturing history
By TOM MARINER // Sixty-seven months after the day in 1903 when Orville Wright flew 120 feet in the first powered aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Curtiss flew 25…
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Island environmental innovator swings in $966M deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A hot-potato environmental innovator with a vital Great River operational hub has been acquired in a nearly $1 billion stock deal. Idaho-based US Ecology Inc. announced…
Future female pilots wing it at 2019 Air Show preview
By GREGORY ZELLER // With female pilots set to soar high in this year’s Bethpage Air Show, nearly two dozen high school girls flew out in front of the Memorial…
The shutdown and you: A Long Islander’s guide
By JEFF GUILLOT // One thing I drill into the collective consciousness of students every semester is that the role of the federal government in your daily life is minimal,…
Nothing to fear, unless you’re a radiological terrorist
By GREGORY ZELLER // Pay no attention to that imposing fleet of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard and New York State Naval Militia vessels massing off the East End. Governor…