Entries from September 2010 ↓

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

In reading your article, “A trip back in time,” my mind went back to 1960 when I traded for a 1939 Taylorcraft. I had only been up in a small airplane a couple of times. The T-craft was a little airport bum and little did I know of the maintenance problems I had traded for. In an effort to get the annual signed off, I found out. Read more…

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In addition to being a sponsor of the Zurich Film Festival, Maurice Lacroix is also the sponsor of the festival’s Audience Award for the best film. This year, the maker of the winning film for the Audience Award will receive one of the 36 limited edition Maurice Lacroix Pontos Chronograph Zurich Film Festival Limited Edition watches. Not only that, but the judges and the a few other award winners from the festival will receive timepieces. My question is, “will there be any left in this limited edition for the public to buy?”

The watch is based on the standard Maurice Lacroix Pontos Chronograph line of watches. Most Pontos Chronographs comes in 43mm wide steel cases, and have a nice chunky design to them. While I am not a fan of all Maurice Lacroix timepieces, The mod-retro looks of the Pontos Chronograph do speak to me. In this limited edition form, the watch has a highly functional black dial with applied hour markers and lume tipped hands. I quite like the frames around the chronograph subdials, as well as the shape of the hands.

Inside the watch is a Swiss ETA Valjoux 7750 automatic chronograph movement. For the Zurich Film Festival version of the watch, Maurice Lacroix removed the subsidiary seconds counter to give the dial a bi-compax array look. It does give the watch a handsome visage. Also for this limited edition is the placement of the Zurich Film Festival logo in the minutes subdial counter of the watch. The colors alone add an interesting visual to the face of this piece. Also, don’t you love the “twirled fluting” design engraved on the crown? The chronograph pushers are also designed to almost look like two sides of a crown guard. Most of these watches will be available for sales by Maurice Lacroux authorized dealers in Zurich. Price for each of the (available) watches in this limited edition will be 3,200 Swiss Francs.

By Ariel Adams

The FAA will provide four projects with grants as part of the NASA reauthorization bill and a federal effort to ensure the U.S. “remains the world leader in space development and exploration,” according to FAA administrator Randy Babbitt. The projects will direct funding to the New Mexico Spaceport Authority for automated weather observation; the Alaska Aerospace Corporation for a rocket motor storage facility; the East Kern Disctict in Mojave, Calif., for an emergency response vehicle; and the Hacksonville Airport Authority in Florida, to devise a master plan for a spaceport at Cecil Field. The grants range from about $40,000 to nearly $105,000 and are part of the NASA reauthorization bill, which backs commercial crew and cargo programs with $1.6 billion. The FAA’s own reauthorization bill on September 24 was substituted with another three-month extension (the 16th, we think … if you’re still counting).

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