by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Small companies are encouraged to start up near potential customers. So why is Rotor, which hopes to turn small helicopters into autonomous crop-dusting machines for big farms out west, based at Nashua Airport and testing prototypes from a private airstrip in...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
As mythological metaphors go, the one that SNHU professor David Humphreys gave during a recent talk about the eruption of technologies known as artificial intelligence wasn’t terribly reassuring. “We’ve opened a Pandora’s box,” he told two dozen university students...
by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
As the region’s aviation community anxiously awaits the annual yes-or-no decision about whether the Alton Bay Ice Runway will open, here’s a tidbit to consider: Keeping Cessnas and Beechcraft from crashing through as they land isn’t why officials have to wait until...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Flying cars have lost most of their cutting-edge coolness to drones and electric aircraft. Nothing reflected this more than the way Terrafugia, the MIT spinoff that worked on a flying car in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for years, saw it turned into a...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
As more New Hampshire lakes suffer from blooms of toxic algae due to warming weather and increased development, two water bodies in Henniker were part of a study of a faster way to spot outbreaks, using drones. “With the (drone), a small lake might take as little as...