His previous album, The Curious Flying Machine was featured on Second Stage last year.

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While the west coast Portland has been pushing all the right buttons on the marketing machine, east coast Portland is happily flying under the radar, attracting only the savviest of art oglers.

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We only knew the horrible death, running when the machine guns come, seeing the bullets flying and seeing my friends being shot, two of them.

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In 2011, Mr. Li sold out to some Florida-based silent partners, and he now splits his time between Florida and Canada, continuing to develop the Jetlev design while pursuing intellectual-property litigation (there are, in fact, at least two other hydraulically powered flying-machine designs in the world).

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The film is beautiful, if predictable, wrought with iconic Cartier imagery and feats of digital technology (the panther hitching a ride atop an antique flying machine is a nice touch).

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The FAA's depiction of an altimeter in its test booklet looks like no altimeter seen in any flying machine.

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As the passage implies, even something as seemingly simple as an airplane flying in the sky is actually just one part of a large sociotechnical system composed of various human and machine elements, from the pilot and airplane to a series of airports, communication and navigation systems, bureaucracies, regulations, rules and norms of flight, and more.

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