World War II-era bombers and fighter planes will be on display and available to fly this weekend at the Museum of Flight. By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch Seattle Times Staff Reporter GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES This view of Seattle and Lake Washington is from the nose of a World War II era B-17F visiting Boeing Field […]
JUNE 18, 2013 · 1:19 PM Four Kirkland students will participate in one of the four Washington Aerospace Scholars summer residency sessions held in June and July at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Washington Aerospace Scholars is a competitive educational program, based at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, for high school juniors from across Washington […]
Jun 3, 2013, 5:36pm PDT The 83-foot Christine K, owned by Jim and Christine Warjone, is a classic Monk McQueen wooden boat. The space aboard is estimated at more than 2,000 square feet. Patti Payne Columnist-Puget Sound Business Journal Email | Twitter With interest rates low and homes selling more quickly than they have in a long time, […]
By Clara Moskowitz Published May 30, 2013 Space.com A commercial asteroid-mining company aiming to launch a crowdfunded space telescope raised more than $200,000 on the first day of its campaign. Planetary Resources, a private venture aiming to mine near-Earth space rocks for water, minerals and other resources, announced Wednesday that it would build and launch […]
BY JOSH KERNS on May 29, 2013 @ 2:02 pm Updated: 2:35 pm – 5/29/13 ) Planetary Resources announced the Kickstarter campaign at a launch event Wednesday at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. A Bellevue company that wants to mine precious metals from asteroids is hoping a new crowdfunding campaign will help pay for an ambitious new space telescope. The company’s founders say the […]
SEATTLE: The B-17 bomber, a plane that helped the United States win World War II, was in the Seattle area this weekend, and not just on display. For a price, people also get to soar on the vintage aircraft. The B-17 was at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field. If you missed it, it […]
Turner’s Seattle office is only one of two business units out of Turner Construction’s network of 46 offices across the country to pilot the Building LIFE (Living Injury Free Everyday) program. Goddard spearheaded the Building LIFE program on his projects, taking on the challenge to improve safety culture by including pre-planned safety, engaging the workforce […]
Posted by: Dean Rutz Siku, one of three resident harbor seals at the Seattle Aquarium, wanted to join the construction-worker portrait in the new habitat that she and two companions will occupy. The new habitat opens to the public June 1. Turner construction workers Baird Lehman, left, Aaron “Rambo” Weston, Robb Rankin and Ian Hamm pose […]
By: Plain Dealer business staff on May 18, 2013 at 6:00 AM, updated May 18, 2013 at 6:04 AM Email HONORS Turner Construction Co.’s Ohio region led the company nationally in 2012 in partnering with minority- and women-owned business enterprises. A total of $206 million in contracts was awarded to such firms in 2012 in Ohio, which equates […]
MAY 17, 2013: UPDATED 7:56 AM COURTESY PHOTO Overlake Hospital will occupy floors 5 and 6 of the medical pavilion. Overlake Hospital Medical Center has signed a lease for two floors of Overlake Medical Pavilion, a specialty medical office building located on the Hospital’s campus along 116th Street Northeast. Approximately 200 hospital staff members will […]