| Hot idea to cool down
 Imagine
getting energy from the diesel exhaust of 18-wheelers, or an environment
free of diesel or heat pollution. For most mortals, this would seem hard
to fathom—but not for Craig Christy.
A Boeing engineer based at Huntington Beach, Calif., Christy spends his
"free" time hot on the trail of a new way to cool things down. Christy
is working toward a new way to refrigerate the hundreds of thousands of
truck trailers that carry food goods and other precious essentials, crisscrossing
the world's highways day and night.
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IN GOOD COMPANY
 If
your name is going to be eternally linked with others, it's nice to be
in good company, and this is definitely good company: Neil Armstrong,
Charles Lindbergh, Wernher von Braun, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager and
the Wright Brothers.
They are just a few of the many illustrious aviation pioneers whom Frank
Piasecki recently joined as a member of the National Aviation Hall of
Fame.
Piasecki, a trailblazer in the development of helicopters, was born in
1919. He became fascinated at an early age with aviation technology, which
at the time was an exciting new field.
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