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1978. General Motors believes it has found the golden ticket to solve the world's fuel crisis: a cheap-to-develop, naturally-aspirated V8 diesel engine. The result? One of the greatest automotive ...
Bad leaders, a complacent crew and maintenance cost-cutting by the Navy contributed to a series of engineering failures on the USS Boxer that prevented the ship from going to sea for more than one ...
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Hawaii presents one of the most demanding engineering environments in the United States. While mainland projects often follow ...
Engineering failures rarely begin with a single bad calculation. They begin when critical information doesn’t surface—an anomaly ignored, a question unasked, a hesitation swallowed because someone ...
After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...