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Motion Control Boom

Apogee Productions announces
the creation of GraphLite, a new highly
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and composites engineer Bruce Donellan
answered the challenge from Apogee's
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a boom with real time motion
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Sorensen took advantage of
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control

It does

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than its predecessor.
Which is saying a lot.

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