Category Archives: Model Airpanes

Panama City Team Dragonair takes off in a flying machine that belongs in a fantasy movie

CLOSE Jeff Elkins of Panama City designed a flying machine. Mariah Cain is its pilot. The pair’s prototype is a GoFly contest finalist. Courtesy of GoFly Prize, Tallahassee Democrat Mariah Cain and Jeff Elkins have always dreamed of flying. Not … Continue reading

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Using Photogrammetry, Divers Capture Shipwrecks Beneath Seattle Waters

Kees Beemster Leverenz Seattle is an isthmus. On the east side of the city lies freshwater Lake Washington, while on the west you’ll find the salty waters of the Puget Sound. Created when a glacier inched its way across the … Continue reading

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O-Level Reform: Lemoore Strike Fighter Squadrons Returning More Jets to Flight Line

Official U.S. Navy file photo of F/A-18E Super Hornets from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136 “Knighthawks” fly in formation during a photo exercise over the California coast. Article source: https://hanfordsentinel.com/o-level-reform-lemoore-strike-fighter-squadrons-returning-more-jets/article_09349188-8a4a-5280-81e1-03dd19035da6.html

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Many Memorial Days later, remembering a brave Murrayite

By Shaun Delliskave | [email protected] Something was unusual about the skilled Murray pilot’s descent onto the Espiritu Santo runaway, as the Marine’s TBF Avenger seemed to just drop. Lieutenant Paul Kezerian had flown in difficult situations before during World War … Continue reading

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Moschino Spring 1994 Ready-to-Wear Collection

In anticipation of the upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” we’ve digitized collections from which pieces were selected for the show or catalog. This collection, Franco Moschino’s last, was presented on October 3, 1993, at the Teatro Nazionale … Continue reading

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Bookmark: We want your stories about lending (and borrowing) books

A week or two ago I read a terrific book. (“Binstead’s Safari,” a reissue of a 1983 novel by Rachel Ingalls.) And as always happens when I finish a terrific book, I immediately inflicted it on someone. In this case, … Continue reading

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Boom or bust, Seattle is a city of big ideas

The government cut back on defense contracts. Boeing was counting on developing ­a Super Sonic Transport, the SST, but Congress killed it in 1971. Some 60,000 Boeing jobs in all were eliminated, about two-thirds of the workforce of the largest … Continue reading

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