Monthly Archives: June 2016

Sauk Prairie Airport welcomes flight enthusiasts

If it flies, hovers or whirs through the air, it will be at the Sauk Prairie Airport Fly-In on June 11 in Prairie du Sac. The event will include airplane and helicopter rides, drone demonstrations and tours of the Vietnam … Continue reading

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Tuscaloosa factory will make dome building parts, will double as storm shelter

New Age Dome Construction will begin construction of a wooden dome factory in Tuscaloosa this week, where residential, commercial and storm shelter dome building components will be made. Company owner John Johnson said he expects the building to be completed … Continue reading

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Airport festival to feature pair of WWII planes

A pair of World War II airplanes representing types that were adversaries in the South Pacific and later became important props in TV shows and movies will headline the attractions next weekend at the annual Indiana County/Jimmy Stewart Airport Festival. … Continue reading

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Airbus presents 3D-printed mini aircraft

The world’s first 3D-printed aircraft THOR on display in the Airbus booth at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Schoenefeld near Berlin, on 1 June, 2016 Dwarfed by huge jets all around, the mini-plane Thor was nonetheless an eye-catcher at the … Continue reading

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‘Warbirds’ event is plane club’s fundraiser; flying is its passion

Members of the Mid Arkansas Radio Control Society sat chatting with one another Saturday as they watched miniature versions of airplanes from World War I and World War II buzzing through the clear blue sky. Enlarge Tim Hawkins of Benton … Continue reading

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It’s summer in Arizona. Time to come inside

In northern climes, dead leaves, gardeners bringing their plants inside and children praying for school closures all signal one thing: Winter is blowing in hard and mean. Here in Arizona, they mark something else. It’s not winter. It’s summer. The … Continue reading

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Students get out-of-this-world experience at Challenger Learning Center – Belleville News

The flight vests were one-size-fits-all. The view outside the spacecraft during launch was a video of a rocket taking off. But to fourth-graders from Greenville and Sorento, it was the beginning of an out-of-this-world mission they had spent a month … Continue reading

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