Model Airplanes

The body of a mini truck that is over 70 years old and the engine of a sea plane that stopped flying in the 1950s. These two were used by a four-member family in the US to build an extraordinary truck. The love for trucks runs in their family and once they were smitten by airplanes too, the idea for the unique truck took birth. The family waited for the dream truck not a few years but decades. And, once you see the performance of the Plymouth pickup truck powered by a radial aircraft engine, you will agree that their wait was worth it.

The Corns family

Before talking about the wonder truck, one should know the family first. Only then one will be able to understand how they came upon the crazy idea of combining a truck and an airplane. The Corns family consists of Gary Corns, wife Alice and kids Adam and Eric. After their marriage, the garage owned by Alice’s family was taken over by Gary and Alice. Their love for vehicles had prompted them to do so. They were conducting experiments with the vehicles in the garage when the 1939 Plymouth truck appeared in the scene.

Gary bought the truck for $500 in the beginning of the 80s. Though he fell for it in the first sight itself he didn’t know what to do with it. None of the spare parts of the truck were available then. For the next 30 years, it was parked in the garage unattended.

Article source: https://english.manoramaonline.com/business/autos/2019/03/15/plymouth-pickup-jet-engine.html

Leadership teams across the commercial aviation industry, including airlines, leasing companies and manufacturers, treat safety as a number one priority.

Aside from the obvious commercial reasons for such a stance there is a deep rooted moral element in executive minds too. It is simply unacceptable to operate flight equipment that risks the safe passage of men, women and children in the modern world. Period.

Such a mindset is hardwired in to the minds of senior aviation executives so the tragedy of Ethiopian Airlines ET302 last Sunday sent a shockwave through the collective management teams of the global aviation eco-system.

Not only has the event itself, causing the death of 157 people, cast a shadow across the industry’s safety record but the fact that it involved an almost new Boeing 737 Max 8 hit a particular nerve. That aircraft type was only introduced to commercial service in 2017, and it is the same airplane model operated by Lion Air of Indonesia which endured a fatal crash just last October with the loss of 189 lives.

For now, commerce and money have to step outside the door at Boeing

At times such as this regulators come into their own. It was the Chinese who correctly began grounding Max aircraft last Monday but that has spread rapidly to other jurisdictions. When all of Europe and, ultimately, North America followed suit a full-blown crisis unfolded for Boeing.

Airlines and lessors will ask regulators to give clear and unalloyed guidance forthwith.

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The F.A.A. hasn’t taken that kind of step on a fleet of aircraft since 2013, when it ordered Boeing 787s to stop flying temporarily after a problem with the plane’s battery system was identified.

The agency, which certified the latest version of Boeing’s best-selling jet as airworthy in 2017, has not taken that step with the Max 8 despite mounting questions about the plane’s safety record.

Boeing issued a statement late Monday night saying that for the past several months, in the aftermath of the crash of Lion Air Flight 610, the company has been developing a “flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer.” According to the company, it has been working with the F.A.A. to roll out the software updates across the 737 MAX fleet in the coming weeks.

Airline workers in the U.S. express concern

The Association of Flight Attendants sent a letter to the F.A.A. calling for a review of the Max 8. “We need help from the regulators when the entire world is looking at two catastrophic incidents that happened on the same aircraft type within five months of each other,” said Sara Nelson, the president of the flight attendants’ union. “Our system is so safe that these things don’t happen today. That is why people are questioning what is going on here.”

Pilots also raised questions. “We’re very

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world/boeing-737-max-air-crash-ethiopia.html