Model Airplanes

         When I was a kid, my father always used to take me to the model airplane track to see small prototypes tested. These prototypes were led by a guide, and were able to do takeoffs, stunts, flips and landings. While my father watched the show, my thoughts revolved around the importance of his presence beside me. Furthermore, the gentle manner in which he treated my mother was a great example to me of how I should treat her. His smile and his respectful and friendly demeanor were my model of how I should treat others. Whenever we made mistakes or broke family rules, his attitude of firmly showing his disappointment without physically or verbally abusing us was enough to foster learning and improvement in a positive way.
1. The reflection in the mirror
        Often, as we grow, we see in our children our own past. It’s common to hope that our successes become their successes and that our weaknesses never occur in them. With a sense of protection, we surround them with rules and trap them in our security network, sometimes even hindering their own system of self-worth and value.
2. Trust that your son will do what is right
        Whenever opportunities for a son to serve others occur, a good father should accompany him to observe his attitude and disposition. When a father has the opportunity to be alone with his son in a time of helping someone in need, it

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If you see two airplanes gliding low in the sky over a snaking creek, it may be Le Mars residents Jim Schroeder and Henry Bader spreading their wings.

Or if you own a restaurant in a nearby county, and a group of hungry pilots suddenly appears in your entryway after landing their planes, you would be serving pancakes at a flight breakfast.

The activities you witnessed are just some of the things the two are able to do in their free time using the light sport aircraft they assembled themselves.

Those are the sorts of planes people build in their living rooms, said Le Mars aircraft dealer Tom Mullally.

They are light and strong, and make human flight affordable, he said.

Parts, paint, electronics and space rental for a light aircraft can start at $17,000, with upper limits determined by the builder’s desire to customize the plane.

For these two pilots, the bells and whistles under a plane’s skin are not what draw them to aviation.

It’s the joy of flying low and slow.

READY FOR TAKEOFF

Bader’s passion for flight ignited in his native St. Libory, Neb.

He remembers watching veterinarians flying over alfalfa fields in the 1940s.

“Instead of driving a car, a lot of times they just flew to the farm places. That was so much faster for them,” he said.

Bader, 85, learned to fly shortly before he served in the Korean War.

As soldier in the US Army, he was trained to spot

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Central Kitsap Junior High students were treated to an up-close lesson in aviation last week.

Fifty students in the Aviation Classroom Experience program viewed several homebuilt aircraft being assembled, spoke with pilots and watched a little stunt flying during a field trip to Silverdale’s tiny Apex Airpark on Nov. 12.

The students broke into groups and rotated through six different sites at the airpark. The sites featured pilot Bill Swope and his helicopter kit, Ian McFall’s Van’s Aircraft RV-10 airplane, which is under construction, Dan Barry’s rebuilt 1943 army Aeronca L-3, Scott Woodbury’s Van’s RV-8 project, Roger Bailey’s Grumman Tiger, which is updated with a “glass” electronic instrument panel, and Jeff Fraisure’s turbine engine-powered plane.

At Woodbury’s stop, students checked out the unpainted, partially-completed fuselage of a Van’s RV-8 homebuilt airplane that Woodbury was assembling.

The blue-and-silver fuselage sat atop wooden blocks inside the workshop. Unfinished wings were set a few feet away from the fuselage, open at the end and revealing the inner structure of ribs and spars.

Woodbury, a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot who has flown for 40 years in numerous roles from logging to firefighting, showed the students an array of tools spread out on a table. A plane like the RV-8 consisted of a thousand small, simple pieces, he said.

“It goes together with cunning and little rivets,” Woodbury said of the two-seater craft.

“It’s a time-consuming labor of love, really,” he said.

It is the first time the class has made a field trip to the airpark said Mark Anderson, teacher for

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