Model Airplanes

Daniel Fougner as seen in a Facebook photo. Additional images and a video below.The two women shot to death at the French Quarter apartments weren’t the only homicide victims in the metro area this week. Also slain was Robert Goldsberry, a sixty-year-old who was gunned down in the parking lot of a South Parker Road Walmart. The man being held for the crime is Daniel Fougner, who was reportedly homeless — although that wasn’t always the case, as his strangely poignant Facebook page shows. Photos, a video and details below.

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Crime scene images from CBS4 coverage.At 8:44 p.m. on Monday, October 27, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to the parking lot of a Walmart located at 1412 South Parker Road.

The report: shots fired.

There, the deputies found a man later identified as Goldsberry lying face down. He’s said to have been hit by several gunshots. He was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A man was quickly taken into custody, but he was initially characterized as a person of interest rather than a suspect. Only yesterday was it announced that Fougner had been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Although reports call Fougner a transient, his Facebook page offers a view of a

Article source: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2014/10/daniel_fougner_murder_robert_goldsberry_walmart.php

Third-grade students from Pioneer School met with veterans to interview them about their military experiences during breakfast in the school’s cafeteria on Oct. 22.

This year, a new addition was added to the annual event. After students completed interviews, they hurried to the corner of the cafeteria where they attempted to land a model plane onto a replica aircraft carrier by guiding the plane down a string.

Navy veteran Jim Ricke and Preston Gentry spent two weeks creating the model.

“I’m retired, so I didn’t work too hard on it,” Ricke joked.

Ricke got the idea after seeing a similar model, and he decided that it would be a perfect fit for the Pioneer Schools veterans’ curriculum, he said.

The veterans’ breakfast is part of veterans’ curriculum for third-graders at Pioneer School.

The replica was modeled after the aircraft carrier the USS Yorktown, which is one of four ships Ricke served on, he said.

Ricke learned to fly after he left the Navy, but spent time in naval planes as a passenger.

“The fun part of the carrier is taking off (in airplanes),” Ricke said.

Student Devon Keene tried his hand at landing the plane with varying success.

“The last time I did it I crashed into the back of the ship,” Devon said. “It was fun, and I learned that all airplanes in the Navy have hooks on the bottom of them.”

Third graders Rayanna Morris and Rory Clevenger also tried several times to land the plane.

Earlier in the day, Rayanna and Rory interviewed veteran Wade Parrish. They asked him

Article source: http://lebanon-express.com/news/local/students-learn-about-veterans-through-interviews-aircraft-carrier-replica/article_02fe052e-5ed2-11e4-9f47-83c0f45726a7.html

When James William Hall’s sister died in 1952, the 12-year-old found refuge in what would become a lifelong passion: control line model airplanes.

Kathy Hines, his only child, said Frances May Hall was James’ only sibling.

“His parents went into something of a funk,” Hines said. “She died in October, and they didn’t celebrate Christmas that year or any year after.”

A man by the name of Thomas James took young James Hall — a Suffolk native who died Oct. 23 at age 75 from cancer of the esophagus — under his wing.

James was an avid practitioner of control-line model planes, in which twin lines are used to control the aircraft, and a member of different clubs, Hines recalled.

Pretty soon, Hall was hooked.

“He could do figure-8’s and loops and fly inverted — stuff like that,” Hines said of her father.

It’s a type of model plane killed off by radio-controlled technology, but Hines says a Chesapeake club still practices the art.

During her girlhood, her dad worked for a gas company located off Holland Road behind present-day Roy and Ricky’s Catering, Hines said.

In a big field nearby, the model plane club Hall belonged to would meet every Sunday afternoon.

“Dads would fly, kids would run around and moms would chat,” Hines said.

During “combat competitions,” she said, two or three guys would attach crepe paper to the tails of their planes, and the winner was the first to cut a streamer.

“That was my father’s favorite part,” Hines said. “He was meticulous at putting them together and painting

Article source: http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2014/10/29/daughter-recalls-dads-passion-for-planes/