Model Airplanes

A: I did read it, I thought it was a bit of a stretch and I don’t see any serious problem coming up. First, I think there there will be an evening out of talent and the disparity will be greater than some think and, since you brought up the backcourt, they found a good mix of time for Lowry, Vasquez, DeRozan, Ross and Salmons a year ago, substitute Williams for Salmons and why can’t it work? Same in the frontcourt, where I think if James Johnson emerges as a contributor – and right now I am entirely dubious that he will – there’s room for him, Amir, Valanciunas and Patterson.

Article source: http://www.thestar.com/sports/doug_smiths_sports_blog/2014/10/the_regular_weekend_mailbag_as_things_get_back_to_normal.html

A long-abandoned convenience store on King Street East is being transformed into a co-operative commercial kitchen aimed at getting food startups off the ground.

It’s the latest addition to an eclectic and growing city food scene.

The Kitchen Collective is in the midst of renovating 811 King St. E. at Fairleigh to turn it into a 1,500-square-foot certified kitchen and a 500-square-foot retail space.

The

Article source: http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4921445-kitchen-co-op-baking-big-plans/

Pearson Air Museum has acquired an extremely rare 1918 DeHavilland DH-4B airplane.

Aircraft restorer Mark Smith can define just how rare this Liberty biplane restoration is: “It’s probably going to be the next-to-last one done by anybody,” he said.

If You Go

• What: Pearson Air Museum (also the temporary Fort Vancouver Visitors Center).

• Where: 1115 E. Fifth St., Vancouver.

• When: Summer hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Winter hours (Nov. 3 to

March 9, 2015): 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

• Cost: Admission is free.

Officials at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site announced Wednesday that the National Park Service has purchased the vintage aircraft from Century Aviation of East Wenatchee. The deal includes restoration, which will be a substantial task since the Pearson acquisition is being put together from pieces of several Liberty aircraft.

“It’s a mixture of original parts from 1918 and thereabouts and some parts manufactured in the 1970s by a man who was going to restore a couple of them,” said Smith, who, along with partner Karen Barrow, operates Century Aviation.

A World War I-era DeHavilland had been on his shopping list for a while, said Bob Cromwell, manager of Pearson Air Museum. When the National Park Service took over Pearson Air Museum in February 2013, many of the aviation displays and historic aircraft that had been on loan to the previous manager — Fort Vancouver National Trust — were removed by their owners.

To restock the

Article source: http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/oct/17/rare-1918-biplane-pearson-air-museum/

The Robots of Resistance

Why does new technology always seem to serve the rich and powerful? Meet the MIT visionary who kept asking that question, as long as he could get away with it.

August 2005: Willcox Playa, Arizona. The air was hot and full of wind, the ground hard and full of cracks, and an aircraft of sorts was flying directly at Josh Levinger’s chest.

It was, put mildly, irregular in composition. Its fuselage was a blue, five-gallon water cooler bottle. Its two three-liter ballast tanks once contained soda, and its aluminum propeller guard came from a bicycle. The engine originally belonged to a weed-whacker and the fabric wing overhead was designed for kite surfing. The machine’s name was Freedom Flies, and almost every part of it was borrowed or homemade.

Of the four-man team testing the airworthiness of Freedom Flies, Josh Levinger, an MIT undergrad, was one of two principle players. The other, holding a radio controller, was the device’s inventor, Chris Csikszentmihályi (pronounced CHEEK sent me HIGH), then an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab.

As a concession to the heat, Chris had traded his usual collared shirt—three or four buttons always undone—for a cotton tee. Otherwise, he looked like he always did at the Lab: three-day stubble, close-cropped hair, the high forehead of a man pushing forty. Perhaps the only uncharacteristic thing about him at that moment, as Freedom Flies’s propeller tunneled through the desert air, was that his tenor voice was silent. Had Chris been able to speak, or

Article source: http://io9.com/meet-the-man-whos-building-robots-for-political-resista-1647659294

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• By
• Eric Pfanner

Teruaki Kawai, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., with a model of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.
Eric Pfanner/The Wall Street Journal

On Saturday, Japan will show off the first commercial airliner it has developed in about half a century, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet.

The red-carpet event in Nagoya held by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. precedes the first test flight, which is scheduled for the second quarter of next year. The plane, initially offered in 76- and 88-seat versions, will compete with regional jets sold by Embraer SA of Brazil, Bombardier Inc. of Canada and a handful of smaller players, rather than the larger passenger jets made by Boeing Co. and Airbus Group NV.

Mitsubishi Aircraft is majority owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., which builds wings for Boeing’s 787 airliner, as well as making Japanese military aircraft. Other shareholders include Toyota Motor Corp. and several of Japan’s big trading companies.

In an interview, the president of Mitsubishi Aircraft, Teruaki Kawai, provided an update on the project, which has suffered from several delays, and explained the challenges it still faces. Edited excerpts:

WSJ: Why did Mitsubishi decide to make a passenger airliner?

Mr. Kawai: We have been building aircraft structures for Boeing for a long time. But in making a whole airplane, we have been limited

Article source: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/10/17/qa-mitsubishi-aircraft-ceo-on-japans-new-jet/