Posted: Sunday, September 28, 2014 7:12 pm
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Updated: 7:46 pm, Sun Sep 28, 2014.
Midland Reporter-Telegram
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The wild blue yonder was the playground for at least 30 youths who came out for the Flyro Gyro event Sept. 27 at the Elyria Airport, 10800 Middle Ave., Carlisle Township. The Discover Aviation Center and Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1252 provide Young Eagle free rides for youths age 8 to 17, and a lunch with hot dogs and gyros upon their return.
I dont know if you could have a prettier day to fly, said Don Johnson of LaGrange. He waited on the ground with his grandson, Flynn Yoho, 3, while his other grandson, Zander Yoho, 8, took a ride in pilot Paul Hanchecks 1946 Luscombe 8-E airplane. The plane was marketed as the first all-metal civilian aircraft built after World War II.
The goal is just to make people interested in aviation because our numbers are dwindling, said Hancheck, a Cleveland resident who flies out of Columbia Station.
We just want to show people airplanes are fun and play safe and can be good for the community, he said.
Flying can be an expensive hobby and around the country, smaller airports are closing as housing subdivisions and stores develop around them, Hancheck said.
With the Young Eagles program we want to teach people at a young
Article source: http://www.morningjournal.com/general-news/20140927/local-youths-take-to-skies-with-elyria-flyro-gyro-event
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Soon after Mary-Carson and Josh Stiff got married last year, they began talking about buying a house.
Josh, 30, wanted to live in Norfolk to be near his law office. Mary-Carson, 28, wasn’t so sure. Sea level rise and the chronic flooding that plagues the city worried her.
“My concern was, it might not be a wise place to invest in general,” she said.
Her worry was grounded in her work. A consultant at the College of William Mary Law School’s Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic who now works part time as policy director for the local environmental group Wetlands Watch, Mary-Carson has been immersed in sea level rise policy work for months. She’s well-acquainted with the piles of studies, reports and charts that show Norfolk is one of the country’s most vulnerable cities.
Her determination to avoid living near the water surprised her a little. She grew up on a lake in Suffolk, a proud, water-loving Tidewater native.
“I absolutely thought my dream home would be on the water,” she said. “But knowing what I now know, my entire perception has changed. I think everyone in Hampton Roads has rose-colored glasses when it comes to a picturesque home on the waterfront, with a dock and a boat and a kayak. That life is sweet and has a place in my heart, but it’s no longer what I dream about.”
The newlyweds forged a compromise. They would search for a home in Norfolk to be near
Article source: http://hamptonroads.com/2014/09/norfolk-sea-level-rise-takes-shine-waterfront-homes
On 23 June, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published its interpretation of the “Special Rule for Model Aircraft,” which disgruntled quite of few people with an interest in flying model planes and helicopters. Many of those upset left critical feedback on the FAA’s website, but last week three groups went further and formally took legal action.
Article source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/aerial-robots/faa-faces-legal-action-on-its-rules-for-model-aircraft
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HALETHROPE, Md. (WJZ)—Health professionals will tell you it’s a good thing to not only eat right, exercise, but also to have a hobby or two.
Mike Schuh introduces us to a group in Halethorpe who has listened to that advice.
Baltimore’s largest celebration of remote control airplanes is back for another weekend of high-flying fun.
The free event features local hobbyists zipping, dipping and diving their remote control planes, helicopters and jets hundreds of feet in the air.
Digger Drury’s plane has a real-life, tiny, tiny jet engine that can fit in your hand and a top speed of 200 miles an hour. You could buy a used
Article source: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/09/26/model-plane-hobbyists-will-zip-dip-dive-at-baltimores-largest-fly-in/
About drones? I’m glad you asked. 1956, the year when the Rattlesnake Patrol of the Boy Scouts of America got involved with drones. Honest, it wasn’t our fault. Not that we killed anyone with our drone but we did take out an enemy position. OK, so only we saw that barn as the enemy. Not that this was our original intent, but war is like that, collateral damage. Downside being, explain that to your dad.
model airplanes were quite the rage when I was a kid. Plastic models with all of 1,634 parts to include decals and bomb bay doors that ominously opened. Least that was the original idea, but only if you applied the glue precisely. Model glue at the time was Testors in a tube that turned the bedroom workshop into an anesthesia mask. A cyanoacrylate solvent when applied in excess reshaped what was supposed to be an elevator into something that didn’t move. With dozens of models to my credit, my mom thought I was hooked on model making. It was probably the glue.
These models covered every aircraft type from WWI-era Fokkers and Nieuports to the heaps of WWII bombers and fighters. Every self-respecting kid had in his bedroom a swarm of fighters and menacing bombers hanging on monofilament. To the end that bedroom was a miniature rendition of the Battle of Britain with Messerschmitts and Spitfires duking it out. To the consequence that a kid took up kinship with
Article source: http://www.ppulse.com/Articles-Essays-c-2014-09-24-117889.114136-Drone-Strike.html
Air show enthusiasts who may have missed the Blue Angels during the Star-Spangled Spectacular two weeks ago have another chance to see some great flying this weekend — just on a smaller scale.
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The Charm City Memorial Fly-In at the Southwest Area Park in Lansdowne offers up flight demonstrations by jets, World War II-era planes, helicopters and others in an air show for model aviators.
“We fly planes of all shapes and sizes, from 12-inch wingspans to 10-foot wingspans,” said aviation enthusiast Bob Pollokoff, one of the Southwest Area Park Modelers.
The modelers have been maintaining the county-owned property for 25 years. It looks like a real airstrip, complete with windsock and runway and pilots perfecting their skills.
“You’re always learning something new. I’m always trying to perfect this little front flip,” said flight enthusiast Justin Reel. “I’ve always been into flying — kites, rubber-powered airplanes, gliders, whatever. This is sort of the ultimate of that without getting in a real plane.”
Some of the models are really complex.
“That one can do flips, spins, fly inverted. It’s got about an eight-horsepower electric motor in it, 12-cell battery. It’s got about 50 volts running through that thing,” said Zach Bury, who got into sport flying because of his dad.
However, enthusiast Max Moxey said he’s the one who gave his dad the bug, and the two built a World War II model plane together.
“Our local hobby shop, we went
Article source: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/air-show-highlights-model-aircraft-lets-visitors-fly-them/28266004
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