Model Airplanes

Bob Mench has been filling a building for years. Now he’s ready to sell.

Bob Mench is a guy who collects stuff – lots and lots of stuff. Unlike most people, however, he doesn’t keep it all in a spare bedroom at his Smyrna-area home. He’s collected so much he’s had to build a 5,000-square-foot warehouse to store it all.

And, unlike collections seen on reality shows such as “American Pickers,” where everything is piled on top of everything else until it looks as if it will topple over, Mench’s collectibles are neatly arranged and cataloged with many reside inside glass cases.

Although he’s got thousands of items, his passion is the Ford Thunderbird. The centerpiece of the collection is a 1990 T-Bird and T-Bird memorabilia that takes up one end of the warehouse. Mench has been known to grab just about anything having to do with the iconic car.

Suddenly, lots of extra room

A Pennsylvania native, Mench learned carpentry in trade school, graduating in 1954.

After completing school, he put his woodworking skills to use building cabinets at a Pennsylvania wood mill while also running a small, personal workshop where he created hand-crafted furniture.

Later, he went into the furniture business full time, eventually selling the firm in the late 1960s and starting a new business buying and selling Thunderbird car parts. With the sale of his woodworking business, Mench suddenly had a lot of extra room, and so his collection, which he’d started amassing years earlier, began to fill up the empty

Article source: https://www.milfordbeacon.com/news/20190220/parting-with-his-stuff-warehouse-of-collectibles-stuns-imagination

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — Four AG600 large amphibious airplanes will conduct flight tests to facilitate its certification schedule, said its developer the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Friday.

In 2019, AVIC will focus on three major aspects to push forward the AG600 project – the flight test of No.001 aircraft, the aircraft design optimization, and parts fabrication, said AVIC.

The flight test of the No.001 AG600 aircraft will be conducted to test the model’s characteristics of stalling, hydrodynamic and flight envelope extension.

Meanwhile, test pilots will also begin training for this new model.

Codenamed “Kunlong,” the AG600 is designed to be the world’s largest amphibious aircraft. This large-scale special-purpose civil aircraft is developed to assist with fighting forest fires and water rescues.

The AG600 conducted its maiden flight in December 2017 and completed its first water takeoff and landing in October 2018.

It can carry out sea rescue operations under complex meteorological conditions and can withstand two-meter-high waves. It is capable of carrying 50 people during a maritime search and rescue mission. It also provides support for China’s marine monitoring and safety patrol.

In the following design optimization of the AG600, the designing team will optimize the structure and systems to tap the potential of the large aircraft platform, according to AVIC.

Meanwhile, they will improve designs of the aircraft’s maximum take-off weight, installing pressure cabins, as well as improving the systems of firefighting and emergency rescue.

According to the plan, the parts fabrication of the No. 003 AG600 airplane will start in 2019, said AVIC.

AVIC will

Article source: http://en.brinkwire.com/news/china-to-deploy-four-ag600-massive-amphibious-plane-in-take-a-look-at-flight/

Article source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-10/airline-pollution-is-soaring-and-nobody-knows-how-to-fix-it

• Women have been unsung heroes of the worldwide workforce for centuries.
• More recently, they were vital in World War I and II, taking jobs on both sides of the Atlantic the world previously thought only men could hold such as in arms factories, steel mills, and on farms.
• Throughout the ensuing decades, they tackled many other occupations in the West like bookkeeping, switchboard operating, and eventually, stockbroking.

Around the world and throughout human history, women have always played some part in the workforce.

But women like the first female telephone operator, Emma Nutt, who took over the male-dominated job in 1878 and was immediately successful at it, paved the way for women to participate more in the western workforce, specifically.

During World War I, women in the West farmed for soldiers’ food. In World War II, they were instrumental in assembling airplane parts. And in the ’60s and ’70s, hidden figures like Mary Jackson emblazoned the trail for other women in the fields of science, mathematics, and technology.

Here are 20 vintage photos of women in the western workforce as they built their presence and fought for equality there.

Article source: https://www.thisisinsider.com/vintage-photos-women-working-workplace-feminism-2019-2