Model Airplanes

There’s gold in them blox
When Debbie Sterling arrived at Stanford’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, she looked around and wondered where the rest of the women were. When she graduated — not the only woman in her class, but close to it — she decided to do something to reach young girls before they get shunted away from science. But, first, she did a lot of research into how children develop.

“Girls and boys are different — obviously,” says Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox. “Girls develop verbal skills earlier and enjoy narrative-based role playing. Nurturing is a big thing for them. If you want to teach them spatial reasoning, you have to tell them why they’re building something and who they’re doing it for.”

So Sterling created a series of stories about a hero named Goldie, an inventor who must build things in order to help others. Girls read the story and build the devices along with Goldie, using the pastel-colored building pieces included in each $20 to $30 kit. Along the way, the 4- to 9-year-olds learn the basics of force, friction, gears, levers, and more. Future narratives will incorporate lessons on circuits and coding.

The GoldieBlox site features a half-dozen adorable videos of these inventions in action, like this spinning machine created by 7-year-old Sabrina.

Sterling says she wants to “disrupt the pink aisle in toy stores” — the notion that girls’ toys can only be about princesses and pop stars.

One reason, Sterling says, is that the world

Article source: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/these-3-high-tech-toys-help-teach-girls-to-stick-with-94203491069.html

By Dalga Khatinoglu

There may be little ones in Iran, the “Russian plane” doesn’t evoke the crash and death in their minds.

Based on the Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) of Iran, some 71 passenger planes have crashed in the country since 1979, leading to 1817 deaths, a half of them were killed as a result of Russian aircraft accidents.

Today, on August 10, an Antonov model aircraft crashed in Tehran, leaving 39 dead.

The Ukrainian Antonov aircraft is assembled in Iran, called IrAn-140 under the license issued by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). This aircraft is designed by the Ukrainian Antonov ASTC bureau as the successor for the Soviet An-24.

The CAO statistics does not include crashes of jet fighters and deaths of non-passengers. Also, it does not include the death of 17 persons as a result of an Antonov crash in Kerman in November 1993.

Generally, 833 Iranians have been killed as a result of crashes of Russian planes, such as Ilyushin (298 persons), Tupolev (495 persons), Antonov (59 persons), and Yakovlev (30 persons) from 1979 to 2011.

Taking into account 39 persons who died on August 10, the number of Iranians who have been killed as a result of crashes of Russian planes reached 880, which is about half of total fatalities over the past 35 years.

After the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 due to Iran Hostage Crisis (taking hostage of 52 American diplomats by Iran in 1979), Tehran faced U.S. sanctions, including a ban on selling of plane parts.

Article source: http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2301568.html

Sixteen years after conception, a decade since its first flight and $1.4 billion dollars later, the Eclipse 500 finally is maturing into a full-fledged business jet, albeit the tiniest in current production. The world’s first VLJ was endowed with promising but untested DNA. As a result, it went through one of the most difficult and time-consuming development cycles in the history of business aircraft.

Notwithstanding such setbacks, Eclipse still managed to book more than 2,000 orders, as many as 2,600 at one time. After several fits and starts, Eclipse Aviation managed to deliver 260+ aircraft from late 2005 to mid-2008, although they were far from full-mission capable. Buyers were hopeful that Eclipse would be able to deliver promised modifications and improvements to fix the glitches, which would bring up its aircraft to contract specifications.

Customers’ hopes were vanquished when the Great Recession of 2008

Article source: http://aviationweek.com/business-aviation/pilot-report-eclipse-550

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