Model Airplanes

Newly obtained footage of pilot Amelia Earhart on a test flight could shed light on what happened when she disappeared in 1937, says the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), a group devoted to searching for the truth about the famous aviatrix.

TIGHAR spent 10 years in negotiations to get hold of the 16 mm film, which shows Earhart’s Lockheed Electra taking off from Papua New Guinea on a short test flight on July 1, 1937, and the refueling operation afterward.

The pit stop shortly preceded the then 39-year-old and her navigator, Fred Noonan, taking off for the island of Howland in their final stretch of circumnavigating the globe. They never arrived on Howland, and their disappearance has obsessed the world ever since.

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The key to the new theory is an aluminum patch that was added to the fuselage of her plane, the Lockheed Model 10-E Electra. The theory is that a piece of metal that washed up on Nikumaroro island in the western Pacific in 1991 is the same metal patch used on Earhart’s plane, placing her in that area.

The island, previously called Gardner Island, was where human bones were found in 1940. This strengthens the belief that these could possibly be the remains of Earhart.

The patch measures 19 by 23 inches and has five parallel lines of rivet holes on it. One image in the footage shows the patch “from a closer distance than any photo we have yet seen” TIGHAR said, adding “the patch was

Article source: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/02/22/discovered-footage-of-amelia/

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.middletowntranscript.com/news/20190220/parting-with-his-stuff-warehouse-of-collectibles-stuns-imagination

What is it? This RC plane is definitely something completely different in this list of 3D printed RC planes. It has a jet engine! This jet is almost completely 3D printed, including the EDF unit and landing gear. It has length of 1,858.50 mm, wingspan of 1,451 mm and weights 7.5 kg. This mean machine flies like the real thing!

Who created it? Tahustvedt

Who printed it? Tahustvedt 3D printed the larger parts of this plane on a JGAurora A5 with TMC2100 stepper drivers and the smaller parts on a Wanhao Duplicator i3. A print area of 300 × 300 mm is required for printing the largest parts. However, many parts fit on a 200 × 200 bed, or less. Good quality PLA should be used for the entire model. Main tires, nose tire, fan rubber and fan seals need to be 3D printed from TPU or other rubber like filaments.

Where to find it? Cults

Article source: https://all3dp.com/2/3d-printed-rc-plane-best-curated-models/