Model Airplanes

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Gonzalez (DDG 66) (left), USS Nitze (DDG 94), and USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) transit ahead of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during flight operations. Abraham Lincoln is underway conducting composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX) with Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12. The components of CSG-12 embody a “team-of-teams” concept, combining advanced surface, air and systems assets to create and sustain operational capability. US Navy photo.

ABOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, IN THE VIRGINIA CAPES OPERATING AREA – The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is underway for pre-deployment training after reaping the benefits of several high-end training opportunities in the last several months.

The Lincoln Strike Group has already seen more sophisticated operations than most going into its month-long Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), thanks to the ABE CSG combining with the Harry S. Truman CSG to form a carrier strike force for high-end training last summer. And with the addition of live, virtual and constructive (LVC) training leading up to and during COMPTUEX, strike group leadership is confident the ships and air wing will be ready to tackle anything the deployment throws at them.

“We live in a dangerous, rapidly changing and complex world, and so our nation expects our Navy to be ready. In order to be ready, we’ve got to practice, and we need to work hard and we need to train hard,” Rear Adm. John Wade, commander of Carrier Strike Group 12 and the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, told reporters Monday aboard USS

Article source: https://news.usni.org/2019/01/29/carrier-lincoln-preparing-deployment-several-high-end-training-opportunities

“How do you keep a spaceship simple?” Dan Kreigh rhetorically asks several dozen attendees of “Plane Crazy Saturday,” a monthly event for aviation fans held at the Mojave Air Space Port (MASP). The group had convened on a sweltering August afternoon in the MASP’s boardroom to discuss aircraft aesthetics, tech and design up close. Continuing with his presentation, Kreigh explains how the question was first posed twenty years ago by his now retired boss Burt Rutan — the maverick designer and founder of Scaled Composites who is known throughout the world for his radically unorthodox aerospace designs along with his signature mutton chop sideburns inspired by none other than the 1970s-era Elvis.

A soft-spoken man with a gentle easy laugh, Kreigh holds up the model of SpaceShipOne (SS1), one of Scaled’s finest achievements. The thirty-year company veteran built the scale model of the much-lauded spacecraft while working as lead structural engineer under Rutan’s tutelage. Rutan hadn’t originally asked Kreigh to build the model of SS1 but Kreigh decided to step up to his challenge. Besides, he wanted to see if Rutan’s inventive proposed re-entry system could work in miniature. So he went ahead with designing and assembling his SS1 model but, for a time, kept it under wraps.

Kreigh demonstrates to “Plane Crazy” onlookers the SS1’s signature engineering breakthrough: after flying in suborbital elevation at 100 KM (62 miles), upon re-entry the rear half of the wings “feather” as the twin-tail dramatically folds upwards seventy

Article source: https://www.linktv.org/shows/artbound/making-astronauts-in-mojave

The “Project Runway All Stars” contestants this season designed looks inspired by national heritage, corsets and even airplane parts, but in episode five the show went to the dogs — or maybe the zebras, the elephants, or the gorillas. In “On the Prowl,” the remaining 11 competitors took their inspiration from zoo animals. So who won the challenge, and who went on the endangered species list? Scroll down for our live blog with all the minute-by-minute developments as they happen.

The international contestants got off to a slow start in this all-champions edition that pits winners of the American “Runway” against winners of the show’s foreign spin-offs. In the first four weeks of competition, three challenges were won by American champs: Dmitri Sholokhov in “All Stars Goes Global,” Anthony Ryan Auld in “Top of the Class” and Irina Shabayeva in “Buckle Up!” And two of the first three eliminations were contestants from abroad.

But Christina Exie put the international all stars on the board in episode four when the Australian “Runway” champ won the “Of Corsets Fashion” challenge. Was that the start of a surge for the foreigners? There are only four other international contestants left: Cynthia Hayashi (Brazil), Django Steenbakker (Netherlands), Evan Biddell (Canada) and Juli Grbac (Australia).

Hayashi and Steenbakker were coming off of low judges’ scores for their corsets looks, so our

Article source: https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/project-runway-all-stars-recap-on-the-prowl-season-7-episode-5-news/