Model Airplanes

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing Business Jets (NYSE: BA) today announced it is launching the BBJ 777X, a new Boeing Business Jet model that can fly more than half way around the world without stopping, farther than any business jet ever built.

“Our most exclusive customers want to travel with the best space and comfort and fly directly to their destination. The new BBJ 777X will be able to do this like no other airplane before it, redefining ultra-long range VIP travel,” said Greg Laxton, head of Boeing Business Jets, at the bi-annual Middle East Business Aviation Association Show (MEBAA).

Customers can choose between two models: the BBJ 777-8 and BBJ 777-9. The BBJ 777-8 offers the longest range of 11,645 nautical miles (21,570 km) and a spacious 3,256 sq. ft. (302.5 sq m) cabin.

The BBJ 777-9 provides an even larger cabin measuring 3,689 sq. ft. (342.7 sq m), while still offering ultra-long range of 11,000 nautical miles (20,370 km). This model opens up almost unlimited interior design options to ensure ultimate comfort for long distance travel.

To demonstrate the versatility of the airplane’s spacious cabin, BBJ unveiled interior concepts from three leading design firms: Greenpoint Technologies, Jet Aviation, and Unique Aircraft Design. Each concept shows how the BBJ 777X can be transformed to suit the tastes of any VIP customer.

The strength of the BBJ fleet of airplanes was highlighted at the air show as Boeing announced it recently booked another order for

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He was hoping to find a rare baseball card or maybe some $100 bills.

Instead, Keith Moser found hundreds of crumpled newspapers from 1949 and 1950 stuffed behind the drywall in his Everett home.

Moser called the newsroom, excited about his discovery of epic old-news proportion.

“I have a 25-foot wall full of Everett Heralds,” he said.

What’s up with that?

For Moser, 69, an avid newspaper reader, it was quite a score, though not one he can cash in on.

“I don’t think they are worth much,” he said.

Worth a story, for sure.

“Would you like red snapper for 29 cents a pound? Fresh cooked crabs, 39 cents each?” he said, reading supermarket prices from the year he was born.

Even more jarring: The illustration of Santa merrily smoking a cigarette in a colorful ad for lighters.

The newspapers were on the outer wall of the garage and bedrooms, and not doing much to keep the place warm.

“We knew there wasn’t much insulation,” said his wife, Anita.

Maybe so, but the fake insulation was real information, served up just the way Moser likes it.

“I still believe in newspapers,” Moser said. “The tactile feel of it, to be able to open the pages up, fold them in half … listen to the rustle of the paper. It’s just not quite the same holding a laptop in the bathroom. Laptops are cold.”

He’s skeptical of digital news.

Old newspapers were used as insulation between the studs in Keith Moser’s Everett home. (Andy Bronson / The Herald)

“Lot of people

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HARTSELLE — When Bob Jaques of Hartselle heard Nov. 30 that President George H.W. Bush had died, he said his memory immediately flashed back to March 25, 1993, in Houston.

Jaques, the former general manager of Young Door Co., said he was in Texas for a millwork trade convention where Bush was the keynote speaker.

“When he died, it made me think of the time I met him in Houston and what a privilege that was, even though we only talked a few minutes,” said Jaques, 78, who has lived in Hartselle since 1973. “He was very cordial, very down to Earth. He seemed very interested in what we were doing at the convention.”

Jaques said he took the 1987 book “Looking Forward” written by Bush and co-author Victor Gold to the convention with him.

“He came to the exhibit hall near our booth, and I walked up to him, and we started talking,” Jaques said. “He very graciously signed my book. . . . I had no idea our photo was being taken.”

He has the photo and pen that Bush signed the book with framed in his Hartselle home.

A few years after meeting Bush in Houston, Jaques’ love for aviation connected him again with the nation’s 41st president.

“I’m an aviation historian and a Navy veteran,” he said. “Bush was in the Navy in World War II. I commissioned an aviation artist friend of mine (Ray Waddey of Tennessee) to do a painting of Bush’s TBM (torpedo bomber). I wanted a

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