FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (KXAN) — A vintage plane is destroyed and two people are dead after a plane crashed in the parking lot of a Fredericksburg apartment complex Saturday afternoon.
A spokesperson with the Federal Aviation Administration said
Article source: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/2-dead-vintage-plane-destroyed-in-fredericksburg-crash/1603904380
Since Richard Hogan was a boy, watching military planes fly from the Air Force base not far from his home, he’s been drawing designs for new aircraft.
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But when he was 12 years old, his grandfather took him for ice cream and a frank talk.
“He said, ‘Richard, your eyes aren’t good enough’” to be a pilot. His grandfather suggested he consider airplane design, given all the sketches that occupied his time.
Hogan would go on to make a career in another field, while occasionally returning to his design hobby. Then seven years ago — when he was in his mid-50s — he decided to go all-in. He left a full-time job in facilities management to get Commuter Craft off the ground.
He’s now the man behind an unusual looking propeller plane called The Innovator, which utilizes a design that allows pilots to land at a slower, less-intimidating speed without stalling.
In a cavernous warehouse in an industrial area of Cartersville, Hogan employs about a dozen people.
“It actually began with a design I did in high school,” says Hogan, who grew up in the Fort Worth, Texas area. At the beginning, “we did a couple of radio-controlled models.”
His goal — once the airplane is fully developed and flight tested — is to sell the kit planes to pilots, who would build most of the carbon-fiber composite plane themselves at Commuter Craft’s facility over a three-week period. Then, he said, his professional aircraft builders will finish
Article source: https://www.wsbradio.com/news/national/georgia-start-developing-new-airplane/N8hy3Vtuhjlr6Yl49cAC3K/
Life’s a great trip, or at least mine has been. I don’t like blabbering touchy-feely stuff on these pages because doing so presupposes somebody is interested which I doubt is true.
But I’ve always enjoyed imagining what stories other folks have to tell about their days and years. I truly believe every person’s life story would make a good movie, regardless of how mundane their world may seem to them.
We’ve all come down the same basic tracks. I doubt many – if any – reading this column are living the life they imagined for themselves riding their individual education trains into the future, eventually stepping off into the real world.
Few of life’s roads are straight so it’s doubtful anybody’s journey has been without detours, switchbacks and course changes. Certainly, Robert Burns’ overused admonition regarding the best laid plans of mice and men often going awry applies to all of us in varying degrees.
That’s not to say variations between plans and results are good or bad; they’re simply arrival gate changes. In that personal vein, I had an early interest in science. I didn’t think of such interest as being “science” but rather simply involving something I enjoyed.
I particularly liked the thought of flying so built model airplanes. When I got the first payday from my “Washington Post” and “Times Herald” paper route I went directly to the hobby shop on Cherry Point.
I’d already done some “window shopping” so knew what I was after. I rode my bike home
Article source: https://www.jdnews.com/opinion/20181118/opinion-otis-gardner-dont-worry----in-end-it-all-adds-up
The latest episode with the not-Kowsar fighter illustrates yet again the casual dishonesty of Tehran’s propagandists. Iranian industry wanted to display the Kowsar-88 for an expo—which does appear to be a real airplane! However, the actual Kowsar-88 wasn’t ready for display this August, so Tehran simply took an old, very well-known jet fighter and claimed it was a new one, in full view of domestic and international audiences that would know better.
In February 2017 I published an article on the Iranian Saeqeh (“Thunderbolt”) fighter. Billed as Iran’s first domestically-built jet fighter to enter operational service, the Saeqeh.
(This first appeared several months ago.)
Fast forward a year and a half later and we are again greeted with headlines for yet another “100% indigenously made” fighter jet, this time a “state of the art” two-seater called the Kowsar. And yet it appears identical to an F-5F Tiger II two-seater jet.
If anything, it is far less original than the Saeqeh, which has airframe modifications including enlarged strakes and twin vertical tail stabilizers. The Kowsar doesn’t appear to have any external changes from the F-5F. How was this jet even worthy of the photo-op with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the instructor’s seat for Iranian Defense Industry Day?
It happens there really is a program to build a combat-capable Kowsar advanced jet trainer. It simply wasn’t the aircraft on display this summer.
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Camden — Manley Hibbert “Joe” Bailey Jr., 90, died Nov. 7, 2018, at his home in Lincolnville. Born Dec. 11, 1927, in Oakland, he was the son of Manley H. and Bertha (Manter) Bailey. He was a graduate of Williams High School in Oakland, and the University of Maine, where he received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture. Joe served in the Air Force for four years.
His employment included working with his father and brother at a dairy farm in Sidney and completing soil surveys for Scott Paper Co., before working 26 years as a soil conservationist for the Department of Agriculture.
On June 11, 1966, he married Lucille Tuttle in Farmington, and they moved to Camden in 1967. Joe enjoyed collecting antique tractors and building model airplanes in his spare time. He was a member of the Owls Head Transportation Museum, where he participated in annual model shows displaying items from his collection.
Joe was a member of the Chestnut Street Baptist Church in Camden, the Masonic Lodge in Sidney and Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.
Several weeks ago, Joe was excited to tour a Douglas DC-3 with floats in Greenville, a World War II vintage fixed-wing propeller-driven aircraft.
He was predeceased by his first wife, Roberta Ackley Bailey, and their infant son; his second wife, Lucille Bailey; stepson Stephen Lidstone; three brothers, Frank, Russell and Dean Bailey and two sisters, Caro Hall and Cora Cannon.
Surviving is his dear friend and companion, Edith Brown, of Camden; children Susan Lidstone and her partner, Ben
Article source: https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/manley-h-bailey-jr/1789801
Since Richard Hogan was a boy, watching military planes fly from the Air Force base not far from his home, he’s been drawing designs for new aircraft.
But when he was 12 years old, his grandfather took him for ice cream and a frank talk.
“He said, ‘Richard, your eyes aren’t good enough’” to be a pilot. His grandfather suggested he consider airplane design, given all the sketches that occupied his time.
Hogan would go on to make a career in another field, while occasionally returning to his design hobby. Then seven years ago — when he was in his mid-50s — he decided to go all-in. He left a full-time job in facilities management to get Commuter Craft off the ground.
He’s now the man behind an unusual looking propeller plane called The Innovator, which utilizes a design that allows pilots to land at a slower, less-intimidating speed without stalling.
In a cavernous warehouse in an industrial area of Cartersville, Hogan employs about a dozen people.
“It actually began with a design I did in high school,” says Hogan, who grew up in the Fort Worth, Texas area. At the beginning, “we did a couple of radio-controlled models.”
His goal — once the airplane is fully developed and flight tested — is to sell the kit planes to pilots, who would build most of the carbon-fiber composite plane themselves at Commuter Craft’s facility over a three-week period. Then, he said, his
Article source: https://www.ajc.com/business/cartersville-start-commuter-craft-developing-new-airplane/1oyktWyrlS2bYnsxCsplvN/
