Model Airplanes

“The simple idea is to provide customers what it is they tell us they want. That means space, innovative technology and comfort. All of those things are evident in this plane,” Tim Mapes, Delta’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer Tim Mapes, said at the event.

Article source: https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/delta-air-lines-has-a-brand-new-plane-that-lets-every-passenger-sit-in-a-window-seat-theres-just-1-little-catch.html

When we began what was originally scheduled to be a 20-minute interview, he told me how he came to fall in love with Maine. More than 40 minutes later, we had covered nearly an entire Jeopardy-board of subjects, ranging from model planes and ships to books, New England’s opiate problem, sobriety, bullying and a topic near to Webb’s heart – the art of storytelling.

According to Webb, it was more than 20 years ago, when he was going through what he described as a very difficult divorce, that he set out with his four youngest children (three boys and a girl) and drove to Heald Pond in Center Lovell, where his friend Danny Ferguson has a home.

“It was a refuge for me and the children to sort of get away from the bad vibes,” Webb remembered. “That’s how it started. I wrote a good piece of my book ‘Tunesmith’ there (Webb’s 1998 book ‘Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting’ is considered one of the ultimate guides for aspiring songwriters). It seems like I’ve always been working on a project in the summer in Maine, including producing Carly Simon.”

Simon’s 1997 album “Film Noir” was co-produced by Webb, who also provided vocals, piano and orchestration. The collaboration was filmed for an AMC special coinciding with the record’s release.

Last year, Webb published what he hopes was just the first installment of his memoirs, titled “The Cake and the Rain,” an absorbing chronicle of his life in and out of the music industry up to

Article source: https://www.themaineedge.com/news/cover-story/iconic-songwriter-jimmy-webb-talks-maine-music-and-more

Boeing has issued operational guidance to airlines as investigators continue to probe what happened to Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 passengers.

In a statement on Tuesday, the airline manufacturer said it had issued an “Operations Manual Bulletin” advising airline operators how to address erroneous cockpit readings.

A spokesperson for Boeing wouldn’t disclose to CNN whether the directive was issued to operators of all Boeing aircraft, or just those who fly 737 MAX 8 planes, the same model as Flight 610.

The directive points operators “to existing flight crew procedures to address circumstances where there is erroneous input from an AOA sensor,” the statement said. “Whenever appropriate, Boeing, as part of its usual processes, issues bulletins or makes recommendations regarding the operation of its aircraft.”

An AOA, or angle of attack, sensor is a vane that sits outside of the aircraft and gives pilots a visual reading of the plane’s angle of attack — or “the angle between the oncoming air or relative wind and a reference line on the airplane or wing,” according to Boeing.

“It is very important because it tells them if the plane is flying at too high angle of attack, which can lead to an aerodynamic wing stall (loss of lift),” said aviation analyst and editor-in-chief of Airlineratings.com, Geoffrey Thomas.

Boeing said that the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee had “indicated that Lion Air flight 610 experienced erroneous input from one of its AOA (angle of attack) sensors.”

Boeing is

Article source: https://wtvr.com/2018/11/07/boeing-guidance-lion-air-flight-610-deadly-crash/

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World’s first all-electric airplane racing championship.

Air Race Events, headquartered in Dubai, in partnership with the University of Nottingham, is launching Air Race E, an electric version of the Air Race 1 series.

It will be the first and only all-electric airplane racing championship with the first event scheduled for 2020.

It seems that it will be a pretty spectacular, quick, action-packed race with speeds of 400 km/h (250 mph) around a tight circuit just 1.5km end-to-end – a similar format to the sport known as ‘formula one pylon air racing’.

8 airplanes are to race directly against each other simultaneously. The University of Nottingham will develop electric versions of the existing petrol-powered Air Race 1 planes.

“A new integrated ‘plug and play’ electric motor, battery and power electronics system will be designed and retrofitted into an existing petrol-powered Air Race 1 plane in workshops at the University.The prototype race airplane will help shape the model and rules for Air Race E, which is set to launch its inaugural race

Article source: https://insideevs.com/first-ever-electric-race-airplane/