Model Airplanes

Employees come to work to do their jobs. We aren’t usually aware of workplace culture, even over a span of years.

We learn culture from co-workers and managers when they make decisions and demonstrate problem-solving skills. Leadership messages affect thousands of decisions that add up to success or failure of the organization.

For many years, Boeing competed with Airbus and other producers for airline customers based on performance of its products. As a recent news report put it, Boeing now competes for investors with Exxon and Apple.

Boeing rose to the top of the airplane business as an engineering company, focused on performance of its products. Boeing made bold decisions that “bet the company” and prevailed over competitors.

In the ’90s, Boeing business culture turned to employee engagement, process improvement and productivity — adopting the “quality” business culture that made Japanese manufacturers formidable competitors.

In the late ’90s, Boeing’s business culture shifted again, putting cost-cutting and shareholder interests first.

Some business cultures are well-suited to commodity-like products but are a bad fit with performance-driven products.

Ask a financial analyst, “Are airplanes commodity-like or performance-driven?”

Business instinct is to cast the question as a market transaction. Airline customers worry about price, delivery dates, training costs, spares, maintenance and other factors, but, overall, those considerations come out very close in the end. The last major innovation in air travel was the jet engine in the 1950s. A business analyst would say the airplane business is “mature,” the products are standardized, innovation is slow, so airplanes are commodity-like.

Article source: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/what-will-it-be-boeing-great-airplanes-that-generate-cash-flow-or-great-cash-flow-period/

BLACK RIVER, NY — Freeman John Fohr, 76, of 29758 Burnup Road, Black River, passed away July 1, 2019, at the home of his daughter and son-in-law in Henderson where he was under the care of Hospice of Jefferson County.

Bor Sept. 10, 1942, in Philipsburg, NJ, son of Freeman W. and Mary (Kroshinski) Fohr, he graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1961. 

Following school he entered the US Army on March 20, 1964, in Wilkes Barre, PA, and served during the Vietnam War. He was honorably discharged on March 17, 1967, as SGT. 

He then served with the Army National Guard where he was a heavy equipment operator, retiring in 2002. He then went on to work for FX Caprara as a driver for the next twenty years, retiring in 2018.

He was a member of the Watertown and Sackets Harbor Sportsman Club, National Rifle Association, enjoyed shooting, flying model airplanes, and taking long drives all over the North Country.

Among his survivors are his beloved daughter and her husband, Stacey L. and Elmer R. Parish Jr., Henderson, four loving grandchildren, Emily, Megan, Brian and Jacob, and friend of many years, Jim Butler and his companion, Laverne Hughes, LaFargeville.

Besides his parents his son Brian Scott Fohr died at birth in 1967.

Arrangements are with the Bruce Funeral Home, Black River. 

A graveside service with military honors will he held 11 a.m. Monday, July 8, in Black River Cemetery.

Donations may be made to Hospice of Jefferson

Article source: https://www.newzjunky.com/freeman-j-fohr-76-black-river-2/

CARLISLE TWP. — When Katelyn Arnemann talks about her father, Joseph Begany, she remembers him as adventurous, able to make anything, and above all else, a great dad.

She said her father was a natural inventor and used his skills to make all sorts of amazing things. When Arnemann didn’t make the club volleyball team, his creative drive solved the problem.

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“He made his own volleyball league so that I could be on a team,” she said. “He created an entire volleyball league and then he ran it.”

Begany, 63, died Sunday afternoon after crashing his plane near Elyria Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

Arnemann said her father always had been interested in flying, and that buying his own small plane 10 years ago was a dream come true.

“He looked forward to every weekend,” Arnemann said. “He would talk about when he could fly. His plane was down for a while and he would just be waiting. It was raining a lot. And he would just be waiting for when he could get it back out there.”

Arnemann said Begany was a sailor before he was a pilot. Sailing since his mid-20s, he sold his Highlander sailboat to buy his plane.

“My whole life he’s been interested in planes,” she said. “This is like his dream to own this little plane.”

Her father, a NASA architect, would fly near cities and admire their skylines, often taking photos and videos, she said. She said once when she flew with her father, he used

Article source: http://www.chroniclet.com/Local-News/2019/07/03/39-My-whole-life-he-39-s-been-interested-in-planes-39-Daughter-recalls-crash-victim.html

At 11:35 a.m., the flag over the Petaluma Municipal Airport is flapping vigorously against the windy and bright, cloud-strewn late-morning sky. In the distance, a single plane slowly lifts off from the runway, the Sonoma Mountains making an impressive backdrop to the small aircraft’s lonely journey. Inside the facility’s small office, Airport Manager Joshua McKeighan has just finished up a conversation with Dan St. John, Director of Petaluma Public Works.

In the office is a compact, computerized weather station and a radio, which the small Petaluma facility uses in lieu of a control tower. Pilots who are taking off or approaching for a landing must self-report, and McKeighan keeps an eye on all of it from here.

Right on cue, a voice crackles from the radio, reciting a list of numbers and jargon that requires a bit of interpretation to understand.

“She means that airplane has just turned across Adobe and is headed back this way, and then will make a right turn to land on the runway,” McKeighan says. Pointing through the large window overlooking the field, he adds, “We have a racetrack pattern around the airport, it goes up that way, out past Adobe, then back in away from the houses.”

In the public meeting room just outside McKeighan’s office, a tall display case features rows of intricate model airplanes, created by Gerald Kyne and Herb Johnson. There are numerous planes of one kind or another — more models, plus photos and paintings — exhibited all around

Article source: https://www.petaluma360.com/entertainment/9761891-181/a-windy-noon-at-petalumas

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