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Article source: https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/local-company-helps-with-nasa-mars-helicopter-project/article_722741c2-7747-52e8-bec6-57e333101ec0.html
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.
Article source: https://www.wwnytv.com/2019/07/03/freeman-john-fohr-black-river/
MACOMB — On Saturday evening, the buzz of propellers and colorful model airplanes filled the sky as the Macomb RC Flyers met up at Veterans Park to celebrate the theme of this year’s Heritage Days: aviation in McDonough County.
The Macomb RC Flyers are a group of remote control model airplane enthusiasts that get together to share their love of the hobby and fly their planes together.
Originally, members of the Heritage Days Committee had asked the group to fly their planes during the parade on Saturday morning. According to Lyle Payne, a member of the group, flying in such crowded areas is against Federal Aviation Administration rules and they respectfully declined. Instead, the flyers gathered in the park and invited individuals to come out and watch the airplanes in action.
While some of the RC airplanes are purchased already assembled, many flyers choose to either make their airplanes from printable blueprints or to improvise their own designs using materials such as foam board, hot glue, and dowel rods. By using these types of materials, costs are kept to a minimum and the airplanes are easier to repair after a hard crash.
“With the advent of these foam airplanes that are cheap, easy to build, easy to fly, and don’t cost much when you crash, I think [the group] has taken off pretty good — no pun intended,” said Payne.
According to Payne, he had handcrafted one of his airplanes using a trial and error method
Article source: https://www.aledotimesrecord.com/news/20190702/macomb-rc-flyers-celebrate-aviation-on-model-sized-scale
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Though it’s easy to poke fun at Elon Musk’s online shenanigans, there’s no denying that he was able to revolutionize the auto industry in a relatively short period of time. Thanks to the initial success of the Model S, Tesla was able to prove that electric cars didn’t have to be clunky eyesores. What’s more, the popularity of the Model S — along with the Model Y and the Model 3 — definitively proved that demand for EVs was far greater than anyone could have anticipated even a few years ago.
Tesla’s obsession with all things electric, of course, extends far beyond traditional four-door sedans, an assertion bolstered by Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity and the company’s plans to roll out an electric semi-truck and pickup truck in the near future.
Beyond that, is it perhaps possible that Tesla will one day leverage its EV expertise to develop an airplane? It certainly sounds far-fetched, but as evidenced by Musk’s work with The Boring Company, it’s practically impossible to anticipate what Musk will get into next. That said, someone asked Musk via Twitter a few days ago about whether an electric plane would be feasible.
“Yes,” Musk responded, “but still a bit too limited on range. That will change in coming years as battery energy density improves.”
“Jet A (kerosene) has much higher energy density than Li-ion, but electric motors weigh much less convert stored energy to motion better than combustion engines,” Musk later added. Lastly, Musk noted that he anticipates
Article source: https://nypost.com/2019/07/02/elon-musk-thinks-electric-planes-will-be-more-practical-in-5-years/
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A Cessna C-182 airplane headed to Pensacola from Sugarland, Texas, three years ago was cruising at 7,300 feet, some 10 miles south of Mobile Downtown Airport.
Even at an altitude of almost a mile and a half, the plane was outside the reach of drones. The pilot that May afternoon reported seeing a drone pass about 100 feet in front of the aircraft. According to a report maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration, the pilot described the small, unmanned aircraft as red on top and dark on the bottom.
It looked like a “blob,” according to the pilot’s report.
Until a few years ago, drones for civilian use were rare. But as the price has come down, they quickly have proliferated for both commercial and recreational use. More than a million recreational drones have been registered with the FAA, and the agency expects that to grow to 3 million by 2022.
Drone encounters with aircraft also are on the rise. An FAA database lists 8,026 incidents since November 2014. The number has jumped every year, reaching 2,308 in 2018, a 36 percent increase since 2015.
FAA records show 54 such close calls in Alabama since 2015, including nine in the Mobile area.
“It’s some very elaborate drones that are out there, and very expensive drones, that have that capability,” said Chris Curry, the president of the Mobile Airport Authority. “But again, I think they only improve on that technology over time.”
Researchers at the University of Dayton Research Institute last year demonstrated how
Article source: https://www.fox10tv.com/news/drone-dangers-close-calls-with-airplanes-on-the-rise/article_99a0f1a0-9c51-11e9-97e7-3b039671fd5e.html
A P.E.I. connection that went undiscovered for decades is being celebrated by two Island families, who say thanks to the work of some historians in Germany, they feel much closer to loved ones lost in Second World War.
“He was a story before,” said Angela Johnston-Villard, the niece of Cyril Sutherland, a Canadian soldier who died in 1944. He was a passenger on a Royal Air Force Douglas C-47 plane that was shot down by the Germans.
“He was in our hearts but not like this. This has brought him to life.”
Johnston-Villard said for decades, very few details were known about her uncle’s death. Other than the fact he was 37 when he was killed and that he initially wasn’t assigned to that mission, but volunteered to go in place of a younger soldier who had a family.
Now she knows much more. including the fact that her uncle was not the only Islander on the plane. That’s all thanks to a man in Germany who is part of a historical research group that unearths old Second World War plane wreckage.
Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-plane-crash-families-brought-together-1.5192298
