Model Airplanes

Not long ago, Dr. Daniel Marks rented a garage at the La Costa Glen retirement community where he has lived for the past two years with his wife, Judy.

The garage isn’t for his lime-green Fiat, which he parks on the street. It’s for his nearly two dozen bicycles, a collection he downsized from a high of 50 several years ago.

The retired general practitioner has been an avid cyclist for more than 40 years, so these bikes aren’t for show. At age 78, he still pedals more than 100 miles a week and he enjoys riding them all.

For each ride, Marks chooses a different bike, depending on whether he’s planning to climb hills, speed on a flat course or take a leisurely touring trip with weighted packs. He keeps a calendar of which bike he rides when and for how many miles so that each one sets rubber to road every month or so.

“For me, cycling down the road is like being in a low-flying airplane where everything’s speeding by,” he said. “There’s so much to see and it’s a great feeling to do something under your own power.”

Marks got his first bicycle at age 7 in his native Detroit, where he said the cycling season is sharply limited by harsh weather so riding days were all the more precious.

“I loved the freedom of just getting out and riding a great distance around the block to go buy candy,” he said.

He gave up biking to play baseball in high school and

Article source: https://www.postguam.com/entertainment/lifestyle/doctor-capitalizes-on-passion-for-bikes/article_f6bc5cae-b7cc-11e8-a424-eb6987953474.html

Which has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or a funeral home? How could you solve humankind’s biggest crisis given $1 billion and a spacecraft? What is the number of new book titles published in the U.S. each year?

You probably don’t know the answers to these questions, and they don’t really have anything to do with what most people do on a day to day basis, but brain teasers like these — the kind that Google became notorious for asking its job candidates — can pop up during job interviews anyway. While they might not be of much use for understanding how well people can do their job, a new study shows that the brain teasers tell us a lot about the person who asks them.

Riddle me this!

The study, published in Applied Psychology, was carried out by Scott Highhouse of Bowling Green State University, Christopher Nye of Michigan State University, and Don Zhang of Louisiana State University. It involved 736 individuals.

Each test subject was given a list of potential interview questions which were either traditional (‘are you a good listener?’), behavioral (‘give me an example of when you made a mistake and how you corrected it.’), or a brain teaser. They were then asked which questions they were likely to use in an interview they were conducting. The subjects then took personality tests.

After accounting for factors of gender [i] and experience giving interviews, the researchers found that a

Article source: https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/

Choose the plan that’s right for you. Digital access or digital and print delivery.

Article source: https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/photogallery/WL/20180917/NEWS/917009997/PH/1

‘+
‘

‘+__tnt.truncateStr(oAsset.title.replace(/(]+))/ig,””),iTextTrun,’…’)+’

‘+
‘

‘+__tnt.truncateStr(oAsset.summary.replace(/(]+))/ig,””),iTextTrun,’…’)+’

‘+
‘

Article source: https://lmtribune.com/sunday_am/pedaling-is-his-passion-doc-with-bikes-rides-em-all/article_1cd3f623-62d7-55c3-bdd1-3133ae2b8dd9.html

DANVILLE – World War II aircraft restorer Mike Vadeboncoeur says the airplanes he and his business restores are kind of like children.

After it takes years to restore them, “off they go to their homes.”

It’s also hard to pick a favorite project, but the business’s flagship P-51 Mustang was a plane called Happy Jack’s Go Buggy. It took a top award in 2008 and was awarded the Rolls Royce Heritage Trophy at the National Aviation Heritage Invitational.

Since the early 1990s since founding Midwest Aero Restoration, Vadeboncoeur has restored almost a dozen warbirds. They’ve included Cripes a Mighty, Daddy’s Girl, Red Dog and Live Bait P-51 D Mustangs; an AT-6D Texan; and Cessna L-19A Birddog.

The award-winning business based at the Vermilion Regional Airport specializes in P-51 Mustangs, but the 52-year-old Vadeboncoeur and his staff work on other aircraft. There are only about 150 P-51 Mustangs still flying in the world, Vadeboncoeur said.

Four aircraft are being worked on now — two P-51 Mustangs from customers in Florida and the United Kingdom, a T-6 Texan from a customer in Wyoming and a German fighter Messerschmitt ME 109 from a Texas customer.

Vadeboncoeur had an early interest in aviation as an Oakwood teen and was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association. He said he was an “airport bum” and would hang around the airport in the late 1970s. He went to school and trained in Tulsa, Okla., and earned his airframe and mechanics license.

Vadeboncoeur said he was “enamored with the work” in working on World

Article source: http://www.commercial-news.com/news/local_news/restoring-aviation-s-past/article_9cfcb5e8-55bc-53f3-82c0-ac7ca3a795b0.html

As China rises to the status of a global superpower, it is looking to acquire assets on a scale possessed previously only found operated by the United States: a huge fleet of gigantic, globe-spanning cargo planes. Indeed, its new Y-20 “Chubby Girl” transport is the largest aircraft in production since the U.S. completed production of the C-17.

The U.S. Air Force currently operates nearly six hundred C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster and C-5 Galaxy cargo planes. The People’s Liberation Army Air Force only as around 145 transports according to figures from Flight Global, of which 43 are Y-7s only capable of lifting six tons. For global ‘strategic’ lift capability, the PLAAF relies on twenty-two Il-76MD jets purchased from Russia which can lug 53 tons of cargo in their portly holds. For example, after the outbreak of civil war in Libya in 2011, the PLAAF mustered four Il-76s to evacuate its citizens.

Today, China increasingly needs to sustain military deployments to Africa as well as bases and allies in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. But the desire for strategic airlift capability can also be explained by factors much closer to home. After the devastating 2005 earthquake in Sichuan, the PLAAF struggled to deploy cargo planes to the disaster zone.

Just a year later, the Xi’an Aircraft Corporation began work on a new strategic airlifter. Previously, nearly all Chinese transports were clones or imports of Soviet designs, and Xi’an indeed turned to the Antonov design bureau for assistance. The Ukrainian company offered a

Article source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-about-chinas-stealth-fighter-or-aircraft-carriers-plane-america-needs-worry-about

Which has more advertising potential in Boston, a flower shop or a funeral home? How could you solve humankind’s biggest crisis given $1 billion and a spacecraft? What is the number of new book titles published in the U.S. each year?

You probably don’t know the answers to these questions, and they don’t really have anything to do with what most people do on a day to day basis, but brain teasers like these — the kind that Google became notorious for asking its job candidates — can pop up during job interviews anyway. While they might not be of much use for understanding how well people can do their job, a new study shows that the brain teasers tell us a lot about the person who asks them.

Riddle me this!

The study, published in Applied Psychology, was carried out by Scott Highhouse of Bowling Green State University, Christopher Nye of Michigan State University, and Don Zhang of Louisiana State University. It involved 736 individuals.

Each test subject was given a list of potential interview questions which were either traditional (‘are you a good listener?’), behavioral (‘give me an example of when you made a mistake and how you corrected it.’), or a brain teaser. They were then asked which questions they were likely to use in an interview they were conducting. The subjects then took personality tests.

After accounting for factors of gender [i] and experience giving interviews, the researchers found that a

Article source: https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/study-brain-teasers-in-job-interviews-mainly-reveal-the-sadistic-traits-of-the-interviewer