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

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The recent changes to the tax code are giving business executives a new perk: the opportunity to deduct the entirety of a corporate-jet purchase.

President Trump signed more than 100 changes to the U.S. tax code into law at the end of last year. Among them: The price of a new or used airplane purchased by a company can be a 100% write-off against its earnings.

That…

Article source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-change-helps-executives-afford-pricier-planes-1536763868

The latest update on the budget-busting International Arrivals Facility at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport states that the new facility will open eight months later than originally planned and that its cost has swelled to almost $1 billion.

After a Port of Seattle staff report in April conceded big cost overruns and schedule delays, Port Commissioners appointed an independent review panel to assess the status of the project and make recommendations to get it finished. At that time, the budget had blown past the Port’s earliest 2013 estimate of $300 million and the original 2015 contract estimate of $608 million to reach $830 million, and the project was running five months late.