Model Airplanes

When it comes to external drives, solid-state or flash has historically carried such a big premium over traditional spinning hard drives that to buy one – especially a high capacity model – was really only a consideration for the wealthier tech addicts out there.

However, the relentless march of technological evolution means that we now have access to even cheaper SSDs from the main players on the market, with prices likely to dive even further later this year (watch out for November’s Black Friday 2019 by the way).

Silicon Power, which sent us the nimble B10 SSD and the rugged A85 HDD recently, has provided a brand new model to evaluate, the B75 – a military-grade shockproof SSD in an aluminum case (which makes it an external SSD).

Four SKUs are available and retail for anywhere between £25 ($32) for the 120GB model to just over £285 ($370) for the 960GB model. The one we’re reviewing is the 480GB model which retails for £135 ($175), and as you may have noticed, this means that the smallest SKU carries the lowest price per GB for some strange reason. Blame it on the laws of supply and demand.

Design

This drive has received a number of design awards internationally and the company’s lead designer got his inspiration from the Junkers F.13, the world’s first all-metal transport airplane. The Bolt B75 consists of two parts: the enclosure proper which contains the controller/connector, and the silver

Article source: https://www.techradar.com/reviews/silicon-power-bolt-b75-480gb

Apple will host an event on September 12 at the Steve Jobs Theatre in the company’s Cupertino, California, campus, where it is widely expected to unveil new iPhone models.

Analysts believe Apple plans to release three new smartphones this year, including one with a larger display than previous models.

Analysts also expect Apple to release an iPhone with a edge-to-edge display similar to the iPhone X but using less-costly LCD screen technology.

Apple’s event invitation made heavy use of the colour gold, fuelling speculation on social media that the company plans to launch a gold-coloured successor to the iPhone X, which was made available only in silver and gray last year.

Documents filed at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission unsealed earlier this year showed Apple had sought approval for a gold version of its iPhone X, but it never released the colour.

Some Southland forest preserves are for hiking, some offer opportunities for canoeing or kayaking, and others are mostly for wildlife habitat. But one area preserve has been set aside for flying.

At the Tinley Creek model airplane Flying Field on Cicero Avenue south of Flossmoor Road, nearly a dozen pilots converge daily to send their hand-built aircraft into the sky, radio-controlled planes that cost from $500 to $15,000 for a tiny jet.

The largely retired members of the the Suburban Aeroclub of Chicago gather to socialize and take turns putting a plane through its paces—maneuvers like stunts and inverted flight over a paved runway and mowed grass on the edge of the forest. Sometimes members of the Tinley Creek Remote Control group turn up to fly helicopters, pricier craft that can run $3,000.

But on weekends, the 21st century arrives. Younger men, many of them members of Chicago Drone Racers FPV, take over a third of the field set aside just for them. Wearing bulky goggles and holding a radio transmitter, they stand still while their drones buzz and swoop. “It’s cool to see what pilots see when they’re flying, especially through trees or around obstacles,” said Brian West, who traveled from Plainfield to the Cook County preserve on a Saturday morning to fly his quadcopter.

The United States Navy is conducting operational testing of the new Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter onboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) together with Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and other aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7.

Operational Test-1 (OT-1) marks the first time the stealthy single-engine F-35C aircraft have flown with a carrier air wing during cyclic operations, where aircraft simulate operationally representative missions and where jets are continuously launching and recovering onboard the carrier. Previously, the F-35C had only flown carrier qualification sorties together with the F/A-18E/F and other carrier air wing aircraft. In addition to testing how well the F-35C integrates with the rest of the carrier air wing, the Navy will evaluate how effective the new Joint Strike Fighter is during operational usage.

“This is the first time we really see how the aircraft works on the aircraft carrier,” Rear Adm. Dale Horan, director, Joint Strike Fighter Fleet Integration Office, said. “How we do maintenance and sustain it while we’re at sea; how it integrates with the ship; how it interoperates with communications, datalinks, the other aircraft; and how we conduct missions and tie in to other aircraft when we conduct missions.” 

One of the Navy’s goals for OT-1 is to evaluate how VFA-125’s F-35Cs integrate with the rest of CVW-7 and Carrier Strike Group 12 and how effectively the jets complete their missions in an operational setting. During OT-1, the F-35Cs are flying alongside F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack

Article source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-coming-worlds-oceans-thanks-navy-aircraft-carriers-29932

On Aug. 29 1948, the upper Midwest was in the middle of a heat wave. The forecast for the La Crosse area that day was for nearly clear skies with a few showers possible. This is the weather report that Northwest Airlines Flight 421 — flying from Chicago to Minneapolis — received.

But an unexpected storm was brewing.

At about 5 p.m., people in Winona, Minn., were staring at the sky, watching a growing thunderstorm approach. The storm grew more intense as it came toward them, with thunder and lightning that was not a part of the initial forecast. It was on this day that Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashed just outside of Winona.

The aircrarft, a Martin 2-0-2, was a little under a year old. It was a newer, more modern model, which offered extras such as reading lights and air conditioning. The flight had an experienced pilot, Robert Johnson, and co-pilot, David Brenner. Johnson had flown more than 500,000 hours, and Brenner, a native of La Crosse, served as a pilot during World War II.

A total of 33 passengers boarded the plane expecting to land in Minneapolis a couple of hours later. It departed from Chicago at 3:50 p.m., and the plane reached its planned altitude of 8,000 feet as it went over Wisconsin. A little after an hour into the flight, the Martin 2-0-2 reported its position, which was over La Crosse. During what would be the airplane’s last check-in, the pilot’s voice was calm.

The plane descended, continued its course and encountered

Article source: https://www.winonadailynews.com/things-that-matter-the-magneto-from-flight/article_b59bf11d-f8cd-5304-bd06-16ada93605eb.html