Model Airplanes

Robert Hatfield Judd

April 17, 1927 – May 29, 2019

Longtime Marin resident, Robert “Bob” Judd died peacefully in his sleep at his Mill Valley home on May 29, 2019. The retired consulting engineer, UC Berkeley graduate, and member of the “greatest generation” was 92 years old.
Born on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1927, at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley CA, Robert Hatfield Judd was the youngest of three children of Hubert Judd and Ellen Vanderhoof Judd. He grew up on Vincente Ave. in Berkeley during the great depression, and he remembered milk and ice deliveries to his parent’s back door. Despite the depression, “Bobby” and his two older sisters, Lois and Janice, had a pleasant childhood with summer trips in the family car. During his childhood, he discovered his mechanical aptitude and began a lifelong love of aviation and model airplanes. Typical of many in his generation, he carried the Saturday Evening Post for one of his first jobs, and was both a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout during the 1930’s. Robert graduated from Garfield Junior High (now MLK Junior High) and attended Berkeley High School, graduating in 1945. During the summer of 1943, Bob joined the Civil Air Patrol Cadets (CAP), which was a first step for teenage boys planning to join the US Army Air Corps, and he picked up a job at the Moore Shipyard

Article source: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=robert-judd&pid=193248202

WEST CHESTER—Since Monday, 26 children have been learning and playing alongside their grandparents at West Chester University’s Grandparents University.

The children, ages 7 to 14, have maneuvered TV cameras and filmed news reports in West Chester University’s TV studio; made and flown foam model airplanes; gotten their hands dirty as they made clay pinch pots; created costumes; even took to the trees on WCU’s ropes adventure course to learn about working as a team.

Now in its ninth year, WCU’s Grandparents University is an opportunity for family members to spend time together in a fun learning environment. It’s a mini-camp of a college experience: Each family has a suite-style room for two nights in one of WCU’s newest residence halls. Participants share meals at the dining hall, attend interactive classes, explore campus, and enjoy evening entertainment and activities.

Attending were 22 grandparents, 30 grandchildren, and 10 WCU alumni.

The program is open to the public, with the majority of registrants being WCU retired faculty and staff – including many who’ve participated multiple years. This year, families hailed from South Carolina, Virginia, New York, and Ohio as well as Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.

WCU’s Grandparents University concluded Wednesday with a graduation ceremony complete with the awarding of diplomas to every “graduate.”

Article source: https://www.dailylocal.com/news/local/grandparents-university-brings-two-generations-closer-in-west-chester/article_92b3df5e-9834-11e9-bf4d-5f27f9c5ba2c.html

It has been quite a year for low-cost airline
Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes
,
the Brazilian equivalent of
Southwest Airlines

(ticker: LUV).

The carrier flies an all-
Boeing

737 fleet of 122 jets—including seven of the troubled MAX model planes, which have been grounded world-wide since March. What’s more, the air-carrier market in Brazil has shrunk to three players from four. Privately held Avianca Brasil, the country’s fourth-largest carrier, declared bankruptcy in December and has ceased operations.

“All three [domestic Brazilian] carriers are now publicly traded,” says Gol (GOL) CEO Paulo Kakinoff during a Monday visit to Barron’s in New York. “Now [the industry is] all focused on creating shareholder value.”

The industry restructuring has already affected GOL shares, sending them up 24% year to date, outpacing the Brazilian
BOVESPA Index.

Article source: https://www.barrons.com/articles/brazilian-airline-gol-ceo-boeing-737-max-51561410972

The Hoos Flying Club went to Texas and took on the world – and the winds.

The University of Virginia team competed in March in the Society of Automotive Engineers Aero Design East International Competition in Fort Worth, going up against 43 teams from around the world with a radio-controlled model airplane competition that rewarded their design and construction and the plane’s performance.

The UVA group came in third overall, behind teams from Canada and China, and first among the 23 U.S. teams.

“The University should be justly proud of this Engineering School achievement,” said David Eames, a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and one of the club’s advisers. Other advisers included George Cahen, Lloyd Barrett and David Sheffler.

On its first flight, fighting 20-to 30-mph crosswinds, the blue, white and orange airplane taxied down the runway, lifted off tentatively, wobbled in the wind a little, and then flew into a blue and cloudless sky. It dipped and fluttered, buffeted by the winds, and made a long, turbulent turn to reverse direction, accompanied by scattered applause. It flew back over the airfield as team members along the runway called encouragement: “C’mon! C’mon!”

As it reversed course again and swooped down toward the field for landing, the crosswind twisted it sideways as it descended and a team member shouted “No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no!” until the plane suddenly righted itself, touched down on the runway with a jolt and bounced back up in the air. “Oh my god! Oh my god!” someone shouted as the

Article source: https://news.virginia.edu/content/wing-and-prayer-hoos-flying-club-best-us