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Article source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/why-electric-powered-airplanes-are-headed-for-takeoff-quicktake
The Woodland Davis Aeromodelers invite the public to the 25th annual “Wings of Victory” World War II scale radio-control aircraft meet from Friday, June 28, to Sunday, June 30.
There will be scale models of World War II warbirds, including American, British, German, Russian, Italian and Japanese aircraft of that era — P-51s, P-40s, Bf 109s, Zeros, Spitfires, P-47s, and multi-engine bombers such as B-17 and B-25s.
The event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, June 28, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, and 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Woodland Davis Model Field on Road 29, 1.3 miles east of road 102, north of Davis.
Attendance is free. Food and drinks will be available on site. For information, go online to www.wdarc.org.
Article source: https://www.davisenterprise.com/community/briefly/world-war-ii-era-model-planes-take-wing/
American Airlines has agreed to order 50 of Airbus’ longest-range, single aisle aircraft, a big endorsement for the planes that Boeing’s chief rival unveiled earlier this week.
The deal for the A321XLR jetliners, announced at the Paris Air Show on Wednesday, makes the Fort Worth-based airline the first major U.S. carrier to agree to buy the longest-range narrowbody plane Airbus now offers. Under the agreement, American will convert 30 of its orders for the smaller Airbus A321neo in favor of the longer-range model, and order an 20 additional A321XLRs.
The planes could replace some older aircraft like Boeing 757s. The new planes are aimed at longer routes where there aren’t enough travelers to support the expense of operating a larger twin-aisle jet.
American’s endorsement of the new Airbus planes comes as Boeing is mulling an all-new double-aisle plane targeting mid-range routes. Analysts had expected Boeing to unveil the new offering at the Paris Air Show. But hopes faded as the Chicago-based company has been hobbled by the crisis left by two fatal crashes of its best-selling 737 Max planes, which have been grounded since mid-March.
Boeing did win a surprise vote of confidence in the 737 Max during this year’s air show with a 200-plane order from British Airways’ parent International Consolidated Airlines Group, the first order for the beleaguered jets since they were grounded three months
Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/19/american-airlines-to-become-the-first-us-airline-to-order-new-airbus-plane.html
Tye Tomchak has been interested in aviation since he was a kid.
“I think airplanes are always interesting,” he said. “I don’t care who you are, an airplane flies over, you go look up to see what it is.”
Taylor Wehausen is newer to the hobby. Now 15, he told his sixth-grade class that he wanted to be a pilot when he’s older. Two years ago, he started to look into building and flying model airplanes.
“I was browsing YouTube one day, and I saw (videos of) it,” he said.
The Desert Eagles model airplane Flying Club has been around since the late 1990s, with club members meeting to fly their gliders and gas– and electric-powered model planes in a field off of New Sweden Road that the group leases from Bonneville County. While the public is always welcome to watch when they’re out there flying, on Saturday the club is holding an open house to expose even more people to the hobby they love.
Saturday’s open house starts at 10 a.m. and goes to about 2 p.m.
“Basically we open the doors to the public, let them see what we do,” said Stu Eddins, the club’s vice president.
There will be a raffle and refreshments, and visitors will be able to fly some of the model planes using a “buddy box,” or a controller that is also controlled by one of the club members who knows how to fly one.
“(It’s) mainly a good time flying,” Eddins said. “Nothing real complicated. Just having a good time out here,
Article source: https://www.postregister.com/news/local/model-plane-club-to-hold-open-house-saturday/article_afaab7ab-5622-5511-91ff-9b5542729479.html
More mass destruction by big bad mutations
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, my public school classmates and I were encouraged, quite aggressively, to support an ongoing fundraising effort by the Roman Catholic school that was happening directly across the street from our secular institution of elementary learning.
Hundreds of us paid a few dollars to be crammed into that parochial school’s auditorium on an early Sunday afternoon to watch some silly, dated, Japanese monster movies, playing on the charmingly quaint reel to reel projectors that were the standard in all the schools of the 1970s.
At the time, it did not seem that odd at all. A lot of the kids in the neighborhood, including me, were very deeply committed to the indoctrination of the Catholic church. At least half of us attended CCD classes every Sunday in the Catholic school’s classrooms, right after we participated in the regular Sunday church service.
Enter into this equation the Godzilla and monster movies, from the middle of the last century, that …
Article source: https://news.gulfbreezenews.com/articles/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters/
Article source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/middleeast/iran-drone-claim-hnk-intl/index.html
RIO GRANDE, Ohio — Learning to fly just became a little easier.
Recently, the Rio Grande Flyers Club held a public demonstration of radio controlled model airplanes at the Bossard Memorial Library in Gallipolis, Ohio, with both adults and children invited to attend. A follow-up demonstration will be offered on June 23, at 1:30 p.m. at the club field, located across the road from the Bob Evans Restaurant in Rio Grande, Ohio.
According to a news release from the Rio Grande Flyers Club, “the library demonstration was fun, with several club members explaining how airplanes fly, how they are controlled, and finally an electronic simulator to practice flying the airplanes. The children especially enjoyed trying to fly the airplane for the first time. They had controls with a full sized screen to see their efforts.”
After a crash, the electronic controls could be reset with the push of a button, for another try.
“The kids had a ball, but with no real damage from the crashes,” a press release from the Club continued.
“At first the take-offs would result in an uncontrolled climb, followed by a stall and spectacular crash with parts flying everywhere. But the kids learned fast and after only a few attempts, began to learn how to take-off, fly around, and even start to do a landing.”
The simulator was the most popular event of the evening with a long line, but all had many opportunities to try it before the program’s end. Several model planes were on hand for examination and children
Article source: https://www.mydailyregister.com/news/42236/learning-to-fly-radio-controlled-planes
