Model Airplanes

RANTOUL — The National Free Flight Society and the Academy of Model Aeronautics will host the 2018 Indoor National Contest from 8 a.m.-noon Sunday, May 27, in Rantoul.

The groups are looking for 25 boys and girls from ages 10-16 to build and fly a model airplane.

All supplies will be provided at no cost to the entrants.

Coaches will be at every table helping each participant to build his or her own model.

Participants will be able to keep the model to take home and fly. Each participant will also get a kit to take home.

The event will be held at Hangar 3 at the former Chanute Air Force Base.

To enter contact Bud Layne at 270-404-8646 or Ann Thornton at 270-629-3252.
 

Article source: http://www.rantoulpress.com/news/2018-05-18/boys-girls-sought-build-fly-model-airplanes.html

UTICA – Due to the threat of bad weather on Saturday, the public event to celebrate the Masonic Care Community’s 125th anniversary has been postponed.

The event was initially scheduled for Saturday, May 19, but it will instead be held in conjunction with Masonic’s Wings and Wheels car show on Saturday, Aug. 18. The event will be 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Masonic Care Community campus.

The anniversary celebration is free to attend, and it will include food, live music, activities for kids, and fireworks. The Wings and Wheels car show will have more than 150 cars, motorcycles and RC model airplanes, and a $5 donation will be asked to show a vehicle, but the event is free to attend.

The sold-out gala at Acacia Village will still go on at planned this Saturday.

Article source: http://www.wktv.com/content/news/Outdoor-event-to-celebrate-Masonics-125th-anniversary-postponed-482921201.html

There are no classrooms at Riverpoint Academy in the Mead School District and that’s just the way the students and teachers like it.

The STEM school, located in a former motorcycle showroom at 11008 N. Newport Highway, has two large open spaces separated by a science lab, which is currently home to some glass beakers, rabbits, geckos, fish and a turtle named Sheldon who is the school’s unofficial mascot.

Students sit by themselves, in pairs or in groups, typing on laptops as they huddle around tables or sprawl in chairs. Teachers meet with students alone or in small groups to discuss ongoing projects. There are no bells, no rows of tables and no lectures.

“You will very rarely see a teacher in front of students and if you do it’s no more than 10 students,” teacher Matt Green said.

The school is highly individualized. Each student is required to take one core course each semester. There are only four core classes, so students end up taking the same class multiple times. But since students are given a lot of freedom in what they study, material does not get repeated, Green said.

“Typically, it’s a deeper explanation of things,” he said.

One of the core classes is Inventioneering, which includes everything from 3-D modeling to manufacturing to U.S. History to the humanities. The school of 170 students has eight teachers that teach each core course in pairs.

The back part of the school is a “maker space” full of equipment, including 3-D printers, laser cutters

Article source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/17/learning-without-barriers-riverpoint-academy-a-ste/

By Jonathan Gallardo

Gillette News Record

Via Wyoming News Exchange

GILLETTE — The next time you’re in the terminal at the Gillette-Campbell County Airport, look up.

Over the Indian riding bareback hunting a bison and the pronghorn grazing next to a windmill you’ll see vintage planes engaged in a dogfight straight out of World War I.

The Gillette Sage Hoppers RC Club spent several hours Friday cleaning and hanging five model planes to keep history alive, commemorate some of their former members and instill a love for airplanes in everyone who walks under them.

Several years ago, the club hung a model B-17 Flying Fortress and a P-51 Mustang, arguably the two most iconic U.S. planes from World War II. And Friday, the club was back at it again, hanging a Piper Super Cub, an L-4 Grasshopper and a Taube, an early Austrian plane.

But the two most recognizable planes are the Fokker Triplane and the Sopwith Camel, famously flown by Snoopy in his imaginary battles with the Red Baron.

Last summer, Jack Adsit, the group’s vice president, was at the funeral of Charlie Davis, a former member, when he came up with the idea of pooling money and buying the Piper Super Cub from Davis’ estate and donating the money to his widow. While at the funeral, Adsit spoke with member Dick Rindels about hanging his L-4 Grasshopper at the airport.

Rindels liked the idea.

Rindels died

Article source: http://newslj.com/model-airplane-group-promotes-hobby-with-airport-display/