Model Airplanes

NORTH LOGAN ― For most people, grabbing a bite out to eat involves driving down the street. For others, it involves climbing several thousand feet up in the air.

On Saturday morning, Dale Sorensen was one of many pilots who got into their planes and flew into Logan-Cache Airport for breakfast provided by personnel with Leading Edge Aviation, a fixed base operator.

“I always thought I wanted to be a fighter pilot, so I get up there and fool around — pretend,” Sorensen said with a laugh.

Sorensen, who flew in Saturday from Brigham City on a plane he built himself, has been flying for fun since 1972. When he’s not flying to the Midwest or the West Coast, he does “breakfast fly-ins” with his buddies.

“They get us 25 cents off on gas, so it’s nice to come over and fill up the airplanes,” Sorensen said.

But the main reason he comes is for friends.

“We’re all friends right here at the table,” Sorensen said, gesturing to Steve Sawyer and others who also flew in from Brigham City. “We’ve got a lot of stories to tell.”

Sawyer said he comes to the breakfast fly-in for “fellowship, more than anything.”

“It takes a bit of effort to fly and fly properly, you know — mental, physical and all that,” he said. “We’re all in the same boat.”

David Christensen got interested in flying through building model airplanes.

“I always wanted to be

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A hypobaric chamber hides deep inside the research laboratories at Oklahoma State University. The university is located in an area that has an average temperature that regularly hits highs of more than 30 degrees celsius and is no more than 350 metres above sea level. For people locked inside, conditions in the airtight altitude chamber can be radically different.

During a seven-month period starting in October 2002 the chamber was fitted with 12 economy airline seats – each spaced 34 inches apart, around the average distance for seats on US planes at the time. Each morning a dozen willing volunteers entered the chamber at 10:00. Around 20 hours later, at 06:00, they were released from the sealed room.

Five movies were played on VCRs, a sleeping period took place from 23:00 to 17:00 and meals and snacks were provided. Unlike in conventional flights, the 502 volunteers who took part in the study weren’t allowed alcohol to help them pass the time. Unlimited use of the toilets was allowed.

Each group spent their 20 hours at a differently simulated altitude: from ground level (198m) to a maximum of 2,438m (almost six and a half times the height of New York’s Empire State Building).

ASHWAUBENON – Ice is blamed for 2017 incident that heavily damaged a single-engine plane making an unscheduled landing at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport.

A National Transportation Safety Board report released Monday said the pilot of the Cessna 182T reported ice developing in the plane’s wing and landing gear as he flew from Marquette, Mich., to International Falls, Minn., on the morning of Jan. 11, 2017.

RELATED: Austin Straubel: ‘Fighter through and through’

The pilot said ice on the windshield was obscuring his vision, and altered his course in an effort to land at Lakeland Airport, an airstrip near Woodruff in Oneida County. When weather there wouldn’t allow him to land, he headed for a runway at Austin Straubel, southwest of Green Bay.

About 30 feet above the runway, the aircraft stalled, then slammed into the ground. The pilot walked away uninjured, but the plane was “substantially damaged,” the NTSB found.

The report does not identify the pilot, who was the only person in the four-seat aircraft.

Article source: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2018/04/10/ice-blamed-incident-damaged-single-engine-plane-during-landing-green-bay-austin-straubel-airport/504610002/

A hypobaric chamber hides deep inside the research laboratories at Oklahoma State University. The university is located in an area that has an average temperature that regularly hits highs of more than 30 degrees celsius and is no more than 350 metres above sea level. For people locked inside, conditions in the airtight altitude chamber can be radically different.

During a seven-month period starting in October 2002 the chamber was fitted with 12 economy airline seats – each spaced 34 inches apart, around the average distance for seats on US planes at the time. Each morning a dozen willing volunteers entered the chamber at 10:00. Around 20 hours later, at 06:00, they were released from the sealed room.

Five movies were played on VCRs, a sleeping period took place from 23:00 to 17:00 and meals and snacks were provided. Unlike in conventional flights, the 502 volunteers who took part in the study weren’t allowed alcohol to help them pass the time. Unlimited use of the toilets was allowed.

Each group spent their 20 hours at a differently simulated altitude: from ground level (198m) to a maximum of 2,438m (almost six and a half times the height of New York’s Empire State Building).