Model Airplanes

When my brother Bob was just 13, he would build model airplanes so patiently and carefully that every wheel turned, every propeller spun and every decal was perfectly placed.

Me? I was just 5 and itching to get my fingers on his beautiful airplanes like a red-eyed mongoose in a roomful of snakes.

“Now, Petey,” he would say as he gently painted a wing or tire. “This airplane won’t really fly. You know that. Right?”

Maybe not for you, big brother.

Well. You know the rest. I threw it. It crashed. They all crashed. P-40 Tomahawks. P-51 Mustangs. Redstone rockets.

Ultimately, Bob took to hanging his models from his bedroom ceiling by fishing line, far beyond my reaching fingers.

Joe Musso knows all about that itch. He loves airplanes and now he restores the real thing for the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum. Armed with body putty, sheet metal and accurate historical photos, Musso and his crew of restoration junkies like bringing old airplanes back to life again.

No, the airplanes can’t fly again. They just look like it.

“First time I came out to the museum, it was to judge a model airplane contest,” said Musso, a former Pueblo County Sheriff’s deputy. “Man, I just fell in love with the place.”

That’s easy to understand. The airplane collection at the Pueblo museum is astonishing with rare aircraft, from the World War II B-29 bomber “Peachy” to the sleek F-104 NASA test jet.

Just two years ago, Musso and his crew brought two legendary Soviet MiGs back from an Arizona airplane

Article source: http://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/pueblo-weisbrod-aircraft-museum-volunteers-bringing-aviation-history-back-to/article_2c000333-2287-567f-a178-c7ec5ba43457.html

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A pair of reports claiming Jennifer Aniston’s divorce is getting “ugly” over the return of Justin Theroux’s belongings is made-up. Gossip Cop can exclusively correct these stories. We’re told it’s all “wrong.”

The British tabloid Heat got the ball rolling by alleging in a new article that Theroux wants back his “toys,” “comic books,” moisturizers, and even the nearly 8-carat diamond engagement ring he gave Aniston. The magazine writes that Theroux has been “forced to live the last few months without his trusty Kiehl’s products,” which are supposedly in Aniston’s Bel Air home, and “he’s demanding she send it all back asap.” The publication even quotes a so-called “insider,” who alleges “Justin wants his prized train collection, his stash of Kiehl’s… his action-man figures, model airplanes and limited-edition comic books.”

The outlet further asserts Aniston is “especially hurt” that Theroux is “demanding she return her $500K engagement ring.” “It’s getting ugly,” says the tabloid’s supposed “source.” The magazine adds that the actress is “offended” that Theroux is “thinking more about possession than her feelings.”

While the tabloid’s article is already riddled with errors and untruths, it fully exposes that its story is fabricated when it drags Brad Pitt into its false narrative. The publication writes that even though Aniston is “hurt by Justin’s insensitive behavior,” Pitt has been “more understanding” and has helped her through the split. The same seemingly fake “insider” contends Pitt has let Aniston “know he’s there for her” and he’s ready to see where their “journey takes

Article source: https://www.gossipcop.com/jennifer-aniston-justin-theroux-divorce-ugly/

David Szondy

Article source: https://newatlas.com/electrically-charged-airplanes-lightning/53753/

AVON, Ohio – Year after year nothing keeps the nearly 1,000 people away from Heritage Elementary School’s annual Science Night.

The hallways have signs and balloons directing visitors all over both Heritage North and Heritage South to see a dizzying array of exhibits.

This year Heritage North featured chemistry, space and flight exploration, body systems, electrical, cryptography, astronomy, police animals, and the never-to-be-missed “grossology” room where the making of “snot” reigns supreme for another year.

Once again, art teacher John Yagoda teaches everyone how to make “snot” to go at Science Night.Linda Gandee/special to cleveland.com 

Heritage South presented exhibits as varied as bed bugs, de-icing the roads, K-9 police dogs, robotics, a skull collection, meteorites and Harry Potter’s Magical World of Science. The grossology factor was alive and well at South too, with a “burp” laboratory.

Art teacher John Yagoda had the fascinating assignment to teach kids and their parents how to make artificial “snot.” He said almost everyone who attends Science Night comes through his classroom where little cups are lined up on rows of tables for the participants to mix together a concoction of glue and liquid starch to make the end product to take home.

Yagoda was feeling a bit sentimental about this year though, as he will be moving from his 15 fifth grade classes to teaching 10 classes in grades 6-8 next year. He said there is a distinct difference in the age groups as the older students “explore materials further, mastering the materials.”

Article source: http://www.cleveland.com/avon/index.ssf/2018/03/science_night_another_big_succ.html

By Donna Hunt, For the Herald Democrat

Friday was a day many people in Denison had anticipated with mixed emotions. Some thought it would never happen but that the time was right and some just hoped that it never would happen.

Early Friday morning I read posts on Facebook by several people saying that Central Ward School was being demolished. I quickly got ready, grabbed my camera and drove into town to see for myself what was happening and to take pictures to document the demise of a building that was over 100 years old. Actually, had the school been in operation, it would have celebrated its 100th birthday last year.

As it was, several generations of many families spent their elementary school years at the three story brick school building. By Friday at 10 a.m., the cafeteria on the west end of the structure and the auditorium and some classrooms on the east end had been leveled by the huge trackhoe while a fence was being erected around the property to keep curious observers out. I’m guessing when the demolition was finished, only the giant oak tree that has stood on the northeast corner of the school ground since the school building was erected in 1917 will still be standing. Children ages 6 through possibly 13 or 14 years old played daily in the shade of that building.

I wasn’t around when the school was built, but my dad, Lucious Hord was and he also had a lot

Article source: http://www.heralddemocrat.com/news/20180310/central-wars-will-be-remembered