Model Airplanes

The company said in a recent shareholder letter that it will focus on higher profit margin vehicles. Although the company still advertises the $35,000 price on its website, a Model 3 can’t be had for less than $49,000 and, with the Autopilot self-drive system and other options, can easily exceed $60,000. After its earnings announcement and analyst conference call on Feb. 7, Tesla adjusted its delivery timeline for the $35,000 model, pushing it to late 2018 or early 2019.

Article source: http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-model3-quality-20180218-story.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One metro girl’s life is changed forever with a prosthetic arm 3D printed to fit her like a glove.

FOX4’s Sherae Honeycutt was there as eight-year-old Zadie Wilson got her new arm.

It wasn’t Zadie’s birthday, but with the gift she received it may as well be.

A couple of years ago, Zadie’s family visited Science City, and one of their makers connected them with E-Nable, an online community that helps design and distribute 3D printed prosthetics free of charge.

“Everything we do here is to help educate kids, but to really be making something impactful with our maker space is fabulous,” said Ryan Bell, a Maker Specialist at Science City.

Jaquin Buchanan designs and makes prosthetics through E-Nable as a hobby. Buchanan lives in Colorado, and traveled to Kansas City on a special trip to deliver Zadie’s arm.

He let Zadie make some design choices like the color pink, a rainbow band, and a bedazzled skull and cross bones.

Buchanan works as a software engineer in his daily life.

Zadie’s arm the first prosthetic he’s presented to a child.

“Even though it’s just a hobby, you really are looking for something that’s more fulfilling than model airplanes. You’re looking for something that’s going to help someone else out, and it’s really nice to get that feeling,” Buchanan said.

When Zadie heard that she was getting her new arm her mom says she couldn’t contain her excitement.

“I told Zadie, and she’s jumping up and down running through the house going, ‘I get my arm! When?!’,”

Article source: http://fox4kc.com/2018/02/18/girl-gets-3d-printed-arm-thanks-to-connection-through-science-city-at-union-station/

ASHLAND — Brent Maggard loved flying model planes so much when he was growing up that he eventually became a fighter pilot, flying a F-22 Raptor for the United States Air Force.

He became hooked on flying after his father, Terry, took him to see the Tri-State Model Flyers Club’s planes at the Ashland Town Center when he was 9 years old. Even though Terry himself had been an F-15 Eagle pilot, Brent was the one who taught him how to fly model planes.

Terry wasn’t too interested in the club at first, so the guys in the club taught Brent how to fly. On Brent’s 11th birthday, he took his dad out to the club’s airfield at Paul Coffey Industrial Park in Cannonsburg, Kentucky, put the controller in his hands and taught him how to fly all over again.

“A young person can acquire a lot of knowledge in model aviation because it’s … the same mechanics,” said Lawrence Caines, president of the Tri-State Model Flyers Club. “It’s great for young people, and we need young people.”

Brent, now 27, is currently deployed in the Arabian Peninsula, but Terry stuck with the club after he retired and helps it attract younger folks. One of the ways it does that is by going back to the Ashland Town Center every year and giving beaming kids the chance to try their hand at a flight simulator.

On Saturday and Sunday, kids dragged their parents and siblings over to see the club’s display of several powered, soaring and

Article source: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/tri-state-model-flyers-club-attracts-kids-at-ashland-town/article_f0627a7c-d20a-5852-ac06-ad138a3304ef.html