Model Airplanes

On Nov. 8, 1975, Robert Zambelli bought himself a Ferrari. It was a beautiful thing: a yellow 1967 330 GTC, one of the first twelve-cylinder cars sold by a dealership which was not yet called Ferrari of Atlanta. A pilot by trade, Zambelli paid somewhere in the neighbourhood of $10,000 for the car and drove it happily, performing his own maintenance.

Ferrari values began to climb. Zambelli drove his car. Suddenly, his 330 GTC was worth 10 times what he’d paid for it.

Zambelli put 10,000 kilometres worth of track time on his little yellow sportscar. The car’s worth crested the US$500,000 mark. Bob took his Ferrari camping.

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“I really don’t think much about its value,” he said, speaking from his home in South Carolina, “I just drive and enjoy. In fact, I drive it everywhere – to the post office, general shopping and on vacations. I’ve gone to Lowe’s and put bags of mulch in the trunk. I fly model airplanes and I go to the flying field with a bunch of airplanes in the GTC. As I recall, the longest trip was around 700 miles each way. But I’ve made many other trips – 100 to 500 miles each way.”

Today, Zambelli’s Ferrari has about 300,000 kilometres on it. He’s still driving it.

It seems as though every other day brings headlines trumpeting some new find of a low-mileage rarity. A pair of untouched Buick Grand Nationals shows up in an Oklahoma garage.

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MESA, AZ – An airshow will be in the sky over east Mesa this weekend — just on a smaller scale — as the Arizona Model Aviators celebrate the 14th annual Arizona Electric Festival. 

More than 100 model airplanes and helicopters will be on hand at the show, starting Friday, February 9, at 8:00 a.m. and running through Sunday.

From military aircraft like the A-10 and F-14 Tomcat to a commercial model Southwest 747. All sizes, styles and eras of aircraft will be on hand to see and take flight.

Admission is just $6 per car and the Superstition Airfield is located on Levee Dr. about a half-mile north of Brown Road and Meridian Drive in Mesa.

To learn more about the Arizona Model Aviators. click here. 

Article source: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/mesa/model-planes-take-flight-in-mesa-this-weekend-for-14th-annual-arizona-electric-festival

To build more aerodynamic machines, researchers are drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the ocean.

A team of evolutionary biologists and engineers at Harvard University, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of South Carolina, have shed light on a decades-old mystery about sharkskin and, in the process, demonstrated a new, bioinspired structure that could improve the aerodynamic performance of planes, wind turbines, drones and cars.

The research is published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Sharks and airplanes aren’t actually all that different. Both are designed to efficiently move through fluid (water and air), using the shape of their bodies to generate lift and decrease drag. The difference is, sharks have about a 400 million-year head start on the design process.

Environmental scanning electron microscope image of denticles from the shortfin mako shark (a) and (its corresponding parametric 3D model (b). These denticles were arranged in a wide range of different configurations on an aerofoil, two examples of which are shown here (c,d ). (Image courtesy of Harvard University)

“The skin of sharks is covered by thousands and thousands of small scales, or denticles, which vary in shape and size around the body,” said George Lauder, the Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology and Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and co-author of the research.  “We know a lot about the structure of these denticles — which are very similar to human teeth — but the function has been debated.”

Most research has focused on

Article source: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2018/02/using-shark-scales-to-design-better-drones-planes-and-wind-turbines

Clyde Einar Norell, 87, of Rochester, died of cancer on Feb. 4, 2018, at Seasons Hospice in Rochester.

His parents, older brother and sister were all born in Sweden, but Clyde was born in Duluth on Oct. 22, 1930. He was proud to be “made in America with Swedish parts.”

Clyde graduated from Superior Central High School in Superior, Wis., in 1949 and joined the U.S. Navy. He flew in a long-range maritime service reconnaissance aircraft, the Lockheed P2V Neptune, as a flight engineer. He flew on deployments out of Whidbey Island, Wash., and Kodiak, Alaska, to cover the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, coast of Russia and the Arctic Circle. Later he flew air cover over Hawaii and Guam. The purpose of the trips was protection of the maritime shipping lanes for supplies to the front lines in Korea.

At the end of the war, Clyde left the Navy and enrolled in college with the aid of the G.I. Bill. He graduated five years later from what is now University of Wisconsin-Superior with a BS degree with majors in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Secondary Education.

Clyde joined IBM Rochester as a Chemist in 1958 and over a 32-year career, he supported engineers in the Materials Laboratory, Manufacturing Engineering and the Development Laboratory working on advanced magnetic recording storage files. He retired in 1991.

Clyde married Susan Jane Schartau on Oct. 17, 1959. They made their home in Rochester, where they raised their two children. Clyde enjoyed traveling with Susan, bowling, golfing, playing cards, fishing, and

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