My son got a toy shop voucher last Christmas — a great gift for him, a diplomatic mission for me. He was always going to want something bigger and better than the voucher could afford. There’s something condemning about our culture when a child can leave a toy shop unhappy.
As it turned out, though, he was fine. It was me who wandered into a weird experience; the toys sparking another in a series of middle-age crises.
My son and I separated shortly after we first walked into the toy shop. I wanted to show him the model planes and boats I used to build when I was a kid. He had no interest in those and ran off to find the latest Ninjago and Nexo Knights box sets — Lego subcultures I didn’t fully understand.
At first I didn’t believe it. The largely forgotten stealth aircraft that competed with, and lost to, the YF-22 to become our next fighter was sitting on an apron just a few miles south of LAX. The YF-23, arguably far more futuristic looking than the F-22, never made it to production, but the two prototypes still exist, and one of them is in Torrance at the Western Museum of Flight. Practically my backyard.
That’s not all this museum has, either. Next to the YF-23 is another rare prototype: a YF-17. This lost out to the aircraft that would become the F-16. It was reborn a short time later as the F/A-18 Hornet that still serves the Navy today.
You’ll see a Harrier Jump Jet trainer, an F-5 you can actually sit in and more at this lovely little museum. Here’s a full tour.
The WMOF currently occupies two parts of two hangars at Zamperini Field in Torrance, California, about halfway between LAX and Long Beach. They squeeze a lot into the small spaces, though. Upon arriving I was greeted by several docents, all of whom were exceptionally friendly and welcoming.
Toy cars, figurines, games, dolls, model airplanes, comics, and so much more sit on display for sale at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017.
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Ted Stockert, left, and Larry Linrud, right, were honored for their work and support of the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot. Linrud rebuilt the air museum’s biplane shown above. Stockert made a one-eighth scale 1929 Arrow Sport model displayed nearby. Don Larson, air museum board president, is in the center.
Larry Linrud has spent many hours rebuilding an Arrow Sport biplane and Ted Stockert building a model of an Arrow Sport.
Linrud, of Velva, rebuilt the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s Arrow Sport. Stockert, of Bismarck, built a one-eighth scale replica of the plane.
Both men were honored for their work and support at a presentation held in the air museum in Minot. Plaque awards were presented to them by Don Larson, air museum board president. Each award carries a picture of the Arrow Sport done by Leon Basler, of Bismarck, air museum board member.
The Arrow Sport is a biplane built in the 1920s at Arrow Aircraft and Motors Corp. in Nebraska.
Linrud was looking for a project to do about three years ago. The air museum had the Arrow Sport biplane but about 40 percent of the plane was missing.
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This is the one-eighth scale 1929 Arrow Sport model that Ted Stockert made. It is displayed in the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot near the full-sized plane that Larry Linrud built.
The Arrow Sport was one of five planes the air museum acquired from a private party in Washington
Plans for a model flying club to create a runway for its radio controlled-aircraft are set to get the green light to go-ahead at a planning committee next week.
On Wednesday, November 22, a decision will be made on the future of the site – and the recommendation by Gedling Borough Council is for the plans to be approved with certain measures.
The brownfield site in Oxton Road, Calverton, was a former colliery which was closed in 1999.
Rolls Royce Model Flying Club, who are hoping to use the land, were forced to relocate after land which they had been using for more than 60 years in Hucknall was sold by Rolls Royce.
The flying club propose to create a 100m runway strip by mowing the grass, and part of the site will be used for members to park their vehicles.
Brian Wilson, the chairman of the Rolls Royce Model Flying Club, said: “There is a misconception that model airplanes will be up in the air all day long, but that isn’t true at all.
“We have around 114 members but on a good day we would only have about half a dozen people down at one time – and to be honest we should be called the Rolls Royce talking club because that’s what we tend to do, rather than fly.
A Yak 54 model plane belonging to a member of the Rolls Royce
Guest Editorial By Saron Messembe Obia, IACSP South East Asia Region
Introduction
The internet is a global tool for the transfer of information by individuals, organizations, and governments.
The globalization (with focus on the digital economy) has changed the world, with e-commerce, e-banking and other services in the government in relation to human security.
Durkheim E. observed that crime, violence and deviant behavior are linked to community welfare and development.
Violence and crime, therefore, affect every dimension of man’s social existence from a socio-political and historical perspective and are not new phenomena in the field of development theory.
Robert Merton argues that ‘innovation’ is a response to the strain generated by the cultural emphasis on the acquisition of wealth and the lack of opportunities to achieve it; the quest to get rich and the lack of the means to get rich.
This causes people (particularly youths) in Africa like in other parts of the world, to be innovators and thereby engage in illegal activities that are considered deviant, such as cybercrimes, cyberbullying, identity theft and jihadism.
Merton’s observation about some young innovators adhere to societal goals but reject the socially acceptable means of achieving them such as monetary success gained through crime.
He equally claims that innovators are those who socialize with similar world views (the internet world or Android generation) but who have been denied the opportunities they need to be able to legitimately achieve society’s goals.
As such, they indulge in cybercrime (419ners, Ngues man, Machine man, Scammer and Sakawa just to name a few),
