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FAIRVIEW — Planes are set to take to the skies Saturday during the 66th annual free Fairview Fly-in and Air Show at Fairview Regional Airport.
The event begins with breakfast 7-10 a.m., which is free for all who fly in and $5 for everyone else. There also is a free turkey for every 10th plane. Admission to the air show is free.
Lunch will be available 11 a.m to 1 p.m. for $6 with the cost getting attendees a hamburger and chips or a hot dog and chips. Drinks and candy will be $1, with slices of pie for $3.
A veterans ceremony will take place at 10:45 a.m.,followed by the air show itself at 12:30 p.m after the air field closes.
Featured in the air show will be Adam Baker flying an Extra 300; Chet Kuhn in a Wolf Pitts; Kate Kyer in a Pitts S2B; Kyle Franklin in a biplane; Chuck Powell parachute jumping; and Tulsa Glue Dobbers Inc. performing with remote control planes. The event features Erin Hardesty as announcer.
According to Fairview Flight Club, which sponsors the fly-in, the event is the oldest of its kind in the world.
As long as the weather cooperates, Flight Club member Teresa Regier said the show will open with a parachute jump with the American flag. Then, the performers will take to the sky, with Tulsa Glue Dobbers flying its model planes in between performances, Regier said.
“Typically, on a nice day, we’ll get anywhere from 100 to 150 airplanes,” Regier said.
The event found its roots 66
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Tesla has recently been promoting an all-electric, super-heavy-duty Semi, a full-size cab capable of pulling a tractor-trailer. Long-haul trucking seems like a challenging play for battery electric power given the extreme distances that need to be covered and the unforgiving time pressures that preclude long breaks for battery charging. However, local delivery trucks seem ripe for this kind of electric disruption, and that is exactly why a number of new and venerable players are entering this market.
In densely populated urban areas, delivery trucks play a key role in “last mile” services, bringing in and out of town just about everything that is bought, sold, consumed, manufactured, or disposed of. And with the continued diminution in bricks-and-mortar stores and the rise of home delivery of nearly everything this role is growing.
The great majority of the delivery vehicles currently on the roads run on internal combustion or diesel engines. They cause air and noise pollution for urban residents, as well as a correlative health and safety risk for their drivers.
Silent, emission free, smoother riding electric vehicles (EVs) can solve for much of this. The average urban delivery route in the U.S. is just 70 miles, a range that can easily be completed with current technology. Adoption is also being driven by potential urban bans on petroleum engines, due to the aforementioned negative health consequences. And as battery costs decrease, studies show that the per-mile
Article source: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/this-is-why-tesla-is-investing-in-all-electric-trucks
The museum’s contribution to “1917: Total War in Flanders” is an exhibition of photography by Frank Hurley, a captain appointed by the Australian army to document the cratered landscape around Ypres. Hurley was a daredevil — he’d earlier traveled to Antarctica on the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton — and he risked his life alongside Australian soldiers when they went over the top.
Photographs from the summer and early fall of 1917 include grim-faced soldiers tiptoeing across mud-spanning duckboards or marching past destroyed trees, as well as images of the crumbled Cloth Hall, the very building where they’re now on display. Yet Hurley felt that his photographs didn’t adequately capture the intensity of Passchendaele, and so he started to combine multiple negatives into single images of hellish drama.
A stunning large photograph of men charging out of the trenches is made up from 12 separate images; the planes above the soldiers’ heads were, however, photographed in the Middle East. Such trickery was commonplace in early war photography, and indeed many of the most famous war photographs — Mathew Brady’s images of Civil War casualties, or Robert Capa’s falling soldier of the Spanish Civil War — were posed or otherwise doctored.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/design/ypres-exhibitions-world-war-i.html
ROSENBERG TX — The Fort Bend Radio Control Club will host its 2nd Annual Open Fly-in and Model Air Show on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 in Rosenberg.
The public is invited to this event which highlights a wide variety of radio-controlled model aircraft. The field opens at 8 a.m.
Flying starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 3 p.m. with a 2-hour break between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for the Air Show, and a one-hour break from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for raffle drawings.
The Club has a 200-foot long covered pavilion to keep guests out of the sun for their viewing comfort.
Club Radio Control Instructors will hold “Buddy Box RC Flying Sessions” where student pilots can pilot a radio control trainer aircraft.
The field is also open to all model aircraft and drones with AMA Licensed Pilots for Open Flying, both before and after the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. mid-day events.
Mid-day events include amazing Scale War Bird Fly-By’s by Bayou Bend Radio Control Club, Aerobatic Scale Aircraft Demonstration Flights, Jet Turbine Flights and a demonstration of Aerobatic Helicopter flying.
Great Schultz BBQ sandwiches will be available starting 11 a.m.
After lunch, raffle drawings will be conducted for a new Spektrum DX8 model aircraft radio and receiver, two Ready-to-Fly RC airplanes and two Ready-to-Fly RC drones.
As a bonus attraction, Katy Cruizers Car Club will have on display over 20 collector cars at the north end of the field.
This event and car display will be held at
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Media Type: “Is the goal now for you to retire with Tom Brady still serving as your starting quarterback?”
Bill Belichick: “Yeah, the goal right now is to beat Denver.”
It was the type of semi-serious, off-the-wall question that routinely gets tossed at professional coaches and managers, partly as a way to break up the daily monotony of X’s and O’s but also as a thinly veiled attempt to elicit a funny sound bite to drop into a TV package.
Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona was sometimes pretty good with these questions, as they gave him a chance to talk about such things as life in the minor leagues, or how he was a really, really bad player, even though he was actually a pretty good player until he kept getting hurt.
Doc Rivers, former coach of the Celtics, knew how to play along. During his Boston years he showed a talent for descriptive anecdotes, as when I once inquired about the derivation of “ubuntu,” a Bantu word from South Africa, loosely defined as “I am because we are.”
Rivers explained he learned the word, which became a theme for the 2007-08 Celtics, from a woman while attending a Marquette University board of trustees meeting . . . held at Alumni Memorial Union . . . during a luncheon . . . fifth floor. It was a sunny day, he said.
As for coach Belichick, he’s typically bored, and often boorish, when these questions are posed. Especially on a Wednesday.
Catch him on a
Article source: http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/steve_buckley/2017/11/buckley_don_t_bet_on_bill_belichick_leaving_patriots_when
Boeing Co.’s decision to boost production of its 787 Dreamliner wasn’t quick or easy, but the aerospace giant’s finance chief said Wednesday it ultimately came down to the plane’s growing strength in the global wide-body market.
“It’s a big decision for the company when we make these rate increases,” Greg Smith, Boeing’s executive vice president and CFO, said during the Baird Global Industrial Conference in Chicago.
The rate increase — to 14 planes a month from 12, split between Boeing assembly sites in North Charleston and Everett, Wash. — was announced in September, but the decision was months in the making.
Smith said the process involved examining “the entire supply chain, our own efficiency, what capital we need and when and, ultimately, the marketplace — is the marketplace strong enough to support 14 a month?”
With more than 600 deliveries in fewer than six years of service and close to 700 Dreamliner orders in the production backlog, Smith said Boeing finally had “the confidence to be able to go to 14.”
He said next year’s introduction of the 330-passenger 787-10 — the largest and most fuel-efficient member of the Dreamliner family — into commercial service “will again draw more demand.” The “Dash 10” will be built exclusively in North Charleston because of its size, and Singapore Airlines is scheduled to take the first delivery next spring.
The 787-10 will make its public debut next week at the Dubai Airshow, one of the world’s largest aviation events, with one of the North Charleston-made test planes on display for potential buyers. There
