Lynn Lamont Bateman Jr.

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Writer

1936-2017

Dr. Lynn Lamont Bateman Jr. — “Mont” or “Doc” as he was affectionately called by his family and friends passed away peacefully with Joan, his wife of 57 years, at his side. Lynn was joyfully reunited with his daughter Melissa and his son Matthew on the morning of October 19, 2017 after a noble and courageous decade long fight against Leukemia. Doc was 80 years old.

Lynn, son of Lynn Lamont Bateman, Sr. and Helen Louise Schmidt, a daughter of German converts to the LDS Church and immigrants to the United States, was born December 29,1936. Lynn grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah enjoying outdoor activities with his father Lynn Sr. who took him fishing, camping and hunting at a very early age. Over the course of his life, this passion for the outdoors fueled numerous experiences and outdoor adventures with those he loved. Beginning with his father and extending to his family and friends, Lynn was a true adventurer who created memories that will live on for numerous generations of family.

After his father’s untimely death in 1951, Lynn moved to Panguitch, Utah upon his mother’s marriage to Lars W. Peterson and then shortly thereafter to Spanish Fork, Utah. His new step-father introduced Lynn to a new lifelong passion — ranching in Boulder, Utah. Beginning in High School Lynn and his dear friend Congressman Wayne Owens ran cattle and horses in the wilds of southern Utah which ultimately led to a family ranch at the base of Sugarloaf Mountain in

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At miniature fly-in, a model of fun

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Writer

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Airbus’s ACJ318

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Writer

Want your very own late-model twinjet airliner? If so, the Airbus ACJ318 should be on your list. It features luxury seating for 18 and sleeping space for up to 11 of these passengers in a cavernous cabin that measures 70 feet long, 12 feet wide, and seven feet tall. It also has a seats-full transcontinental/transatlantic range of 3,800 nautical miles at speeds up to 470 knots. And you can buy it for the price of a new super-midsize business jet.

How is it that you can get all this airplane for such a ­comparatively small amount of money? Bad luck, mostly. You see, it’s fairly commonplace for the world’s two major passenger jet airframers—Airbus and Boeing—to stretch existing designs to create new aircraft model derivatives with larger capacities and more range. You can trace the trend back to the early 1960s. The formula is a relatively low-cost, low-risk way to bring a new product to market quickly. What is less common is for the “majors” to shrink an existing design to fill a perceived market niche.

Both McDonnell Douglas (which Boeing absorbed in 1997) and Europe’s Airbus hatched plans to downsize their existing single-aisle twinjets to leverage perceived opportunities in China and those spawned by U.S. airline deregulation, which brought jet service
to an increasing number of smaller markets. But the Chinese aspirations didn’t pan out and the American dream was blown away by the emerging regional jet tsunami and the major airlines’ addiction to the hub-and-spoke airport feeder system, now the

Article source: https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/airbuss-acj318

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Boeing’s Machinists and robots start building first 777X, but challenges remain

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Writer

Deep inside Boeing’s Everett widebody-jet manufacturing complex Monday afternoon, about 300 workers looked on as an orange-and-blue robot lowered its drilling end over a long, U-shaped beam of carbon fiber composite, drilled a hole, then inserted a fastener with a soft drumming rat-ta-tat.

With that, Boeing began building the first 777X flight test airplane, destined to fly early in 2019.

The automated technology is such a revolution that Jason Clark, vice president of 777 operations, on Monday called it “a change in the history of how we manufacture.”

This change is proving difficult. Production of the current model 777 in Everett, which has been radically transformed and automated to accommodate the new 777X version, has run into trouble recently, a Boeing spokeswoman acknowledged in an interview Monday.

Still, the day’s milestone attests that the 777X project, central to the future of jet-making in this region, is moving forward.

To win the 777X for Everett, Washington state agreed to shell out $8.7 billion in tax breaks over 16 years, and the Machinists — after a bitter struggle in the winter of 2013 — had to sign a long-term labor contract that froze their traditional pensions.

In return for those tax incentives and the labor concessions, the

Article source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-machinists-and-robots-start-building-first-777x-but-challenges-remain/

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Can This Garmin Cockpit Defend Ballistic Missile Fields? – Avionics

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Writer

The Garmin G5000H in a UH-60A cockpit. Photo courtesy of Global Aviation Solutions

For a while, Sikorsky and its HH-60U Black Hawk, and the Boeing/Leonardo team with its MH-139, have been at the forefront of the U.S. Air Force’s UH-1N replacement competition. But as the deadline for proposals passed mid-September, there was another contending aircraft in the running. Driven by a customized Garmin G5000H avionics suite, Sierra Nevada Corp.’s “Force Hawk” is also in contention to become the new helicopter the Air Force uses to protect intercontinental ballistic missile fields, among other mission sets.

Without a large sales or marketing effort surrounding its bid aircraft, Sierra Nevada Corp. went generally unnoticed for the year-plus it was developing its proposal. The systems integrator’s Force Hawk features a Garmin G5000H avionics suit with high resolution displays, a glass touchscreen interface, and access to remote audio and intercom flight management system.

The Air Force had originally wanted to sole-source the Huey replacement contract to Sikorsky for Black Hawks. The contract only became competitive when met with congressional opposition. It isn’t an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) like Sikorsky, Boeing or Leonardo, but Sierra Nevada does not view itself as an underdog, according to its director of business development, Jack Bailey.

“At face value, we looked at it from the perspective that if [the solicitation] does best suit a Black Hawk, it’s a matter of whose Black Hawk,” Bailey told Avionics.

Not every UH-60 model is the best solution for the Air Force, he continued. That’s why Force

Article source: http://www.aviationtoday.com/2017/10/23/can-garmin-cockpit-defend-ballistic-missile-fields/

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Grammy Awards: See How the Statue Is Made

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Writer

Have you ever wondered how a Grammy award is made? Well, wonder no longer as John Billings, the “Grammy Man” from Ridgway, Colorado, is here to show us how it’s done.

Billings, who has been crafting the iconic statue for 40 years, started out as an apprentice to the original Grammy maker and took over for him upon his death.

In the video, which can be viewed above, Billings walks us through the process of creating each statue, from filling the molds with a patent trademark metal called grammium to gold plating and assembling the finished pieces.

Billings explains that when the first Grammy came out in 1958, there was a contest on a radio station to name the award. A lady from Texas suggested “Grammy” because it “looked like the old gramophone that her grandmother had when they would play records, and they called it the Grammy.”

When asked what he loves the most about making the Grammy awards, Billings shares: “Since I was a little kid, I spent most of my time building model cars and airplanes, and I’ve just found this wonderful niche of making something that is recognized around the world, and it’s still made in the old school fashion.”

“When you see someone at the awards ceremony holding it up,” he continues, “it’s something that will change their life, and it’s something that fulfills mine.”

Article source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grammys/8007056/grammy-awards-how-statue-is-made-video

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Singapore Signs Firm Order for 39 Boeing Widebodies

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Writer

Singapore Airlines has signed a firm order with Boeing for twenty 777-9s and nineteen 787-10s after settling on plans for fleet growth and route development over the next decade, the airline announced Monday. The signing took place at the White House in Washington D.C., during a ceremony witnessed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. It marked the finalization of an agreement announced in February as a letter of intent.

Along with the firm orders for 39 airplanes, SIA also took options for six more airplanes of each model. Boeing values the firm orders at $13.8 billion based on list prices.

SIA said it plans to use the 777-9s for long-haul routes. It expects delivery of the new widebodies starting in its 2021/2022 fiscal year. It expects to use the 787-10s on medium-range routes, primarily in Asia. Those airplanes come due for delivery starting in SIA’s 2020/2021 fiscal year.

SIA became the launch customer for the 787-10 in 2013, when it placed an order for 30. It plans to become the first operator of the type when it takes the first production 787-10 in the first half of next year.

Boeing rolled out the first Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-equipped 787-10 built for Singapore at its final assembly facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, in early October.

A straightforward 18-foot stretch of the 787-9, the 787-10 retains 95 percent design and build commonality with its smaller sibling while adding some 40 seats in exchange for range. Boeing

Article source: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2017-10-23/singapore-signs-firm-order-39-boeing-widebodies

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