Model Airplanes

Ken Cairns, from Berwick, brought his three-year-old grandson, Lucas Cairns, from Timberlea, to the event.

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The Air Force, which has been looking for ways to lower the cost of new Air Force One planes, agreed Friday to buy two Boeing 747-8 jumbo jets that were ordered but never delivered to a now-defunct Russian airline.

Two people close to the matter confirmed earlier this week that the Air Force and Boeing were in talks about the two planes that were still in the company’s inventory. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal hadn’t been publicly announced.

The contract details, including costs, were not provided on Friday. But President Donald Trump has complained about the high cost of new presidential planes, even threatening at one point to cancel the order.

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“This award is a significant step towards ensuring an overall affordable program,” said Darlene Costello, the Air Force’s principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition. “As we move forward, we will continue to seek and implement cost savings opportunities.”

The list price for a Boeing 747-8 is $386.8 million, according to Boeing’s website. It was not clear whether that price would apply to planes that are already built and sitting in Boeing’s inventory. Modifications to accommodate security, communications and other presidential requirements would have to be done, and would increase the final price.

Last December, Trump complained on Twitter about the cost of new Air Force One planes. “Costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!” the president-elect tweeted.

A month later, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg met with Trump and

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Over the next few months, high school students will design an airplane cockpit seat, and produce it on a 3-D printer, from inside their North Charleston classroom.

R.B. Stall High School is one of six high schools in the state participating in a pilot program to introduce aerospace engineering to students.

Some high schools already offer aerospace or engineering courses. But this four-course curriculum is more robust, said Adrianne Beasley, aerospace initiatives director for the S.C. Council on Competitiveness, an industry advocacy group.

Educators and industry leaders say they hope the new program will interest more students in aerospace careers and will set them up for further education or training.

The state’s growing aerospace sector demands more workers. Boeing S.C. builds three Dreamliner derivatives in North Charleston, employing more than 7,000 people at its Lowcountry operations. Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin modifies and repairs military and civilian aircraft in Greenville County. Suppliers throughout the state continually expand, such as GKN Aerospace in Orangeburg County and Safran in Ladson, both of which make parts for Boeing jets.

The new aerospace curriculum introduces students to the diversity of aerospace careers, such as CNC machinist, engineer, aviation mechanic, airframe assembler and astronaut.

The courses are for students who want to learn how airplanes and spacecraft are designed, built and flown. Students need a strong math background; algebra is often a prerequisite.

Stall Principal Jeremy Carrick said the curriculum can help students decide whether to pursue a career in aerospace.

“Finding out what you do not want to

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Found text — from book spines, scrap paper, and more — turns up in pieces like “Pushing Open All the Windows,”

Abbie Read has a passion for found objects — and books and paper and paintings. This month, she’s bringing together her eclectic interests in a years-in-the-making installation in Brunswick.

By Joel Crabtree
Photos courtesy of the artist

Every morning when Appleton artist Abbie Read walks into her studio, eager to finish some work she left in progress the night before, she’s surrounded by her collection of found objects she’s amassed over the years: a basket of brightly painted bocce balls (made, unusually, of clay); antique tools, the uses of which are hard to discern; an old model airplane suspended by a window; a couple of weathered bird feeders; a turtle shell; an old-time sailor statuette; a wagon wheel; skulls of cattle and other animals. A visitor could spend hours inspecting the items, eyeing the craftsmanship and feeling the weight, like an archaeologist investigating the artifacts of an ancient and strange civilization, wondering, “What the heck is that?”

“The collections feed my art and feed me,” Read says, glancing around at the hundreds of items, with thousands of years of history among them. “And that’s a big part of who I am as an artist.”

Like many of her pieces, Abbie Read’s “Obelisk” is made from stitched-together book covers.

Read’s latest exhibition, Library, consists of a single, prodigious work of the same name, a 280-square-foot wall installation up this month at Brunswick’s

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