Model Airplanes

Hi, I’m Christina in Beijing.

It’s almost impossible to interview Chinese livestreamers in person without being filmed yourself. After all, novelty is the spice of broadcast.

When I met him in a café in Beijing, 24-year-old Xu Jiafeng was wearing a white hoodie and jeans, and pointing his iPhone straight at me. “I’m being interviewed by foreign media, and this is Kexin,” he explained, using my Chinese name. I hadn’t consented, but there wasn’t much to do except smile and wave to however many of his 23,000-plus followers were tuned in at that time.

Xu has a day job working at an internet company in Beijing, but he also livestreams for 12 hours a week on Blued, a social and dating app for gay men. Xu films himself chatting, singing, and cooking, and occasional outtakes from his travels, including a recent trip to Thailand. “My fans want to see me happy and positive, and they want to see something new.” He’s charming and articulate, and in person a tad melancholy. “You must give the impression that you are so happy, even if when you turn off the livestream, you are not always that happy.”

He says he can earn as much as 60,000 yuan a month ($8,830) through virtual tips, but that’s the high end; like most aspects of the gig economy, the income isn’t stable. He’s not planning to quit his day job. “It’s good to have colleagues,” he adds. But he enjoys the online affirmation, extra money, and chance to dole out dating advice. “My

Article source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-05/livestreaming-in-china-heads-toward-a-blowout

A recently-discovered photograph is turning the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance on its head, leading a handful of experts to believe the celebrated aviator and women’s rights role model actually survived her final flight — and was captured by the Japanese.

Shortly after midnight on July 2, 1937, Earhart climbed into her Lockheed Electra at an airfield in Papua New Guinea and took off into the dark, muggy night.

Together with her navigator Fred Noonan, the 39-year-old pilot flew east toward Howland Island, a tiny sliver of land in the central Pacific Ocean, on the final leg of her boldest aeronautical adventure to date – circumnavigating the globe along the equator in a marathon 29,000-mile flight.

And then suddenly, she vanished.

“Gas is running low,” Earhart said in what’s believed to be her final radio broadcast to a Coast Guard cutter assisting with her navigation. “Have been unable to reach you by radio. We’re flying at 1,000 feet.”

The mystery of what happened to Earhart and Noonan has gone unanswered for 80 years.

Now Shawn Henry, a former executive assistant director of the FBI – and the History Channel – have come forward with the two-hour documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence that premieres on Sunday, July 9 at 9 p.m. ET and attempts to answer this question.

Armed with a recently-discovered photograph purportedly taken of Earhart days after she crash-landed on a remote South Pacific atoll, Henry

Article source: http://people.com/human-interest/does-this-photo-prove-amelia-earhart-survived-her-final-flight/

Teen Aviation participants, from left, Nick Stambaugh, Jeffrey Northcutt and Pablo Quinonez show off a piece of rudder that they assembled.

Article source: http://tucson.com/news/local/new-group-building-interest-among-students-in-aviation-careers/article_b8d3169c-1af1-5910-a5a6-22750ffe09a2.html