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Jack passed away peacefully on 19 June 2017 at his home in Ridgecrest at the age of 92. Jack was born 26 September 1924 in Santa Ana California. He spent his childhood growing up in Long Beach California. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941 as an Aviation-Engine Mechanic. He spent the first few years sailing the world’s oceans keeping the Pacific Fleet’s Aircraft mission-ready serving aboard the USS Copahee, (CVE-12) and USS Bennington, (CV-20), during WWII. He enjoyed such Duty Stations throughout his Naval career as the Philippines, Guam, Corpus Christi, Texas, NAS North Island, San Diego and Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, California, retiring from active duty in 1961.
He continued his love of Naval Aviation in support of numerous projects as a civilian in the Aircraft Department, Targets Division at China Lake, retiring in 1979 as a Senior Machinists Model Maker, (Supervisor).
He was a dedicated family man who truly loved his boys. He taught them at an early age the discipline of maintaining and servicing all things mechanical, a legacy which continues to carry on today. His love of the outdoors took him on many family vacations over the years from Mexico to Canada and beyond.
He enjoyed such hobbies as photography, building and flying model airplanes, building custom furniture, restoring antique furniture, rock hounding and fine lapidary work along with spinning custom made parts down on his lathe. One of his favorite projects was the complete restoration of a 1923 Ford
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DUFFIN – James B. Of Lockport, husband of Katherine Kreher Duffin, entered into rest on June 27, 2017 at home. He was born in Buffalo, NY on August 1, 1929, the son of the late William and Marie Bourque Duffin. James served in the U.S. Army for eight years, then retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves as a technician after 30 years. He was a member of St. Bridget’s for 40 years and enjoyed model airplanes and spending time with his grandchildren. He was the father of James B. (Michelle) Duffin Jr., Ann (John) Krafft, Robert (Kimberly) Duffin, Mary (William) Clark, Andrew Duffin and Joseph Duffin; also survived by nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Family and friends may call at the RUTLAND-CORWIN FUNERAL HOME, INC., 2670 Main St., Newfane, NY, on Friday from 2-4 and 6-8 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday at 10 AM in St. Brendan on the Lake (Wilson Site), 359 Lake St., Wilson, NY. Entombment will be held in Queen of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to Newfane Community Food Pantry, 3455 Ewings Rd., Newfane, NY 14108, Niagara Hospice, 4675 Sunset Dr., Lockport, NY 14094 or Roswell Park Cancer Institute, www.roswellpark.org, would be appreciated by the family. Please visit www.rutland-corwin.com to send the family a condolence.
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Logan Riley, 19, took his first solo flight in January. His goal: becoming a commercial airline pilot after college.
PERRY TWP. It wasn’t model airplanes, action movies or video games that attracted a young Logan Riley to aviation. He caught the flying bug a bit later in life, as a sophomore at Perry High School.
Riley said an aerospace-engineering course at school that taught him about aviation history, science and mathematics helped to steer him toward the friendly skies.
“I had Lego planes as a kid, but really, it was school (that piqued my interest),” he said. “I was not really into planes until my sophomore or junior year. That’s when I decided I’d work on getting a pilot’s license.”
On May 23 — just days before graduating from high school — Riley, 19, earned a set of wings via a private pilot’s license, which is a major step in proceeding closer to his overall target of garnering a commercial license. The best part about flying, he said, is sharing a ride with family members and friends.
“I like flying other people and letting them have a new experience,” said Riley, who’s slated to attend Bowling Green State University this fall, where he plans to become an aviation and flight technology major.
Attaining his private flying license wasn’t a cinch, Riley said, adding that he would attend flight school courses after regular high school hours and on weekends. He also squeezed in a few lessons last
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Immigrants’ stories to the Holy Land will live on thanks due to the generosity and foresight of Denver resident Jack Grynberg and his gift of $1.3 million to Jewish National Fund’s Atlit Detention Camp. Grynberg’s gift will be used for a new exhibit within a C46 airplane that will interactively tell the story of clandestine Jewish immigration by air, allowing visitors to feel as if they themselves were making the secret journey to Israel.
Immigration is a topic dear to Grynberg’s heart. At age 15, he and his family arrived in British Mandate Palestine with a British visa in 1946. He reflects on his immigration as a smooth and easy transition, as the British assisted the family with settling into their new life and home. Upon arrival, Grynberg, at 16, joined the Irgun and fought in the liberation of Jaffa as well as Yehudiya, (now the Ben Guirion Airport) during the War of Independence for which he was later decorated twice with medals from the State of Israel. Grynberg also served in the United States Army Research and Development Command specializing in Soviet Radioactive warfare. “I know how fortunate my family was to be welcomed into Palestine with open arms and recognize that others were not so lucky. This is why I want to tell the story of those whose immigration story included internment at Atlit,” said Grynberg in response to why this project is special to him.
The struggle for many began in 1939 when the British issued the “White Paper,”
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The speed of sound is 761 miles per hour. When a plane eclipses this speed, it creates shock waves that emit a loud cracking sound, called a sonic boom.
In February 2016, NASA teamed up with Lockheed Martin to try to fix this pesky problem, aiming to engineer a “low boom” X-plane that would pave the way for supersonic passenger travel. The team has now confirmed that the preliminary design for the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) is capable of breaking the sound barrier with nothing more than a muffled “thump.”
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“Managing a project like this is all about moving from one milestone to the next,” said preliminary design manager David Richwine. “Our strong partnership with Lockheed Martin helped get us to this point. We’re now one step closer to building an actual X-plane.”
Whenever the X-plane does get built, its impact will be measured with flights over U.S. cities, giving regulators a sense of what measures would need to be put in place if the technology were to be used for commercial air travel. This would involve conducting ground tests as well as surveying citizens about their reactions to the “soft thump” the X-plane will make as it breaches the sound barrier. Such tests, however, are not expected to be conducted until 2021.
In February, a 9 percent scale model
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