Model Airplanes

GREENSBORO — Sometimes the view from 10,000 feet looks different than the reality when the plane lands.

Last summer, local high school graduates Juwan Wrenn and Eddie Jarrett flew to Washington to participate in a “Beating the Odds” summit at the White House, all costs paid by Say Yes, a national nonprofit that promised “last dollar” tuition scholarships to qualifying graduates of Guilford County Schools.

They participated in promotion of Say Yes and were featured on the program’s website as scholarship recipients. These features illustrated the obstacles each faced and how Say Yes was helping them achieve their dreams.

But Wrenn, Jarrett and their mothers were disappointed by their own results with Say Yes, they shared in interviews. Wrenn received $1,000 this year for college from Say Yes; Jarrett received nothing. Say Yes to Education Guilford confirmed those amounts Tuesday and apologized for incorrectly featuring Jarrett as a scholarship recipient.

Both mothers apparently initially missed a crucial distinction, that the “last dollar” scholarship meant Say Yes planned to pay the remaining gap in tuition at state public schools, after all other financial-aid dollars are first directed toward that cost. At state schools such as UNC Pembroke and N.C. Central, the cost of tuition is just a small fraction of the total price to attend when fees, room and board and insurance are added. Like other graduates, Wrenn and Jarrett may be eligible for scholarships in future years of college, depending on a variety of factors.

Clarnette Jarrett, Eddie’s mother, says a Say Yes staff member

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According to Tecnam, between the aircraft the Pascale Brothers designed and built with Partenavia and Tecnam, more than 7,000 aircraft have been delivered worldwide.

Tecnam Aircraft announced that on March 14, 2017, after a brief illness, Founder, President, and Chief Preliminary Design Officer Luigi Pascale, who was 93 years old, died unexpectedly.

In a statement, nephew and Tecnam CEO Paolo Pascale said “It is with great sadness that we announce today the passing of my uncle prof. Luigi Pascale. He was incredibly proud of TECNAM and all of its employees, and we will all miss him greatly. His drive to excellence, determination, can-do spirit and commitment to our Company will inspire and stay with us always.”

Remembering Luigi Pascale’s Life

The Early Years

Luigi “Gino” Pascale was born in Naples Italy in 1923. Both he and his older brother Giovanni “Nino” Pascale (Paolo’s father, who passed away a number of years previous, was a little over a year older¹) shared a passion for aviation that first showed itself in the form of paper airplanes. In an interview, Luigi provides some more details, remembering he and his brother as “two kids animated by a great passion for the flying machines: the paper planes were the first expression of interest that would inevitably bring us to model aircraft construction.”

He goes on to say that one day, during their high school classes, the aviation magazine L’Aquilone made the rounds among

Article source: https://disciplesofflight.com/remembering-tecnam-founder-luigi-pascale/

By JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company’s flight program will continue.

About two dozen employees were on hand early Tuesday to witness the deflation of California-based Spirit of Innovation.

But shed no tears, blimp fans, you’ll still see a familiar blue-and-gold form floating over your favorite sports event or awards show.

Although the blimp’s replacement, Wingfoot Two, will look about the same when it arrives at Goodyear’s airship base in Carson later this year, it will be a semi-rigid dirigible.

Such aircraft, one of which has already replaced Goodyear’s Florida blimp, have a frame, which means they maintain their shape when the helium is drained. Blimps, on the other hand, go flat. Wingfoot Two, currently operating in Ohio, will be replaced by yet another dirigible when it leaves there for Southern California.

Far more important to Goodyear is that the new airships are faster, quieter, larger, easier to fly and more maneuverable than the blimps it introduced more than 90 years ago. Still, the company plans to keep calling the new models blimps.

“Because a Goodyear Semi-rigid Dirigible doesn’t roll off the tongue,” laughed company airship historian Eddie Ogden.

Crew members Tuesday yanked a rip line to open a section at the top of the blimp’s big gas bag, known as an envelope. It took about two minutes for it to crumple to the ground.

Ogden said Goodyear employees watched the deflation with mixed emotions.

“There were a couple tears

Article source: http://www.waow.com/story/34799120/goodyear-deflates-blimp-but-keeps-familiar-form-in-flight

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Half the fun of malt liquor, or any beer, was the walk up to the store to get it. I looked forward to that nearly as much as I did the beer itself. I’d wait for that horrible sun to descend into that dirty-orange panorama behind the Phoenix skyline before heading out. Best time. That hour before the night lights up. That’s when the heat waned and the neighborhood edges softened. From my place, I’d stroll west down Polk Street to 11th and cut over to my Circle K. A mile and a half round trip.

Now this Circle K was life among the dead, which is why it was my favorite place to go and buy beer. It was the quick fix in a neighborhood where there were no outs. At night its bright fluorescent lights reached out to the middle of Van Buren, offering hope for late-night transience, for the lonely and the reclusive. Hope for the meth-addled prostitutes I’d see whose bodies were long past reclamation, and for the desert-rat day-workers with shot, red eyes who’d stammer through the bell-ringing doors and nod with glee upon discovering that they’d made it before the 1 a.m. cut-off time to purchase Bud Light. It was light for those like me who were taken in by the smell of burnt dogs and fresh coffee and the promise of ice-cold malt liquor, and the existence of at least one other late-night

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