Model Airplanes

Led by Cobb residents Tom Floyd and Richard McLamb, and trailed by the hundreds of other fellow Lockheed Martin employees who helped make the aircraft, the first LM-100J commercial air freighter was rolled out of its hangar in February.

Based on the company’s C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, a tactical military airlifter, the first model of the commercial variant LM-100J is expected to take flight later this year, with the company committed so far to complete about two dozen more. Thomas Wetherall, director of business development for the LM-100J, said the price tag of the aircraft starts around $65 million, depending on specifications.

“We have orders and letters of intent for 25 aircraft,” Wetherall said. “The first purchaser of the aircraft, especially in the commercial world, to be honest doesn’t want their name (out there), because it’s a very competitive market, but we’re looking forward to in the not too distant future to be able to identify who that is and brag about it.”

Wetherall said the LM-100J line alone employs about 1,500 people at Lockheed’s Marietta facility — which employs about 5,000 in all — where the company held a ceremony in February to commemorate the aircraft’s rollout, with employees “walking” the airlifter out of the building where it was built.

The LM-100J is capable of everything that the C-130J does, Wetherall said, from humanitarian relief to oil spill response, firefighting and more. Other potential uses include medevac/air ambulance and VIP transport.

He said the new commercial aircraft will be aimed at those who currently

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Mar 3, 2017

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Photos and text by Kenneth K. Lam
On an unusually warm early February morning, about half dozen members of the Harford County Radio Control Modelers (HCRCM) gather at the club’s rural flying field to practice their passion and crafts: the flying of radio controlled electric drones to 1/3 scale jet fueled airplanes.

Members of the Harford County Radio Control Modelers (HCRCM) strive to advance the RC hobby by building and flying scale model airplanes. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Arthur Pearce, of Bel Air, gives the thumb-up after his model plane landed without incident. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)

Arthur Pearce, of Bel Air, transports three 1/3 scale model airplanes with a race car trailer.

Article source: http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2017/03/model-planes-soar-in-harford-county/

The Rapid City Journal offers obituaries as a way to inform friends throughout the area about the death of a person. Obituaries also offer families the opportunity to provide a final public memorial.

The Journal offers two kinds of obituaries:
A standard obituary will list the name, age, residence of the deceased; date of death; branch of military service; and funeral arrangements. Obituaries for veterans will display an American flag. There is no charge for this obituary as long as there is a current local connection to our area.

A memorial obituary, for which there is a charge, allows family or friends to fashion the obituary to their particular specifications. In addition to information for the standard obituary, you may add information about the person’s life, work, community activities, awards or honors, special interests or anything else you feel is important. Obituary information must be provided by the funeral home handling arrangements.

The name and city of the funeral home in charge of arrangements must be included for publication of any obituary. The Journal does not take obituaries over the telephone. The best way to submit an obituary is to have the funeral home email it to obits@rapidcityjournal.com.
If you have questions about the Journal’s obituary policy, you may call obituary desk at 394-8420 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Article source: http://rapidcityjournal.com/obits/veterans/meyer-james-a/article_f439acb8-05c7-5021-809c-fef6c48e1a2f.html