Model Airplanes

By Aaron Little Santa Rosa Press Gazette

Editor’s Note: This continues our Celebrate Community series on Santa Rosa County nonprofit organizations that improve residents’ quality of life.
MILTON — Northwest Florida Modelers Inc. seeks to expand the practice of radio-controlled model aircraft building and flying in Santa Rosa County through both public display and education.
NFMI members — who meet 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at 1900 J.E. Hall Center, 30 E. Texar Road, Pensacola — fly radio-controlled airplanes, helicopters and quad-copters also known as drones. Their aircraft, which come from kits, operate on electricity, fuel and some craft have turbojet engines running on real jet fuel.
“There are small airplanes that weigh less than a pound and would fit in your lap, up to airplanes weighing 50 pounds and up, with wingspans as large as 10 feet … Probably about half of our club flies scale models (scaled-down replicas of real aircraft), and the rest fly models that are designed as radio-controlled airplanes, with no full-size airplane equivalent,” club member Patrick Niven said. “It isn’t uncommon to see a member come to the field with a WWII fighter, a helicopter, a WWI biplane, a glider and a jet and fly them all in one day.”
The group formed in early 1970, flying in Bagdad Field in Milton and then Ellyson Field in Pensacola. The club lost those two sites due to changes by the Navy, but with growth over the

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It was the great ice cream caper.

During the early morning hours on a Tuesday in late August 1937, three O’Fallon boys, all about 14 years old, conspired to steal ice cream from Mel Hemmen’s shop on West First Street.

Knowing downtown was patrolled by William Sanspeur, the night shift police officer, they waited for him to go off his beat before they struck. Two of the boys made it to the rendezvous and succeeded in lifting several bricks of ice cream. They went to the BO park, now the parking lot along First Street between Lincoln and Cherry, to enjoy the spoils. But not wanting to leave out the third boy, who apparently had overslept, they hid what was left of the ice cream in some bushes at the park and went to retrieve him at his house.

On returning to the park, however, they discovered the ice cream was gone. It turned out that Mel Hemmen had watched the whole thing and stole back the ice cream when the two boys went to get the third. All three were given a stern lecture by Deputy Sheriff and O’Fallonite John E. Tiley.

75 years ago Feb. 12, 1942

Work has begun in the manual training department of the high school on the construction of 50 model airplanes for the Navy Department. Similar planes are being constructed by many schools the country over. Their use by the Navy is for instruction purposes for future flyers.

50 years agoArticle source: http://www.bnd.com/news/local/community/ofallon-progress/article131211579.html

Sandy Jensen, left, education director of Coastal Georgia Historical Society, shows a three-dimensional model of the St. Simons Lighthouse to Shirley and Roger Kalter of Ponce Inlet, Fla., inside the lighthouse’s museum on Tuesday.

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As per media giants, Bloomberg and Reuters , leading commercial aircraft maker The Boeing CompanyBA has received an order for 39 wide-body airplanes from Singapore Airlines Ltd. According to Bloomberg , Singapore Airlines placed the order amid a battle with Chinese and Middle Eastern carriers.

Details of the Deal

Value of the airplanes at current list prices comes to nearly $13.8 billion. However, it goes without saying that the carrier, the biggest long-distance one in Southeast Asia, will surely enjoy a substantial discount on this amount.

As per sources, Singapore Airlines intends to purchase 20 long-range 777-9 jets, the latest model of Boeing’s 777 with a seating capacity of 406. Notably, the choice was made over rival Airbus Group SE’s EADSY plan to build a stretched version of the A350 aircraft by increasing the capacity to 400 seats, but ultimately delayed in taking a firm decision on the same. The carrier also intends to buy at least 19 787-10 jets, the longest Dreamliner model of Boeing.

Boeing expects to start the deliveries of these jets by the end of Mar 2021. Further, Singapore Airlines has options to buy six more of each of the two models, as per the terms of this agreement, as the carrier said to Bloomberg .

Reason for the Order

Singapore Airlines’ profits have been declining since the last two quarters and therefore the carrier was under pressure to cut costs. As a result, it had been in search of fuel-efficient aircraft to replace aging

Article source: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/boeing-ba-wins-order-for-39-jets-from-singapore-airlines-cm745403