Robotics team members, from left, Riley Scherer, Hunter Nixdorf and Tucker Adkins talk about the surveillance drone they built. The styrofoam airplane can fly for nearly an hour while shooting video and was designed to disrupt poaching.
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In their fifth week of training, women hired as flight attendants at Emirates Airline spend a day in Dubai with Pamela Mizzi. A makeup artist from Malta who spent 12 years in the sky herself, Mizzi greets the students in a windowless instruction space about 20 feet across, lined on three sides by mirrors divided into vanities by bright roundels of light, like an old-timey dressing room. Her job is to teach the trainees how Emirates expects them to look.
Female cabin crew, referred to invariably as “girls,” are to tie their hair back in tight buns, preferably secured by a scrunchie in Emirates-brand red. For makeup, a seven-step process is recommended, starting with foundation and concealer, then moving on to lipstick, also in preauthorized shades of crimson. At the back of Mizzi’s classroom are two display racks of Emirates-approved emollients for “body shaping,” “firming,” “wrinkle control,” and “luminosity.”
“We have standards in regards to nail care,” Mizzi says. The same is true for weight. If a crew member looks too heavy, his or her superiors are to report their suspicions to a central fitness and nutrition department. “And they follow up,” she says. Little escapes scrutiny. By the time crew members reach Mizzi’s classroom, they have moved into Emirates-managed apartments with Emirates-imposed curfews, travel to work in Emirates-branded minibuses, and see Emirates-employed doctors at in-house Emirates clinics.
The airline, which is based in Dubai and owned by its government, has become the world’s largest long-haul carrier by never relaxing its grip—on employees, on
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The first two F-35 Adir Stealth warplanes delivered a month ago to the Israeli air force have already performed astonishingly in a few flights in Israeli skies. Their advanced systems are being studied by the pilots and technical crews ahead of the arrival of 38 more F-35s in the coming years. The air force, Ministry of Defense, and US arms companies are now preparing for the next deal, which is also projected to total several billion dollars.
The type of planes to be procured may be decided during the coming year, or during the following year at the latest. The selection will be either an improved version of the Boeing F-15 or a special model of the F-35, Lockheed Martin’s flagship plane.
If Israel again selects the Stealth fighter, it will have a third squadron of this 5G aircraft. These planes will probably have capabilities lacking in the F-35s already ordered by Israel from Lockheed Martin: the ability to take off on a runway of only several hundred meters and to land vertically, provided that their fuel tanks do not have much fuel and the planes are not carrying munitions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes this model, which will enable the air force to operate even under one of Israel’s nightmare scenarios, in which air force bases are bombarded by hundreds of rockets sowing destruction on the runways and seriously affecting the ability of warplanes to take off from them.
On the other hand, Boeing is already preparing to go after the billions of
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In a cluttered fabrication lab stuffed with the smells of polyurethane and wood, USC’s AeroDesign Team discusses its approach to this year’s remote-controlled model aircraft.
Wyatt Sadler ’92, the team’s industry adviser, struggles to hold his tongue as he hears them leaning toward a design choice that was made — and didn’t work — several years ago.
As a founding member of the team, Sadler has seen it all. He strongly believes in promoting the independence of students, allowing them to make their own decisions and learn their own lessons. However, that doesn’t mean he won’t guide them in the right direction.
“I try and let them do their own thing in terms of the design, but I definitely try and steer them toward or away from things,” Sadler said. “It’s a revolving organization. Every four years, the kids go away and so you end up learning the same lessons.”
His 27 years of experience with the team makes him confident that the Trojans will be ready for the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) “Design Build Fly” competition in Tucson, Ariz., this April, which they have attended for the last two decades, earning a position in the top 10 percent nearly every year.
“The first year we entered, we won handily,” Sadler said. “It was how many laps you could do and we flew 15 laps. The second-place team flew three.”
In 1990, Sadler was one of just three students on the inaugural team run by Ron Blackwelder, a professor
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From building model airplanes as a child to making a stained glass version of Michelangelo’s Pieta as an adult, Joseph “Guzzy” Gozelanczyk spent his life working with his hands and beautifying the world around him.
He tried nearly every art and craft, but designing and making stained glass windows, lamps and other decor became his main form of expression, family members said.
“He really found his stride with that,” said his brother, Steven Gozelanczyk of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
“He tried anything to do with art,” said son Jeffrey Gozelanczyk of Saltsburg. “Anything that had to do with making things look nice.”
Joseph S. Gozelanczyk of Saltsburg died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, at Latrobe Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was 79.
He was born in 1937 in the mining community of Slickville, Salem Township. A son of the late Stephen and Mary Gozelanczyk, he was proud to grow up in Slickville and was a member of St. Sylvester Church, Slickville American Legion Post 18, the Harwick Polish Club and the Nowrytown Sportsman Club.
As a boy, Mr. Gozelanczyk joined his older brothers and other kids in working for a “huckster” who used a large truck as a mobile farmer’s market on weekends that visited mining communities. The boys would knock on doors to take orders, run back to the truck and return with baskets of fruits and vegetables, his brother said.
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