Alfred Hagen in his Hagen Construction warehouse in Bensalem on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, with the Budd BB-1 Pioneer plane that he is restoring. The plane was on display in front of the Franklin Institute for 82 years before moving into Hagen’s warehouse, where it will be cleaned up and restored before returning to Philadelphia.
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ONTARIO — Cheryl Cruson has co-owned Oregon Trail Hobbies with her husband, Dale Cruson, since 1984.
Known at the time as Horizon Hobbies, and situated next door to their Ontario Pipe Supply shop, Cheryl Cruson and her husband didn’t quite expect the hobby store to evolve into what it has today.
“Dale has always been interested in flying model airplanes,” Cheryl Cruson said about why the business was started in the first place. Unable to find the exact items he was looking for, the duo decided to open up their own hobby store.
When the Silk Outlet closed its doors on South Oregon Street, Horizon Hobbies moved to the location and renamed itself Oregon Trail Hobbies. The reason for the name change was simple.
It’s located on the Oregon Trail and it’s a hobby store, Cheryl Cruson said.
That was about seven years ago.
Cheryl Cruson said that as a hobby store, “You have to stay up on what’s current.”
Toys are constantly evolving, especially now in the digital age, she said. To stay on top of trends, the Crusons go to a hobby conference every two years in Las Vegas. The conference is hosted by the National Retail Hobby Stores Association Inc.
The couple watches the trends, then adapts their store product to fit the need.
For example, one of the new trends in recent years is drones, which is something that Oregon Trail Hobbies carries.
“The technology has changed so much since 1984,” she said.
The hobby store holds an enormous and eclectic supply of goods, ranging from speciality
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A lifelong passion can be sparked by anything.
For WALTER G. VINCENTI, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics, the spark was lit during a visit to a movie theater.
“In 1927, I was at a Saturday afternoon movie for children,” Vincenti explained. “In those days, during the movie, if there was something important in the world, they would come on the screen with a printed slide telling you what had happened.
“In the middle of the Saturday afternoon movie, a printed slide came on the screen saying, ‘Charles Lindbergh has just landed in Paris,’ and we all stood up and cheered,” Vincenti told an interviewer working with a NASA oral history project.
“Then I got interested in building model airplanes,” Vincenti continued. “From the time I was 10 years old, I built model airplanes and got more and more interested in aeronautics.”
Vincenti’s passion and contributions to aeronautics were recently recognized with the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for lifetime achievements in the advancement of aeronautics. He is the sixth Guggenheim Medal award winner from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford School of Engineering.
The 99-year-old earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at Stanford in 1938 and his master’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1940. He was a research scientist with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), working at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field until he joined the Stanford faculty in 1957. He co-founded Stanford’s Program in Values, Technology
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The event at Frederick Municipal Airport had humble beginnings as a motorcycle rally between friends, said Mike Woods, a Harley-Davidson Road King rider and the NACC event manager. “A few of us were talking about a ride and a place to flip a few burgers and then we said, ‘Hey, what if we added airplanes and what if we added cars?’”
Woods said that having the NACC was a wonderful asset and inviting the community to the airport was a logical next step. When someone volunteered a contact with the Clustered Spires British Car Club, “the event took on a life of its own.”
Tabitha May, a Pan American DC-3 recognized at the 2016 EAA AirVenture will be an attention-grabber in addition to an aerobatic Nanchang, a sporty Van’s Aircraft RV-4, helicopters, Cessnas, Beechcrafts, and other aircraft.
John Hamilton, a classic car enthusiast who owns five vehicles built from the early 1960s to the 1980s, said he would “bring all of them,” including a pair of 1962 Cadillacs with their swoopy fins and chrome grills, plus a friend’s 1931 Model A Roadster from the Golden Age.
On the Roadster, “everything is manual—the brakes, steering, and transmission,” said Hamilton, AOPA vice president of information technology. “With a maximum speed of 40 mph and tires not very wide, it makes driving a little scary on today’s roads. You play the Ooga horn and and it’s fun to watch people turn their heads. Kids today have never seen a car like this and have no idea
Article source: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/october/20/wings-n-wheels-set-for-take-off
When Mark Harris started Axiom all the way back in 2000, he identified a problem that many Biglaw associates probably still encounter on a day to day basis: no one is happy. Clients aren’t happy because they are paying exorbitant prices due to constantly rising hourly rates and attorneys aren’t happy because of the quality of work and a nonexistent work-life balance. I remember having a conversation with a special counsel in early 2011, just a few months in to my stint in Biglaw, and asking him how the Biglaw firm model could possibly be sustainable. Who needed these fancy offices, personal secretaries and the other inflated costs of Biglaw firms? Why weren’t clients demanding leaner more efficient model and why wasn’t someone building this already?
Somebody was.
It turns out that Mark had identified this exact issue a good ten years earlier when he was but a baby lawyer at Davis Polk. Together with partner Alec Guettel, he set out on a mission to transform the legal services industry. I recently caught up with Mark by phone and then had a chance to meet up with him in Axiom’s hip, burnt-orange loft in Soho (I assume the coloring has something to do with the fact that Mark graduated from University of Texas School of Law). In both conversations, Mark emphasized over and over again that legal services is stuck in the artisan and apprentice model, while
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For most of the more than 20,000 expected to take in the Bill and Jo Trent Airshow at the Anderson Regional Airport, the event on Saturday will be free entertainment.
For Jo and Bill Trent, along with other sponsors, it’s an opportunity.
“It’s about sharing a dream I fortunately got to live,” Bill Trent said Wednesday as he described a goal and an eventual career molded around aviation. “I hope a show like this makes young people want to get into aviation, just like I did.”
It was about 60 years ago that Trent, 70, fell in love with aircraft. He eventually flew planes in Vietnam as a member of the U.S. Air Force, and throughout the world as a Delta Airlines pilot. The career enabled him to meet and marry Jo West 48 years ago, a marriage that helped him find his adopted hometown of Anderson 38 years ago.
“Aviation has given me a lot of great things,” Trent said after an exercise session at the Anderson Area YMCA.
Some recent health problems forced Trent to the sidelines for much of the fundraising campaign by the air show committee, which prompted the Trents to make the name-bearing donation.
“We wanted to put on a nice show and the committee was trying to do it totally free. To do that, you need sponsorship and a lot of hustle,” he said. “I wasn’t able to help the committee raise funds, so Jo and I decided that we might
Article source: http://www.independentmail.com/story/news/local/2016/10/19/trent-wants-pass-childhood-love-flying/92406412/
