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IRRRB staff members have asked the agency’s board to approve the loan to Albuquerque, N.M.-based ACC Manufacturing Inc., which makes composite parts for its parent company, One Aviation.

The board, which will meet Monday in Eveleth, also is being asked to approve another $293,000 to the Grand Rapids Economic Development Authority for improvements at the ACC site.

The money will buy an existing hangar at the airport to house about 20 employees of ACC, said state Rep. Tom Anzelc, DFL-Balsam Township, who is IRRRB board chairman.

The company eventually would relocate to a larger facility at the airport as part of a $9 million project.

One Aviation is the parent company producing the Eclipse jet and also hoping to produce the Kestrel turboprop aircraft. It’s headed by Alan Klapmeier, the former Duluth aviation executive who co-founded Cirrus Aircraft.

“We’re hoping this will be Phase One of a much larger project that will lead to the manufacture of the entire airplane in Grand Rapids,” Anzelc said.

The parts made in Grand Rapids would be used in the Eclipse jet, which is already in production in New Mexico, said Mark Phillips, IRRRB director. But Phillips agreed that the long-term goal is to see One Aviation build its Kestrel plant at Grand Rapids as well.

“This is a specific, standalone deal to supply the Eclipse,” Phillips said. “No one is hiding the fact we’d like to someday see them build the Kestrel on the Iron Range. But this project isn’t tied to

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IRRRB staff members have asked the agency’s board to approve the loan to Albuquerque, N.M.-based ACC Manufacturing Inc., which makes composite parts for its parent company, One Aviation.

The board, which will meet Monday in Eveleth, also is being asked to approve another $293,000 to the Grand Rapids Economic Development Authority for improvements at the ACC site.

The money will buy an existing hangar at the airport to house about 20 employees of ACC, said state Rep. Tom Anzelc, DFL-Balsam Township, who is IRRRB board chairman.

The company eventually would relocate to a larger facility at the airport as part of a $9 million project.

One Aviation is the parent company producing the Eclipse jet and also hoping to produce the Kestrel turboprop aircraft. It’s headed by Alan Klapmeier, the former Duluth aviation executive who co-founded Cirrus Aircraft.

“We’re hoping this will be Phase One of a much larger project that will lead to the manufacture of the entire airplane in Grand Rapids,” Anzelc said.

The parts made in Grand Rapids would be used in the Eclipse jet, which is already in production in New Mexico, said Mark Phillips, IRRRB director. But Phillips agreed that the long-term goal is to see One Aviation build its Kestrel plant at Grand Rapids as well.

“This is a specific, standalone deal to supply the Eclipse,” Phillips said. “No one is hiding the fact we’d like to someday see them build the Kestrel on the Iron Range. But this project isn’t tied to that.”

Klapmeier originally planned to build the Kestrel in

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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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In just ten years, a plane that flies using a radical hybrid wing shaped body could become a reality.

In a step towards realising that goal, a scale version of the ‘Blended Wing Body’ (BWB) aircraft is currently being tested at a Nasa facility.

In the latest tests, the space agency has revealed how the researchers are making sure it will be as green as possible by watching how particles flow around the aircraft using lasers. 

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Engineers at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, used lasers inside the 14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel to map how air flows over a Boeing Blended Wing Body (BWB) model. The name for the technique is called particle image velocimetry. If you look closely you can see the light bouncing off tracer particles

THE BLENDED WING BODY 

Many of Boeing’s advanced vehicle concepts centre around a blended wing body design.

A blended wing body does not look like a conventional airplane. 

Instead of the usual tube and wing design, it’s shaped more like a triangle where the wings are, in

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3836536/Nasa-tests-radical-blended-wing-plane-using-lasers-says-skies-just-10-years.html

Oct. 13–A fledgling aircraft parts manufacturing company promising to establish a facility at the Grand Rapids airport is in line for a $1.5 million loan from the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board.

IRRRB staff members have asked the agency’s board to approve the loan to ACC Manufacturing Inc., which makes composite parts for its parent company, One Aviation.

The board, which will meet Monday in Eveleth, also is being asked to approve another $293,000 to the Grand Rapids Economic Development Authority for improvements at the ACC site.

The money will buy an existing hangar at the airport to house about 20 employees of ACC, said state Rep. Tom Anzelc, DFL-Balsam Township, who is IRRRB board chairman.

The company eventually would relocate to a larger facility at the airport as part of a $9 million project.

One Aviation is the parent company of the firms producing the Eclipse jet in New Mexico and also hoping to produce the Kestrel turboprop aircraft. One Aviation is headed by Alan Klapmeier, the former Duluth aircraft executive who co-founded Cirrus Aircraft.

“We’re hoping this will be Phase One of a much larger project that will lead to the manufacture of the entire airplane in Grand Rapids,” Anzelc said.

The parts made in Grand Rapids would be used in the Eclipse jet, which is already in production in New Mexico, said Mark Phillips, IRRRB director. But Phillips agreed that the long-term goal is to see One Aviation build their Kestrel plant at Grand Rapids as well.

“This is a specific, standalone deal

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