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After more than a decade of searching across Canada for a long-lost plane from his past, a local flying enthusiast has finally located it and is inviting the community to help him restore it so it can fly once again.
Sameer Haqqi spent 12 years searching for the 1967 Cessna 337B Super Skymaster aircraft before finding the shell, stripped of all working components, in Nanaimo, B.C. earlier this year.
The fuselage and wings arrived last Thursday at Haqqi’s hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport, and he hopes to form a non-profit group with the goal of inviting the community to help him rebuild it from the ground up.
Article source: http://www.theweeklynews.ca/community-story/6906457-local-flying-enthusiast-tracks-down-plane-and-plans-to-restore-it-in-waterloo-region/
The firm Dappr Aviation’s Aeropod has come up with a very unique design for garden offices, sheds, bars or extra bedrooms. They are building these structures out of decommissioned planes by using parts of the fuselage as the main building block. The structures are called Aeropods, which is quite an apt name.
Each Aeropod is well-insulated and finished to the highest specification. Electricity and plumbing can also be installed into them. Judging by the renders, it is also possible to install heating into these units in the form of a wood stove. They also offer options such as heated floors, as well as a wide range of internal and/or external finishes. They are even offering to leave the finish in its original state, which I think is a great choice.
To build the Aeropods, they are using the airframes of either an A320 Airbus or a Boeing 737, which they cut in a way that allows them to retain the original aluminum floor bracing, fuselage shell and insulation. One end of the pod is covered by large Low-E glass doors, while the back wall is highly insulated.
Since airplanes are designed to withstand extreme conditions it makes sense to reuse them in some way after they have been deemed redundant and scraped. The latter happens quite quickly these days, due to the advancement of modern avionic, electronic
Article source: http://www.jetsongreen.com/2016/10/planes-upcycled-into-garden-offices.html
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
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
When the Budd BB-1 amphibious plane landed at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1934, no one anticipated the famous science museum would serve as its airport for the next 82 years.
But the “Pioneer” was displayed outside the museum from 1935 until 1969, and then, after a checkup, was returned to its perch there until last month when Alfred Hagen brought it to his construction company warehouse in Bensalem for some cosmetic surgery.
Hagen, the owner of Hagen Construction in Bensalem, is also a pilot and amateur historian who restores old planes.
His interest in old planes is related to the exploits of his great uncle, Maj. Bill Benn, an Army aviator who went missing in action in a plane crash in Papua, New Guinea, in January 1943. Hagen filmed a documentary of his finding Benn’s plane on that mountainous Pacific island for the History Channel back in 2003. Benn’s body was not found.
When the Budd BB-1 amphibious plane landed at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1934, no one anticipated the famous science museum would serve as its airport for the next 82 years.
But the “Pioneer” was displayed outside the museum from 1935 until 1969, and then, after a checkup, was returned to its perch there until last month when Alfred Hagen brought it to his construction company warehouse in Bensalem for some cosmetic surgery.
Hagen, the owner of Hagen Construction in Bensalem, is also a pilot and amateur historian who restores old planes.
His interest in old planes is related to the exploits of his great uncle, Maj. Bill Benn, an Army aviator who went missing in action in a plane crash in Papua, New Guinea, in January 1943. Hagen filmed a documentary of his finding Benn’s plane on that mountainous Pacific island for the History Channel back in 2003. Benn’s body was not found.
Hagen has traveled the world searching for missing-in-action airmen and the aircraft they flew during World War II. In the process, he has returned the bodies of 18 airmen to the U.S. military for burial in military cemeteries or their hometowns and has participated in the salvage of eight different planes.
Hagen got drafted to restore the Pioneer at a black-tie event for the Philadelphia Flower Show in March. There, he stopped to chat with John McFadden, a board member of The Franklin Institute, who asked him if he’d try to restore the Pioneer. The plane was getting a little unsightly, being out in
Article source: http://www.theintell.com/news/local/franklin-institute-s-plane-gets-a-makeover-in-bensalem/article_513d34d1-2cb3-5e61-8355-60348fc4e2a4.html
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In this whitepaper I will use trends from automation and video game revenue models to make the following predictions about the future of low-skill work.
Within five years, some game companies will be paying players in some way to play their games. This will be in the form of small points-based incentives that can be liquidated in the form of purchasing power.
Within ten years, paying for players will become a standard revenue model in the game industry. Payments will either be in the form of liquid virtual money or real cash.
Within twenty years, game playing will be a significant source of income of the low-skill workforce. Wage-playing will be the primary means by which the extreme gains of the wealthy will trickle down to the poor.
In broad outlines, the argument is that automation and other trends will dramatically increase inequality Article source: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EdwardCastronova/20161012/283107/Players_For_Hire_Games_and_the_Future_of_LowSkill_Work.php
