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Article source: http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/jim-mckee-lincoln-business-joins-wwii/article_bf648191-9eb1-5da5-9037-23c095dfa2ad.html
Not all of the aircraft flying over Kinston on Saturday had pilots in them.
The Kinston Aero-Modelers hosted its second airshow of 2016 on Saturday.
The event drew more than 30 radio-controlled aircraft pilots and more than 100 model airplanes from Raleigh, Fayetteville, Durham, Jacksonville, Vanceboro, Virginia and other regions to Kinston.
“During our spring show, everything flies, but this is special. Today is for war birds and military planes only,” Robert McGaughy, president of the Kinston Aero-Modelers, said. “Everything has to have at least an 80-inch wingspan, or be a military plane.”
After a morning delay caused by fog, pilots spent the better part of the day flying, performing aerial acrobatics and deep dives with their favorite model aircraft.
“As far as a hobby goes, for me, I’ve always enjoyed things that create adrenaline and excitement; these airplanes do that,” Don Wright, of the Southern Air RC Club of Vanceboro, said.
Wright brought only one plane with him on Saturday, a wooden frame with a light plastic body sporting a bright green and black and white checkered pattern paint scheme. It is his most recently built aircraft in his home fleet of 16 planes.
His machine, with its 90 inch wingspan and 50cc motor — like the one found in a weed eater — was one of the more modest planes flown at Saturday’s show.
Wright came to Kinston to fly with other members of his club, some with their own airplanes, others serving as spotters and spectators.
“It’s always real nice to get together with people who
Article source: http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20160925/aero-modelers-take-over-kinston-skies
The aircraft whipped through the air high above Lansdowne, spiraled down to the ground in a manic corkscrew, then stood up on its tail in midair, its engine pulling it up faster than gravity could drag it down.
They’re stunts a real plane could not perform, explained Art Vail, an official with the Southwest Area Park Modelers radio control club.
But as hundreds of thousands of drones take to the sky, competing for space with passenger airliners, cargo planes and other manned aircraft, the federal government has been moving to regulate models more like real planes.
That effort has turned the Baltimore County runway where Vail’s club is hosting an air show this weekend — and venues like it across the state and nation — into a battleground.
On one side are the modelers, fighting to preserve their decades-old hobby. On the other are aviation authorities, who are charged with keeping the nation’s skies safe amid the coming of swarms of drones.
Ikonics Corp. officially unveiled its $4.3 million expansion in Morgan Park on Thursday afternoon.
“I think we reached the turning point for where we stand in the industry,” Ikonics CEO Bill Ulland said. “Now people call us — we don’t have to solicit (business).” The 27,300-square foot facility is dedicated to the company’s aviation division, which employs 12 people today and possibly more in the future.
“We’ve got a lot of extra space, and we wouldn’t have done that without anticipating growth,” said Ulland.
The expansion is connected to an existing 37,000-square-foot plant at the Atlas Industrial Park, the former home of Atlas Cement Co.
Altogether, Ikonics employs 80 people and last year had net sales of $17.5 million.
The expanded facility is used for the company’s sound-deadening technology for airline and helicopter engines.
“No one is doing it like us,” senior composite technician Don Wold said during a public tour of the facility.
The work done there doesn’t involve building parts, but taking customers’ parts — such as the rounded housing for airplane engines — and punching holes in it. That’s the simple way to describe it, but of course it’s more complex than that. Ikonics applies its film — a type of product the company has been manufacturing since it was founded as Chroma-Glo in 1952 — and several steps later sand-blasts a carbon fiber or fiberglass component so that it is perforated.
Ulland said his bigger customers include Airbus, Mitsubishi and Bell Helicopter.
Cirrus, a leading plane manufacturer also based in Duluth, doesn’t use Ikonics parts
Article source: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/4121246-ikonics-unveils-morgan-park-expansion
WARNER ROBINS, GA.– – The Warner Robins Air Show lands in Central Georgia every few years. For some airplane aficionados, the passion for the planes stays with them year round.
“I always loved airplanes. I was fascinated by them. I still, to this day, have a childlike wonder and awe at airplanes and how they fly,” says Museum of Aviation Curator Mike Rowland.
He has managed to turn his passion for planes into an interesting career. He is the Curator of the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins. He started as an intern at the museum back in 2003.
Rowland says he grew up traveling from base to base and seeing lots of different airplanes as the child of a Navy man. Even he went into the military. He joined the Air Force on a maintenance squadron for 6 years.
He says he got the job as the museum curator after he graduated college, majoring in museum studies. Although he loves the museum and all of its plane history he says seeing planes at a museum and at an air show are very different experiences.
“When you come to a museum, you can see some pretty amazing airplanes. We have some neat airplanes here at the Museum of Aviation but they’re
Article source: http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/airplane-aficionado-combines-passion-and-profession/324414615
A plane registered in Des Moines crashed outside of Lee’s Summit Airport in Missouri Tuesday.
Police said the airplane in the crash was a 1964 Piper PA-28-235, which is a four seat, low wing and fixed gear general aviation aircraft. The initial investigation indicates that the flight originated in Des Moines, and the occupants were travelling to Lee’s Summit to meet family when the crash occurred.
Right now there are no indications their plane made any distress calls.
The Lee’s Summit Airport is small and has no control tower, but radio traffic from surrounding areas revealing other aircrafts were warned.
Lee’s Summit police officials identified the victims as pilot Vincent L. Basile, 53, of Des Moines, and passenger Kelli B. Basile, 24, of West Des Moines. Family members confirmed to KCCI that Vincent and
Article source: http://www.kcci.com/news/plane-in-fatal-mo-crash-traced-back-to-des-moines/41755284
FILE
— In this March 2, 2008 file photo, two passenger planes of
Iran’s national air carrier, Iran Air, are parked at the Mehrabad
Airport in Tehran, Iran. Airbus announced Wednesday, Sept. 21,
2016, that the U.S. government has granted it a license allowing
it to sell the first 17 planes involved in a landmark deal with
Iran. Most Iranian planes were purchased before the 1979 Islamic
Revolution that ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought
Islamists to power. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi,
File)
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Aviation giants Airbus
Article source: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-us-grants-airbus-boeing-permission-to-sell-aircraft-to-iran-2016-9
