Model Airplanes

Come Saturday, close to 50 planes will hit the runway during the Big Bird Fly-In.

“We have many different varieties of planes, and these are going to be the large scale airplanes,” said Kyle Walker, Jayhawk Model Masters vice president. It’s an annual event that he has participated in for several years. He says during the show, the audience will get a chance to see what it takes to fly a model airplane.

“When you’re up there, you’re flying by yourself,” Walker said. “You can fly anywhere you want, do aerobatics, kind of like the full scale.” If you’re interested in taking off, Jayhawk Model Masters editor and trainer Gary Webber says the sky is the limit. With the group’s new trainer airplane, he says anyone who comes on Saturday can fly.

“If it looks like fun, ask one of the officers and we’ll let you fly our trainer airplane,” Webber said. As for Walker, he says he’s hoping this event will help many people spread their wings.

“It’s something different, you don’t see a lot of the younger kids out there flying,” Walker said.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. government granted aviation giants Airbus and Boeing permission on Wednesday to sell aircraft to Iran following last year’s nuclear accord.

European airplane manufacturer Airbus announced the license from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control early Wednesday. Chicago-based Boeing followed with its own announcement later in the day.

The approval clears the way for the two plane manufacturers to access one of the last untapped aviation markets in the world. Both companies have announced separate $25-billion deals to sell aircraft to airlines in the country, although analysts are skeptical that there is demand for so many jets or available financing.

The deal would be the biggest for an American company since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and U.S. Embassy takeover.

The announcements come as Iranian and U.S. leaders are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and shows that the outgoing administration of President Barack Obama is honoring the economic terms of the nuclear pact.

Though based abroad, Airbus needed the approval of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for the deal because at least 10 percent of the manufacturer’s components are of American origin.

Airbus applied for two licenses to cover its deal with Iran to ensure the fast delivery of some of the aircraft, Airbus spokesman Justin Dubon told The Associated Press. The license announced Wednesday covers the first 17 planes involved in the deal, which will be A320s and A330s, he said.

Dubon said Airbus hoped to receive a second license allowing

Article source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-21/urgent-airbus-says-us-grants-license-for-planes-in-iran-deal

Some sons inherit their looks or an affinity for baseball from their fathers. Tenth-grader Stoil Avramov inherited a love of flight.

The Long Reach High School student travels the country and world piloting model airplanes in competitions, and when he’s not doing that or sitting in class, he’s in his basement working on his planes, he said.

“At the age of 6, I started flying gliders for the first time,” he said. “And from there, when I got enough skills, I was like, why not try some competition? That’s how I, pace by pace, got to the world championships.”

The 15-year-old recently returned from Ukraine and Slovenia, where he represented the United States on a three-person junior team in his third trip to the airplane modeling world championships.