Model Airplanes

This year, in the 150th celebration of Union Pacific in North Platte, a campaign to plant and sponsor 150 trees in the parks will begin Saturday during the family Rail Days celebration at Cody Park.  

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–>The tree-planting kick off will just be one part of the festivities at Cody Park, where bus tours will leave for Bailey Yard every 30 minutes.

Organizer Kirsten Parker said hosts on the buses will not only tell visitors about Bailey Yard, but also about the history of North Platte as they drive to and from the world’s largest rail yard.

The buses will travel past the former site of the WWII Canteen downtown near the UP railroad tracks, Parker said.

She encourages everyone who wants a bus tour to register in advance at www.northplatteraildays.com. However, people without reservations will be accommodated if seats are available.

The weekend festival began Friday with a model train show downtown. and from 5-11 p.m. at the Golden Spike Visitor’s Tower, five breweries and four wineries present their beverages and the tower is open to view the world’s biggest rail yard. Admission is $25, which pays for 10 tastings, and the customer gets to keep their souvenir glass, Parker said.

Saturday events include an all-you-can eat pancake feed that starts as 7:30 a.m. at the Lincoln County Historical Museum. Each pancake will come with

Article source: http://www.northplattebulletin.com/index.asp?show=news&action=readStory&storyID=32683&pageID=3

It’s been more than a half century since Reno pilot Wayne Adams flew a P-51 Mustang into National Championship Air Races lore.

Long before the races became a multi-million dollar event for the region — including the Blue Angels and even micro-drone racing this week at the 53rd National Championship Air Races — it debuted on a dirt runway at Sky Ranch east of Pyramid Highway.

In 1964, the inaugural event included pylon racing, aerobatics, static displays and a cross country race from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno.

Adams, 85, first heard about hopes to resurrect a race modeled after the defunct Cleveland National Championship Air Races during a dinner gathering of pilots in Reno in the early-1960s.

“I knew I really wanted to get into something like this,” Adams, a retired Air Force major general and former commander of the 152nd Reconnaissance Group, Nevada Air National Guard, said during an interview at his south Reno home this summer.

Adams, a major in the Nevada Air National Guard and training pilot supervisor in 1964, needed the endorsement of someone willing to provide him a privately-owned plane for the cross country race.

“Try as I may, the door was often just shut,” he said. “Nobody wants to have their airplane put in a race like that and beat up.”

A friend of Adams suggested he reach

Article source: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/23926416-113/air-guard-pilot-won-cross-country-race-in-first

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

A scale version of the ‘Blended Wing Body’ (BWB) aircraft is currently being tested at a Nasa facility.

The triangle-shaped plane, that could one day be used by the US military, is reminiscent of spy planes and designed to cut through the air more efficiently.

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A scale version of the ‘Blended Wing Body’ (BWB) aircraft (pictured) is currently being tested at a Nasa facility. The triangle-shaped plane, that could one day be used by the US military, is reminiscent of spy planes and designed to cut through the air more efficiently

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 essence, merged into the body.

Another difference is that it does not have a tail. 

Researchers still face several challenges in developing a full production model

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3785673/Is-future-flying-Boeing-tests-blended-wing-plane-skies-10-years.html

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

A scale version of the ‘Blended Wing Body’ (BWB) aircraft is currently being tested at a Nasa facility.

The triangle-shaped plane, that could one day be used by the US military, is reminiscent of spy planes and designed to cut through the air more efficiently.

Scroll down for video 

A scale version of the ‘Blended Wing Body’ (BWB) aircraft (pictured) is currently being tested at a Nasa facility. The triangle-shaped plane, that could one day be used by the US military, is reminiscent of spy planes and designed to cut through the air more efficiently

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 essence, merged into the body.

Another difference is that it does not have a tail. 

Researchers still face several challenges in developing a full production model

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3785673/Is-future-flying-Boeing-tests-blended-wing-plane-skies-10-years.html

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