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“[A]t the airports, I feel as if I always have to have a smile on my face, or make friendly talk with the TSA members, or the person sitting next to me in the airplane, in order to smooth my flying experience,” she said.

Nihal Al Qawasmi, the New York City-based co-founder and editorial director at MissMuslim, once had a TSA agent tell her that her headscarf was pretty but not to wear it next time she flew.

“After noticing how baffled I was, the agent quickly tried to patch up the damage by saying, ‘No, your headscarf is fine but it might be the reason the metal detector went off,’” she said. “I was still baffled, because I was more than positive that cotton scarves aren’t made out of metal.”

They’re expected to be model Muslims

Post-9/11 Islamophobia demanded that all Muslims answer for the violent actions of a few extremists. That dynamic forced them into a “model Muslim” role that didn’t always feel fair, many Muslim Americans told HuffPost.

“It really catapulted many Muslims like myself, especially Muslim women who wear the headscarf, into this very visible, frontline role of what it means to be Muslim in America,” Chaudry said. “Whether we wanted to or not, we were perceived to be the ambassadors of our faith.”

Soltani, still in his first year of college, suddenly found himself doing media interviews with no previous experience.

“I was looked at by all my classmates and peers as the ‘model Muslim’ if you will, whether I was or not,”

Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/post-911-islamophobia_us_57d075dfe4b0a48094a75bc1

BROUGHTON, Wales — Like a cartoon space alien with a dome-like skull, an Airbus Beluga transport plane arriving from Madrid drops from the sky above this village 200 miles northwest of London and taxis to a stop with its front end tucked inside a large building off the runway.

Its bulbous forehead pops open to disgorge massive wing panels — 98 feet long and 20 feet wide — that will soon be assembled by sophisticated robots and about 800 humans into the largest carbon-fiber composite wings now built for commercial aviation.

Ninety minutes later, it’s ready to take off for Bremen, Germany, with a new load so large it must be tilted at a 45-degree angle to fit inside: an almost complete A350 wing.

Where Airbus builds wings

• About 6,000 people work at the 700-acre Broughton site, building Airbus wings.

• The carbon-fiber wings of the new large twinjet A350 are built in the north factory, opened in 2011.

• Wings for the A320 and A330 jets are built in the east factory that dates back to World War II.

• The wings of the A380 superjumbo jet are built in the west factory, opened in 2003.

Source: Airbus

Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/airbus-wing-plant-is-a-model-of-robotic-technology/

Marshall Stanton was nearing the end of a flight when the engine on his radio-controlled airplane stalled over a soybean field.

Rather than tromp through the valuable vegetation northeast of Salina, to retrieve possible wreckage, he calmly turned the craft into a stiff crosswind and glided to a soft landing on the grassy runway at Smoky Hill R/C Field, just southeast of Salina.

The maneuver brought applause from several pilots Saturday at the Giant Scale Model Fly-In. The event was hosted by the Smoky Hill Model Flying Club, attracting more than 25 planes and pilots and nearly 100 spectators from as far away at Topeka, Wichita, Lyons and Hays.

“That was a nice save. I thought he was going into the beans,” said Jim Eastburn, 69, a hobbyist from Topeka.

He brought a scaled-down model of a Rearwin Speedster aircraft but was unsure if he would fly it, given the crosswind.

A gas-powered generator hummed next to Wayne Hittle’s pickup truck that was charging batteries for his electric-powered planes. He pointed to one that pulls 200 amps on takeoff.

“You can weld with that,” he said.

Himself a commercial pilot who works on the avionics — anything electronic — on full-size planes, Hittle, also 69, of Topeka, doubles flying the radio-controlled aircrafts.

He’s also a licensed airframe and power plant inspector.

“That and a dollar gets you a cup of coffee,” Hittle said. “Full-size planes are the most fun, but at these R/C fly-ins, I get to meet all of these nice people.”

Standing on the ground, doing rolls, loops,

Article source: http://salina.com/news/local/fun-fly-in-brings-nearly-folks-to-marvel-at-r/article_07857113-87de-54db-8e95-ab72db246263.html

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Weather, long hours and complacency can lead to injuries on the farm.
Jason Minto/The News Journal

You would never mistake Bill Brown for anything other than a poultry grower, with a chicken farm in Maryland and a full-time job as an extension agent for the University of Delaware.

Based in Georgetown, he taught and traveled to agricultural operations all around Delaware, spreading advice, including safety tips, to farmers. He knew his way around a chicken house and had done maintenance work on feed motors in poultry houses — lightly powered motors that ration out feed — countless times.

But in April, Brown went to touch a feed motor on his farm, not knowing a wire had come loose and energized the motor housing.

The shock was enough to kill him.

Brown’s death rattled and saddened farmers and growers in Delaware and Maryland.

Article source: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2016/09/09/fatal-accidents-remind-farmers-their-works-inherent-risk/89593438/