Model Airplanes

People still get a shock when they see a 1954 Russian MiG-15 touch down on a Canadian runway and find out the pilot is a local Mississauga businessman. It’s a very uncommon sight.

After all, the design team of Anushavan Mikoyan and Iosifovich Gurevich (where the name MiG comes from), created the reputation of their aircraft in the most top secret and paranoid era in aviation history. Amid the conflict and tension of the “cold war” their radical new aircraft was built and used in almost every communist nation including North Korea and China.

“It is the most prolific jet fighter ever built.” says Richard (Coop) Cooper. He’s the proud owner and pilot of one of these truly extraordinary planes. “There were about 16 to 18,000 of them built.” There may not be very many of them left still capable of flying, but it is one of the first aircraft to announce the arrival of the jet age and it sent air forces of the western world into total panic when it first arrived.

The mystique of the MiG was even incorporated in the 1986 film Top Gun (starring Tom Cruise), where American pilots flying F-14 Tomcats encounter MiG-28s. Back then, they were as scary as UFOs and just as unfamiliar. In the movie, one of the pilots is so shaken up, he has

Article source: http://www.mississauga.com/living-story/6836503-former-canadian-international-air-show-president-richard-cooper/

Pretty soon, you may never have to leave your home. Or your office.

With the tap of a mobile app or an online order, you can receive groceries, liquor or business supplies.

South Floridians’ options are growing when it comes to services that can shop for you and make deliveries quickly — with San Francisco-based Instacart and Austin-based Dropoff becoming the latest such companies to launch in the region. They join Birmingham, Ala.-based Shipt, which delivers from Publix and landed in South Florida in 2015.

Improved technology and the rise of the smartphone have enabled delivery services to automate operations, from taking an order via a mobile app to sending it to a shopper-driver on standby, who can deliver the item within hours. Delivery can be tracked, updating the customer on expected arrival. And delivery services can continue to improve through customers’ constant feedback via the app or online.

KING, Wisconsin — Walter Sundling wanted to live at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King.

Held captive by the Nazis during World War II after his plane was shot down over Germany, the 90-year-old Air Force veteran was healthy when he asked to move to the community surrounded by southern pines he visited as a child. He had his own apartment at an assisted living facility in Madison, but wanted to be near others who had served their country, at the home between Stevens Point and Oshkosh.

“He said, ‘I’d love to be with veterans. I’d really like to be with my own kind and I’ve heard so many good things about King,’” said Sundling’s daughter, Sharon Blando, who lives in Milwaukee. “He was just so happy to be with the vets.”

Two years later, Blando said, the Purple Heart recipient developed gastrointestinal bleeding from untreated constipation. Two heart attacks followed and Sundling later died, the result, Blando claims, of widespread neglect at Wisconsin’s largest state-run, skilled nursing facility. Despite her father’s advanced age, Blando believes abysmal care at King expedited his death last year.

Sundling’s story is consistent with what current and former King employees, residents and family members say is a much larger problem: Elderly and over-medicated veterans with complex combinations of physical and mental ailments are not receiving adequate care at King, even as the state brings in millions more each year than it spends to care for its residents, transferring the surplus elsewhere.

The Cap Times visited the King veterans home

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Unmanned flying vehicles (UFVs), such as drones, have become increasingly visible in parks and open spaces across America. Stanford faculty and students are among those working on the effective design and deployment of these aircraft.

But UFV flights can pose safety and privacy risks in a campus environment such as Stanford’s. As a result, the university has enacted a new policy governing the use of UFVs at Stanford.

Signs going up at various locations around the campus, including the Oval, publicize Stanford’s rules for unmanned flying vehicles.

The policy prohibits third parties from outside the Stanford community from flying UFVs above or from within Stanford lands, which are private property. The policy also requires Stanford faculty, students and staff to obtain advance approval for a UFV flight at Stanford through a new university committee that has been established to serve as a single, streamlined resource for reviewing proposed flights.

The new protocols come out of a deliberative process that brought together stakeholders from across the university in recent months to formulate UFV guidelines for the campus. They also come as the Federal Aviation Administration has adopted new rules regarding private drone flights.

“We want to support the safe use of UFVs for university research, education and business purposes,” said Larry Gibbs, associate vice president for environmental health and safety. “We also want to provide a reasonable process that actively addresses the safety, regulatory compliance,

Article source: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/08/29/policy-ufv-flying/

The last time I went on an online date, I found myself at Buffalo Wild Wings with a guy named Tony. It was 2010, and I was living on the New Jersey shore at the time. (He was actually the second Tony I’d gone out with, it being the Jersey shore.) I remember feeling…underwhelmed. Missing the spark despite millions of messages exchanged, let down in a way that only deliberate, digitally orchestrated dates can inspire.

Technology has come a long way since then. We have apps now. All it takes is a finger swipe to dismiss someone, should you find their face and/or body parts unappealing.

Unfortunately, our modern approach to romance still fails to convey the visceral magic of a person. No app can capture the soul that animates your face, radiates your brand of warmth or talent, and shines when you immerse yourself in creative work that lights you up.

Or so I thought.

There’s a new app in town, and it’s designed expressly for creative, artsy types. You know, the ones who might classify themselves as more than just a pretty face.

The idea for the Hart App was born after Scott Webb attended a Rolling Stones concert and realized “Mick Jagger couldn’t compete on Tinder if he wasn’t Mick Jagger, but people love him,” says Webb. “It’s almost a form of hypnosis. When someone has created a great artistic revolution, people don’t care what you look like.”

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