Model Airplanes

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Bob Stalick can still remember hunching over his mother’s breadboard, model airplane parts spread out, getting glue on the dressmaking pins she’d loaned him to hold the kit’s pieces together.

Those planes never flew, the north Albany man recalled. But then an attack of polio as a high school freshman left him with plenty of time at home recuperating. He used that time to put together a new airplane model he’d received from his classmates as a Christmas gift, one powered by a tiny gas engine from his parents, reported the Albany Democrat-Herald (http://bit.ly/2azS3fb).

When the plane was finished and Stalick was well enough, he took the plane out to the back field of his family’s Oregon City farm, started the motor and watched the aircraft rise into the sky.

“Eventually it hit a fence post and broke,” he said, “but that was the most amazing day of my life — to see that airplane that I had built out of pieces of wood actually fly.”

Emotionally, the former superintendent for Greater Albany Public Schools never really came down from that first flight. At 78 and long retired from a 39-year career in education, he continues to build and fly free-flight model airplanes year round.

Stalick shared his hobby with his son, Ted, a 1982 graduate of West Albany High School. Ted, now living in Southern California, shared it in turn with his younger son, Alex, now 16. And thanks to Alex, the three generations are traveling to Macedonia, where

Article source: http://www.dailyprogress.com/flying-free/article_1563ddc1-4787-5eb5-892e-c37119c6b26a.html

Mumbai: Tata Group-controlled TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd (TAL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors, has dispatched 5,000th Advanced Composite Floor Beam (ACFB) to plane maker Boeing Co. for its 787-9 and 787-10 Dreamliner aircraft.

These ACFBs are shipped out of the aerospace manufacturing facility located in MIHAN SEZ, Nagpur.

Currently, TAL is the only non-US facility to supply ACFBs to Boeing for its 787-9 Dreamliner, and it will also supply this component to the soon-to-be-built 787-10 Dreamliner. The ACFBs are shipped to Boeing partners in Italy, Japan and the US.

“We are despatching the 5000th advanced composite floor beam for Boeing 787s-9s and Boeing 787-10. The 787-10 is yet to be manufactured. TAL was given the order for the first five 787-19 floor beams because of its reliable and impeccable delivery and quality performance,” Rajesh Khatri, executive director and chief executive officer, TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd.

TAL is six months ahead of its original schedule of despatch of floor beams.

“We have invested over Rs.250 crore at the Boeing-dedicated facility in Nagpur. We started commercial production in March 2015,” he said.

Khatri said TAL has a headcount of 880 in Pune and Nagpur, of which 550 are based in Nagpur.

Boeing India President, Pratyush Kumar, called it a major milestone not just for Boeing and TAL, but also for India.

TAL did not disclose the value of the contract.

The Tata firm is associated with other original equipment manufacturers. “We are associated with the A (Airbus) and B (Boeing) of aircraft manufacturing,” Khatri said.

TAL has signed a

Article source: http://www.livemint.com/Industry/wZBehlaQR8ADgE5AZ5OIUL/Tata-firm-TAL-dispatches-floor-beams-for-Boeing-from-Nagpur.html

This article appears in the August 19, 2016 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

LYNDON LAROUCHE—MANHATTAN DIALOGUE

How We Defeat Evil

Excerpts of Lyndon LaRouche in Dialogue with the Manhattan Project, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016

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Dennis Speed: On behalf of the LaRouche Political Action Committee, I’d like to welcome everybody here today, for our Aug. 13 dialogue with Lyndon LaRouche. I think most of you here have received a copy of the broadsheet The Hamiltonian, and we’re fully in business now as a very active force in Manhattan.

Lyn, I’d like for you to give us some opening remarks, and then we’ll go right into questions and answers.

Lyndon LaRouche: Well, we’re in a situation now where everything that’s wrong in the United States has to be corrected. It’s that simple. But now we find that there are certain numbers among the members of this organization, who are working on trying to solve these problems. What I can do is not to solve these problems as such, but perhaps to guide some of our members here and elsewhere to get a better grip on what they can do to change the situation in the United States and beyond.

Bill Roberts: Hi, Lyn. I’ve been asked to try to describe a process which is underway now, as the Manhattan choral process expands into the outer boroughs with the process of organizing for the series of concerts that are taking place, the “Living Memorial for 9/11.”

This is intersecting—you

Article source: http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2016/4334aug_13_mnhtn_dialog.html

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Eva Seelye |   September 2016   |  FROM THE PRINT EDITION

Hotel guests will feel like they’re checking into the great outdoors with the debut of the W Seattle’s Pacific Northwest–inspired guestroom renovations. Each of the 415 guest rooms and nine suites of the downtown hotel have been redesigned to reflect Seattle’s history of aeronautical innovation and outdoor recreation. Illustrating these influences are design details such as each room’s “lodge wall,” printed with a 3-D log-cabin pattern, throw blankets printed with a pattern of airplane parts from Boeing 747’s model kit, and cockpit-inspired desk lighting.

“We could see that Seattleites are naturally connected to their region with a close relationship between urban and rural,” says Kajsa Krause, principal of Krause+Sawyer, the design firm spearheading the project.

Drawing on Seattle’s musical history, the renovation also includes the installation of the W Sound Suite: a private music studio and writer’s room, where professional musicians as well as hotel guests can stay and record while on the road (price upon request). Complete with a control room, mixers and

Article source: http://www.seattlemag.com/article/w-seattle-debuts-outdoor-inspired-renovations

One thing is certain about Beatriz Colomina and Pep Aviles’s Playboy Architecture, 1953–1979: It is an evidentiary display proving that architecture and media are complicit partners in shaping society’s view of itself. Born out of research within the Ph.D. program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, Playboy Architecture is an exhaustive index of the ways magazines, architecture, design, furniture, fashion, and sex influence Western society. From the pages of Playboy, one could dream of a glossy packaged life. However, the role of the architect in this context has never been clearer: a precise purveyor of taste, a consummate expert on lifestyles, and a key to liberation—sexual and/or otherwise.

On display through August 28 at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, Illinois, 18 miles west of downtown Chicago, Playboy Architecture is situated within Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House, a centerpiece of the museum and one of three built Mies houses in the United States. Perhaps there can be no better space to display and curate a show like Playboy Architecture, simply due to the fact that this house was meant to be mass produced—a cog in a suburban machine that Mies was never able to create, in part because modernism and its sultry packaging were just not tasteful to the inhabitants of Elmhurst.

Playboy brought together many of its time’s greatest designers. (Courtesy Elmhurst Art Museum)

The

Article source: http://archpaper.com/2016/08/beatriz-colomina-pep-aviles-playboy-architecture/

• Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

  Leah Goodman, 10, and her mother Carrie, right, look at a detailed train and town diorama on display at Caboose Hobbies on August 14, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The store, which has been in Denver for over 60 years, will close Sept. 25.

• Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

  A detailed train and town diorama is on display at Caboose Hobbies store on August 14, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The store, which has been in Denver for over 60 years, will close Sept. 25. The store is the world’s largest model train store.

• Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

  Model trains for sale line the shelves at Caboose Hobbies store on August 14, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The store, which has been in Denver for over 60 years, will close Sept. 25. The store is the world’s largest model train store.

• Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

  Model trains for sale line the shelves at Caboose Hobbies store on August 14, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The store,

  Article source: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/19/worlds-largest-model-train-store-caboose-hobbies-to-close/

50 Years Ago

From the Tribune week of Sept. 21, 1966:

Complaints concerning gasoline fumes in homes have drawn the urgent request from Ken Roeben, fire marshal, for home owners to check their basement drains at once, especially in the area between Ninth Street and Fifteenth Street along Tenth Ave. South. Roeben said there is a gasoline leak in the area, and gas fumes are following sewer and other lines. He said the fumes have been found in dangerous concentration at some manhole points, and in a number of homes he has found the basement sewer drains, which are supposed to be full of water, are dry because of evaporation of water.

NEW YORK Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said Tuesday 40,000 men disqualified for the draft under current standards will be accepted for military training within the next 10 months as a link between the war on poverty and this nation’s defense. He said the men — rejected for education and health reasons often rooted in poverty — would be given special training at military posts to qualify them for regular service.

HELENA – A proposal for the voluntary restoration of land disturbed by strip mining for coal was made public Tuesday at a conference sponsored by the Coal Resources Research Council of Montana’s University

Article source: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/life/my-montana/2016/08/18/montana-album-dangerous-fumes-bridge-condemned/88976472/