Model Airplanes

“That stuff doesn’t just happen: The fact that I’m sitting there in that tire shop to read the wanted ad, the fact that I have the car for sale, the fact that George had a record of the VIN number, and having him come and walk up the driveway at the exact moment we were going to start the car, there were so many strange, almost improbable things to make this happen,” he said. “I told George, ‘(since the restoration) I haven’t kept the car up well, but I have kept it stored, and I feel like I’ve been the caretaker of your car for 19 years.’ “

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes boss Ray Conner said Sunday in London that though the pace of voluntary job reductions in the Puget Sound region has been slower than expected, job cuts will continue through more voluntary buyouts and should total around 4,000 by year end.

That figure doesn’t include any potential job cuts in other Boeing units in the region, such as defense and corporate services.

In a wide-ranging roundtable discussion with journalists at Boeing’s UK headquarters on the eve of Monday’s opening of the Farnborough Air Show, Conner conceded that Boeing has seen a big slowdown in widebody jet orders this year, which he attributed partly to the uncertainty caused by unrest around the world.

Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/ahead-of-farnborough-air-show-boeings-conner-talks-job-cuts-iran-and-new-airplanes/

By Renée S. Gordon

North Beach and Chesapeake Beach are twin bayside beaches. North Beach is located on the northern tip of Calvert County and has a .50-mile boardwalk and 7-block waterfront. The Bayside History Museum places emphasis on the history of North Beach. The beach offers fishing, swimming, kayak rentals and boat slips. #1Xmas town

The best way to learn about Chesapeake Beach is to follow the Historic Heritage Trail. It was developed as a resort area in the 1890s and the Chesapeake Beach Railway operated from 1900 to 1935 and its story is related in the Railway Museum housed inside a former station. The Railway Trail has wonderful views of Fishing Creek and the surrounding terrain. baydreaming.com

Numerous events and activities take place at the Chesapeake Beach Resort Spa. It is a destination in itself but it is located within an easy drive of all the main attractions on the Western Shore. It offers rooms with waterfront views, fine dining, a spa menu of treatments, a casino and a vast array of water sports. Rock the Dock, a series of concerts, is presented on the beach in a unique Band Shell. chesapeakebeachresortspa.com

Visitors can go from sea to stars in only a short drive. Spaceflight America and Science Center is an excellent walk into the history of spaceflight. This museum is filled with artifacts and interpretive galleries that will awe you. Everything here is a highlight

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Luca Iaconi-Stewart, 24, is a passionate fan of aviation, to put it lightly. He’s spent the last seven years constructing the most detailed model of a Air India Boeing 777 ever, using cut up manila folders as material.

His model includes every detail of the plane, down to bolts, bathrooms and areas like the crew rest module that regular passengers never even see. Each of the 342 seats was constructed meticulously before being put in place.

Iaconi-Stewart decided to build the model when the plane first debuted, in 2008. There were no engineering drawings of the plane readily available, so he had to study photos and a maintenance manual online to build his project.

Ianconi-Stewart didn’t just build the outside of the impressive aircraft. He also built the engine, and made sure all the parts were functioning. “The [engine’s] thrust reversers were tricky,” he says. “I did not understand how they worked. I had to study videos on YouTube, and I also found a photograph looking at the back of the engine. My design looked good on paper, so I hoped for the best.”

The designs for the model began as computer drawings, which Ianconi-Stewart would then print out and lay on top of manila envelopes, which he cut with an X-Acto knife. Just the engine took him a month to design and four months to put together. He spent the last two years building the plane’s wings, and he has

Article source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a21752/boeing-777-model/

1903

William Edward Boeing, born in Detroit to a German immigrant named Wilhelm Böing, heads West after his Yale education to make a fortune in the timber industry in Southwest Washington’s Grays Harbor. It’s the year of the Wright brothers’ first flight.

1908

Bill Boeing moves up to Seattle and turns his focus from timber to wood products, including a furniture factory and boatyard.

1914

Bill Boeing catches the flying bug after his first flight in a floatplane during an Independence Day celebration in Seattle.

1916

His first engineer is Beijing-born Wong Tsu, a new graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who sets to work on the Model C plane. The design, drawing on research from MIT’s wind tunnel and French engineer Gustave Eiffel, becomes Boeing’s first financially successful aircraft.

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