Model Airplanes

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final part in a three-part series by local historian Norman Rozeff. The first two parts can be found at www.ValleyStar.com.

Leland had begun working on the design of his S1 aerial application plane in 1951 while still attending Texas AM. At that time pilots were still flying Stearman bi-planes and J-3 Cubs that had been converted as best possible to apply agricultural chemicals. Being underpowered and not particularly safe in an emergency, they were risky to operate. In 1954 Leland, listed as an engineer in the telephone directory, continued to live with his widowed mother.

By 1956 he had set up the Snow Aeronautical Company, manufacturers, at 2 ½ miles West State Highway 83, Harlingen.

When, in 1955, he had designed his advanced S 2 model applicator, he needed working capital to advance his dream. It was not forthcoming in

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The Swiss-built Solar Impulse 2 airplane continued its fuel-free, round-the-world odyssey today with a nearly 17-hour flight from Oklahoma to Dayton, Ohio, home of the Wright Brothers.

The solar-powered plane took off from Tulsa International Airport before sunrise at 4:23 a.m. CT (2:23 a.m. PT), and landed after dark at Dayton International Airport at 9:56 p.m. ET (6:56 p.m. PT).. In between, Solar Impulse 2 swept over a wide swath of America’s heartland, including Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

After landing, pilot Andre Borschberg was met by two relatives of the Wright Brothers, great-grandnephew Stephen Wright and great-grandniece Amanda Wright Lane. They gave models of the Wright Flyer to Borschberg and Solar Impulse’s other co-founder, Swiss psychiatrist-adventurer Bertrand Piccard.

“It was a dream to come here, and we made it,” Borschberg told the Wrights.

Piccard noted that Dayton served as the base for Orville and Wilbur Wright’s airplane-building operation more than a century ago. “People told the Wright Brothers, and us, what we wanted to achieve was impossible,” he said. “They were wrong.”

Today’s flight marked the 12th leg of a 22,000-mile journey that began in March 2015 in Abu Dhabi, and has included stops in Oman, India, Myanmar, China and Japan. Solar Impulse 2 Article source: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/solar-impulse-plane-dayton-ohio-wright/

By ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer

NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) – On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Saturday he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in organizing local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow campaign to push the Islamic State group out of Syria.

“I have responsibility for this mission, and I have responsibility for the people that we put here,” Army Gen. Joseph Votel said in an interview as dusk fell on the remote outpost where he had arrived 11 hours earlier. “So it’s imperative for me to come and see what they’re dealing with – to share the risk they are dealing with.”

Votel, who has headed U.S. Central Command for just seven weeks, became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer known to have entered Syria since the U.S. began its campaign to counter the Islamic State group in 2014. The circumstance was exceptional because the U.S. has no combat units in Syria, no diplomatic relations with Syria and for much of the past two years has enveloped much of its Syria military mission in secrecy.

Votel said he brought reporters with him because, “We don’t have anything to hide. I don’t want people guessing about what we’re doing here. The American people should have the right to see what we’re doing here.”

Votel flew into northern Syria from Iraq, where he had conferred

Article source: http://www.wthr.com/story/32034661/top-us-commander-makes-secret-visit-to-syria

Ilana Ruben is manning the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in front of the ShopRite in Glenolden to celebrate the opening of the new store. The Bryn Mawr native is traveling through parts of the United States showing off the iconic Wienermobile.

 Ruben graduated from Radnor High School in 2011.  She never thought she would become a hotdogger.

The first Wienermobile she ever saw was the 1952 model in the Henry Ford Museum during her freshman year at Penn State University.  In February of her senior year, the Hotdoggers came into her Public Relations class to recruit potential Hotdoggers.  

“As soon as the Hotdoggers left my PR class I knew this is what I wanted to do after graduation,” said Ruben.

Ruben graduated from Penn State University in 2015

When she told her parents she wanted to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, at first they were confused but Ruben told them that it was a real job and over 15,000 applicants apply and they only pick 12 a year. She explained having a positon like this would lead to many more opportunities. Less than one percent cut the mustard.  The Hotdogging positon lasts a year.

 “They had done their own research on the job and expressed to me that they were fully supportive and thought it was an incredible opportunity and I would be perfect for it. I remember my dad saying ‘I get it now’…They were so excited for me and were bubbling over with different

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Like the name of the channel itself, commercial segments between programs submit advertising jargon to a biting mockery; they use and abuse the rhetoric of neoliberal tech start-ups. After the unexpected success of a Kickstarter campaign last year, the Berlin-based artist Constant Dullaart launched DullTech, the company featured in his ad spot. The product, a USB-friendly media player for galleries, armed like a Trojan horse with Dullaart’s own work, is described as “awkward consumer electronics made in South China, under pressure to deliver on time.” In the commercial, a 3D model of a DullTech-branded airplane is visualized from different angles, flying through the sky, as a bubbly American voice reassures us that this is merely art masquerading as business. Each spot concludes with the deceptively upbeat tagline: “Always a Dull Moment.”

The first block of programming also features segments by Keren Cytter, Jeremy Shaw, and Christine Hill. “We asked for some form of exclusivity in the sense that what they submitted hadn’t been online before in the same format,” Maimon tells me. “Jeremy Shaw sent us parts of a well-known project that he wasn’t able to use in the final cut. Keren Cytter sent us behind-the-scenes material. A lot of her work is in private space; this one is shot in her apartment and you can hear her directing, so it’s quite a beautiful way to enter her practice. Christine Hill is not a video artist so, in her case, she collaborated with Ethan Hayes-Chute to make

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