Model Airplanes

Footage from the Capital Area Radio Drone Squadron planes.

GRAND LEDGE – Members of a long-established model airplane club fret that anti-drone regulations will put their beloved hobby into a tailspin.

So they are speaking up.

The proliferation of toy drones called quadcopters — and anti-drone regulations — worry members of the Capital Area Radio-Drone Squadron, which dates back to 1970.

Since December, DeWitt and East Lansing, concerned about safety and privacy, approved ordinances that limit the flights of unmanned aircraft. And the Federal Aviation Administration for the first time required unmanned flying models to be registered by Feb. 19. The Capitol Commission last year banned flights over the Capitol.

For nearly 30 years, CARDS members have been joyfully — and with little attention — piloting their unmanned aircraft on a 10-acre plot south of Grand Ledge surrounded by farmland. The club owns the land on Otto Road and has a garage and picnic shelter.

Now they want to stop flying under the radar. They are reaching

Article source: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinion/columnists/judy-putnam/2016/04/22/putnam-model-aircraft-hobbyists-fret-over-drone-regs/83338322/

Boeing Co. is ramping up its push into the parts business, as part of a broad effort to cut costs and secure a new source of revenue even more lucrative than making aircraft.

In the past, airlines could purchase parts directly from one of Boeing’s largest suppliers, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc., allowing it to diversify its business beyond the 80% of its sales linked to jet production at the Chicago-based plane maker.

But…

Article source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-ramps-up-push-into-the-airplane-parts-business-1461317403

In a step toward the biggest prize in military rotorcraft, replacing the U.S. Army’s large fleet of Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks, Bell Helicopter has mated the wing and fuselage of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor. Later this year, in a rival step, the Sikorsky/Boeing team will begin final assembly of its SB-1 Defiant coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter.

Both advanced rotorcraft are on schedule to fly late in 2017 under the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) technology demonstration, precursor to the planned Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative to replace all of the Pentagon’s helicopter fleets.

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The Army is scheduled to make a decision in October to launch a two-year analysis of alternatives for the first FVL vehicle. The Army has not said which of the five identified FVL Capability Sets will be first, but industry says indications are the service will stick with its plan to begin with the medium-utility UH-60 replacement—Capability Set 3.

The 280-kt. V-280 and 250-kt. SB-1 are being built to demonstrate the benefits of higher speed and longer range for missions now performed by the Black Hawk. Additionally, Bell aims to showcase the V-280’s hover performance and prove a tiltrotor can be produced at significantly lower cost

Article source: http://aviationweek.com/defense/jmr-fast-rotorcraft-demonstrators-begin-take-shape

About 50 percent of all businesses fail within five years. Only a quarter make it to the 15-year mark. Even then, the majority of survivors will be small operations, often based in a home.

So it is that companies like Anthem, VISA, Microsoft and Facebook are the extreme exceptions, businesses that not only beat the odds, but went on to become household names, creating thousands of jobs and redefining their industries.

At FindTheCompany, a data site that’s part of the Graphiq network, we went back to 1944 to find the most successful company founded the year you were born. In order to define success, we ranked more than 10,000 companies traded on U.S. exchanges by recent market capitalization (calculated in late March, 2016). A company’s market cap is essentially its total net worth: the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the share price.

Determining the exact founding year for some companies can be difficult, given the frequency of spinoffs, mergers and acquisitions. For this reason, we turned to Field-Ritter, which carefully tracks the history of every business with an IPO from 1975 through the present day. For example, Field-Ritter defaults to the oldest founding year among two merging companies, even if the name of the original company changes.

Most of today’s big companies – even those founded in the ’40s and ’50s – went public in this modern timeframe, but it’s

Article source: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_29794025/what-was-most-successful-company-founded-year-you

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