Model Airplanes

“Zero Project” turns art gallery into airplane hangar

By Randall S. Barton on February 04, 2016 11:38 AM

Reed students assemble the Zero Project by Katsushige Nakahashi in the Cooley Art Gallery. The project involves stitching together more than 25,000 individual photographs.
Daniel Cronin

It’s an airplane. It’s a puzzle. It’s a work of art.

The monumental Zero Project is currently on display in Reed’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery, transforming the gallery into a surreal “hangar” and turning students into crewmembers who have taken a hands-on role in constructing the project, painstakingly stitching more than 25,000 individual photographs into a single gargantuan image.

Eschewing mimesis for collaborative assembly, Zero Project is the brainchild of artist Katsushige Nakahashi. As a boy, he played with a plastic scale model of the aircraft flown by Imperial Japanese Navy kamikaze pilots during WWII— the Mitsubishi A6M Zero warplane.

“After assembling the model I would run with it, imagining that I was the pilot,” he says. “In the course of playing with it, the plastic airplane would slowly

Article source: http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2015/zero-project-art-gallery.html

2/5/2016

The attraction for the February edition of the monthly “Fly-In Breakfast” set for tomorrow at the Ponca City Airport — aside from a bountiful breakfast at a pittance of a price — will be, as always, the aircraft on hand. The monthly breakfast is hosted by the Ponca City Aviation Foundation.

This month, many of the visiting aircraft will be scaled down. Not in number, but in actual size. The Good Ole Okie Flying Society (GOOFS) will be on hand Saturday to show-and-tell about radio controlled (R/C) model aviation.

These are variously small to large model aircraft, including airplanes, helicopters and drones, which are self-powered and controlled remotely by an operator using a hand-held transmitter.

Members of GOOFS will be on hand with examples of aircraft and will be ready to answer questions about the hobby.

The GOOFS have a model flying field on the east side of Ponca City. Each summer the GOOFS conduct an R/C model flying seminar for Northern Oklahoma Flight Academy students and also host a yearly model aircraft “fun fly” event at their flying field for area modelers.

The monthly fly-in breakfast occurs on the first Saturday of the month — rain or shine.

This Saturday will see the usual buffet breakfast menu as well as aircraft flying in from a large area of northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas.

These aircraft will also be available for inspection by the public.

The breakfast is also available to the drive-in public. Adults are $7 and children are $4. Breakfast is served from 7-10 a.m.

Proceeds of

Article source: http://www.poncacitynews.com/Airport-Breakfast-Set-Saturday

F-35A

WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall signaled in December that the F-35 was no longer immune from budget cuts and it looks as if he knew what he was talking about.

The story out this afternoon is that five Air Force F-35As will be cut from the fiscal 2017 budget request. Mackenzie Eaglen said at a Brookings Institution event Monday that the F-35 program was simply the biggest source of cash in the room and should be cut to help fund the Navy’s beefed-uo presence in the Pacific. Since the Marines will deploy their first F-35B squadron to Iwakuni, Japan early next year, it may be that the Pentagon leadership made the decision that air assets in the Pacific were substantive enough to trim the Air Force buy for balance.

Colleague Sara Seligman at Defense News is reporting — from one source, so exercise caution — that the Air Force will request 43 F-35As, down from the previously planned 48. The Air Force had planned to boost its purchases to 60 in 2018. J.J. Gertler, aviation expert at the Congressional Research Service, estimates that trimming that buy to a steady 48 would save $1 billion a year.

But this cut is not happening in a vacuum. A senior defense official told us last week that the Navy will accelerate its purchases of

Article source: http://breakingdefense.com/2016/02/air-force-f-35-buy-trimmed-while-navy-model-boosted/

At first glance, Rick Carlisle and Chandler Parsons don’t have much in common. Carlisle is a 56-year-old family man who lives peacefully in Dallas when not working, playing the piano and flying single-engine airplanes in his free time. Parsons is 27, with a glamour-filled playboy lifestyle, a supermodel girlfriend, a side gig as a model and an affinity for vodka Red Bulls.

Their paths crossed, of course, two summers ago, when the Dallas Mavericks stole Parsons away from the Houston Rockets on a three-year, $46-million deal. Carlisle quickly assumed the role of Mr. Miyagi, teaching a brash student how to play the game through sometimes mysterious methods.

The two butted heads again on Wednesday, with Carlisle sitting Parsons for the final six minutes of the Mavericks’ 93-90 loss to the Miami Heat until he reinserted him as a defensive substitution with 26 seconds to play — something Parsons called “definitely strange” in an interview with ESPN Dallas.

Here’s a complete timeline of the relationship between Parsons and Carlisle since the former arrived in Dallas.

2014

Oct. 11: Carlisle calls Parsons overweight

In September, on the first day of training camp, Carlisle was asked about Parsons’ weight gain and said, “One man’s bulking up is another man’s not quite in shape yet.” Shortly after preseason games began, Carlisle did it again. It wasn’t until a preseason loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, though, that Carlisle really called Parsons out.

“He looked tired out there tonight

Article source: http://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2016/2/4/10917296/chandler-parsons-rick-carlisle-quirky-relationship-mavericks-benched