These model planes are not for kids

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Writer

See for yourself today through Saturday at Paradise Field on the south side of Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. The three-day event called 12 O’Clock High is billed as a high-flying historical display of military history, featuring some of the nation’s most experienced pilots.

Two decades ago, most planes of this type were limited in size. It was rare for a radio-controlled plane in the amateur hobbyist category to exceed 5 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Today, many aircraft are twice that size, costing as much as $50,000.

“People still fly the small stuff, but at these events you’d be hard-pressed to find a plane with a wing span of less than 90 inches,” said Frank Tiano, the promoter of this event and several others. “It (12 O’Clock High) is one of the more unique radio control events in the country.”

Admission for each day is $10, and there’s no charge for children 11 and younger. Parking is free, and chairs are provided. Entrance to the event is at 3875 W. Pipkin Road, at Air Show Road. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Plenty of food will be available for purchase, and numerous vendors will be on hand with merchandise to appeal to anyone with an interest in radio-controlled aircraft.

Spectators can expect to see numerous scale replicas of military planes, such as a World War II B-29 bomber powered by four chain saw engines, and a World War I-era Italian biplane with a wingspan of 10 feet.

Like speed? The turbine-powered, radio-controlled jets on hand

Article source: http://www.theledger.com/article/20151015/news/151019765

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Turkey’s plane project hits turbulence – Al

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Writer

Turkey’s plane project hits turbulence

Author: Barın Kayaoğlu Posted October 14, 2015

Turkey’s first passenger jet project is experiencing turbulence. The TRJet program is expected to produce the country’s first regional passenger jet by 2019, but there is a problem. According to Hurriyet newspaper’s Washington correspondent Tolga Tanis, the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defense Industries has informed TRJet’s lead manufacturer, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), that at least 70% of the new aircraft must be produced in Turkey. Based in the United States and owned by the Turkish American husband-wife couple Fatih and Eren Ozmen, SNC argues that a 70% target before 2023 is unrealistic.

Additional reports in the Turkish press and by experts who spoke to Al-Monitor point to bigger problems that could keep the billion dollar TRJet project grounded come 2019. On the one hand, demand from domestic and international airline companies may be insufficient. Furthermore, although Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hope the experience and know-how from the prestige project would help to expand Turkey’s still-infant defense and aerospace industries, whether the country’s state-owned Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) will be involved in TRJet is still unclear.

To appreciate the emotional weight of a domestically produced airplane for Turkey, a short history lesson is in

Article source: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/turkey-passenger-plane-project-hits-economic-problems.html

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Coping with aerospace manufacturing complexity

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Writer

Seyer Industries is experiencing rapid growth in its aerospace component manufacturing operations – both ground support and flight components for commercial aviation and defense customers. To keep pace with vast amounts of production and manufacturing process development work, the company is relying heavily on the advanced capabilities of its CAM software Mastercam, by CNC Software Inc., Tolland, Connecticut.

Until 2004, Seyer Industries concentrated primarily on manufacturing parts and assemblies for aerospace ground support equipment. At that time, an important second tier aerospace customer took note of Seyer’s consistent quality and on-time deliveries and asked if the company would manufacture flight parts and assemblies.

“Today, flight components constitute about 40% of Seyer’s business, and that percentage is growing rapidly,” says Mark Seyer, vice president of manufacturing. “Competing for flight parts is a high-risk, high-reward venture because of the heavy investment required in advanced CNC equipment and product development man-hours that are essential to obtaining significant contracts.”

Between 2006 and 2008, driven largely by aerospace work, Seyer Industries nearly doubled in size. Workforce shrank a bit during the lean years of the economic downturn, but today, the aerospace business is robust, and the company is attacking it with 154 kanban-trained workers and multi-axis manufacturing processes.
 

Programming and planning

Ray Gaudette started working in the shop as a machinist shortly after the first influx of flight parts business. Within weeks he was assigned Mastercam programming responsibilities and a few years after that became supervisor of the programmers. Today he is manager of programming and manufacturing planning. He

Article source: https://www.onlineamd.com/article/amd1015-advanced-CAM-capabilities-aerospace

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A Neuroscience Treasure Hunt

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Writer

Each of us is unique, with our own strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies. While this is a truism everyone grasps intuitively, it’s been difficult to determine if and how this individuality is reflected in brain activity.

To investigate, my colleagues and I looked at brain images from volunteers scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or
fMRI. This technique measures neural activity via blood flow in the brain while people are awake and mentally active. We calculated a “functional connectivity profile” for each person based on their individual patterns of synchronized activity between different parts of the brain.

In fact, it turns out that the ebb and flow of brain activity is like a fingerprint: each person has their own signature pattern,
according to our study just published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Using only their connectivity profiles, we could identify individuals from a group. Based purely on these profiles, we could also predict how people would perform on one type of intelligence test.

Trading the forest for the trees

fMRI is the best tool we have to study what goes on in a living, thinking human brain in a safe and noninvasive way. And yet fMRI data is notoriously noisy – lots of things influence the signal at any given time, and only some of them are related to the actual brain activity that we care about.

This is why, traditionally, fMRI studies average together data from many different people: the idea is that by finding common patterns of brain activity, we

Article source: https://www.braindecoder.com/a-neuroscience-treasure-hunt-1402552789.html

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US welcomes Netherlands report on downed flight MH17

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Writer

(Vatican Radio)  The United States says Tuesday’s release of the report by a Netherlands-led investigative panel could help prosecute those responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine last July which killed all 298 people on board.

Listen to Stefan Bos’ report:


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The White House made the announcement after the Dutch Safety Board said the aircraft was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile fired from an area in eastern Ukraine that is controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

After 15 long months, the Dutch Safety Board presented its long awaited report to anxious relatives of those who died in one of the world’s worst attacks against civil aviation, and later to journalists.

Speaking in front of the reconstructed plane – pieced together from parts of recovered debris, fitted around a metal skeleton, Board Chairman Tjibbe Joustra said there was only one scenario to explain the disaster, which killed all 298 people on board.

Joustra made clear his panel was convinced that the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile fired from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

Massive detonation

“Flight MH17 crashed as a result of the detonation of a warhead outside of the airplane, above the left hand side of the cockpit,” he explained. 

“This warhead was of the 9M314M type carried on the kind of missile that is installed on the Buk surface-to-air missile system. As a result of the detonation the forward

Article source: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/10/13/us_welcomes_netherlands_report_on_downed_flight_mh17/1179167

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Review: Alabeo – DA40 for X-Plane

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Writer

Publisher: Alabeo

Review Author:
Shawn Weigelt

Suggested Price:
$26.95


Introduction

The aviation world is constantly
evolving and improving. Within the past couple of decades or so,
great technological strides have been made with the development of
advanced polymer and composite materials used in airplane
construction. Aircraft fuselages, wings, and control surfaces can
now be molded out of single pieces of fiberglass, polymer, or carbon
fiber rather than with sheets of aluminum riveted together as in ages
past. The use of such modern materials in airplane construction not
only reduces the number of parts required to construct an aircraft,
but also often make them lighter, stronger, and more flexible.
Further, smooth, streamlined shapes once impossible to create through
metal or rag-and-tube construction methods are now fashioned into
wonderfully sleek, aerodynamically clean forms that can dramatically
increase the speed and efficiency of airplanes.



   


   

The Austrian company Diamond Aircraft has become a general
aviation industry leader with their manufacture of several types of
GA airplanes, all of them built with modern composite construction.

Diamond’s DA40 was the company’s four-place, single engine piston
entry into the certified GA market. Based upon the company’s
two-seat trainer, the DA20, the four-seat DA40 was first flown in
1997. Diamond manufactured the DA40 in basically three versions: the
Lycoming IO-360 powered DA40 with a constant speed prop, the diesel
powered DA40D, and the fixed pitch propeller Lycoming O-360 powered
DA40F. The constant speed, IO-360

Article source: http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?16188-Review-Alabeo-DA40-for-X-Plane

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#ChicEats: Drinking Whiskey with Anthony Bourdain

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Writer

​Over the past couple of years, New York’s whiskey scene has exploded, with specialized whiskey bars opening all over the city and regular bar-goers opting out of a glass of wine for the classic brown drink. No one knows this better than Anthony Bourdain​. With a brand-new partnership with The Balvenie single malt Scotch whiskey and a major food hall set to open in New York City within the next few years, who better to talk shop with than the food-world icon​? Here, our interview with the chef and host of ​Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown​ on CNN.

Harper’s BAZAAR: Whiskey is so in right now. Do you think it has to do with an obsession with all things ’70s or something else?

Anthony Bourdain: I think it’s something else. It’s a young, folky thing going on. It’s a revival of classic cocktails and some renewed interest in old school. The ’70s are a wildly-overrated decade. I would not want to live my life over again, just because of the ’70s actually. Once was enough. There’s a great quote, I think it’s from Denis Leary, “If you’re looking to scare people away from you, just tell them what pants you were wearing in the ’70s.”




HB: Have you ever found a great whiskey in an unexpected place?

AB: The way

Article source: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/travel-dining/a12535/interview-with-anthony-bourdain/

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