Model Airplanes

Today-May 7

•Exhibit: “Art of Hospice,” a collection of works by Louisiana and Mississippi artists celebrating the work of hospice professionals, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday or by appointment at (601) 755-4052, Lucile Parker Gallery, William Carey University, 512 Tuscan Ave.

Today-May 8

•Exhibit: Sophomore Art Exhibit currently on display in the Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery. This year’s featured sophomores are Andrew Adams from Hattiesburg, Chip Cooley from Laurel, Lauren DePriest from Pearl, Cassie Ezzell from Laurel, Shalanda Keys from Collins, Katy Mattison from Sandersville, Harley Perdue from Laurel, Cheyenne Sketo from Richton and Shavon Young from Taylorsville. Details: Call (601) 477-4148 or visit the gallery, which is open 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday. The gallery is closed for lunch daily from 11:30 a.m.-noon.

Today-June 24

•Exhibition: Mississippi Collegiate Art Faculty Juried Exhibition, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel. The galleries are open from 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Details: (601) 649-6374 or www.LRMA.org.

Today-May 8

•Exhibit: Southern Miss Department of Art and Design Art and Design Senior Show in Drawing, Painting and Sculpting; Reception: 5 p.m. April 30; Exhibit: April 30-May 8; Gallery of Art and Design, George Hurst Building, Hattiesburg campus.

Today

•Event: Melanoma Monday,

Article source: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/2015/05/03/community-calendar/26841969/

VANCEBORO | More than 80 aircraft, from jets to prop-planes to other-worldly helicopters, took to the air over Vanceboro on Saturday.

But the airspace wasn’t overrun. The biggest airplane was about five feet long.

It was the twice-annual Southern Air Club’s RC Fly-In show at which 40 pilots flew their remote controlled aircraft for the pleasure of each other and an audience that sometimes numbered as much as 200 during the day.

Forty fliers, but most of these ground-hugging pilots brought several airplanes to fly. They are serious remote control enthusiasts with some of their scale airplanes costing $3,000 and more, not including the $500 control box to fly them.

President Billy Davis estimated that he has 20 airplanes, a few of which took to the air in between his presidential duties as emcee, using a hand held microphone as he described the various airplanes in the air and explaining the kinds of stunts they were performing.

Davis, who has worked with aircraft at Cherry Point Marine air station for 37 years, says he plans to retire soon and turn to this hobby full time.

He said the club, which meets weekly to fly their planes at Gaskins Field, 1445 Old Brick Road, welcomes newbies as well as experienced fliers.

“We fly everything,” he said, “from foamies to the big biplanes.”

A “foamie” is a smaller, beginner style of remote control plane, by the way. It gets its name from the fact that it is generally made of a

Article source: http://www.newbernsj.com/news/local/twice-annual-event-draws-80-rc-aircraft-to-vanceboro-1.472966

Don Stover hates to throw things away.

Not only does he recycle, reuse and repurpose, he makes a living out of repairing items that otherwise would go into a landfill.

“It just breaks my heart when I can’t fix something,” said Don, 58, of Greenville.

That was the case with an old Motorola radio that someone brought into his shop, Don’s Uniques Repairs.

“I couldn’t get the parts,” said Don, a laid-back man with a long ponytail, salt-and-pepper beard and oval, wire-rimmed glasses.

But many customers are amazed at what he can repair.

“I call him the ‘miracle guy,’” said Leanna Clark, 63, an artist who lives in Herrick. “He just has a knack for seeing what the problem is and fixing it.”

Leanna and her husband, Steve, a farmer, took Don an 1830s regulator clock that had stopped running. He found and installed the necessary part.

Don also repaired two cameras and a weather radio for the Clarks, but the clock meant the most.

“It’s about much more than money,” Leanna said. “(The clock) belonged to Steve’s great-grandfather. The insides are new, but you can see the age on the face. You can just imagine how many people have heard it ticking.”

Don’s current project is fixing a guitar amplifier. On a recent afternoon, he used a digital ohmmeter to test its power-supply fuses.

Do-it-yourself philosophy

People travel to Don’s Uniques Repairs from as far away as Carbondale with their guitars, lamps, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners and other non-working stuff.

“It’s just great to have somebody

Article source: http://www.bnd.com/living/magazine/article20115447.html

She was adventurous and forever curious. Always open to discovering what was around each corner, the next bend in the road, over the hills and far away, beyond the pines, mountains and mesas of the horizon. We’d often spend days on impromptu and spontaneous road trips to nowhere, just to see, experience and explore the world around us. No destination, no expectations. Just a mutual love of being together and respect for the sublimity of the unknown, the unexpected, the roads less traveled. I’d revel in the expression on her face, and the joy in her heart, as the possibilities and landscape unfolded, pulling us deeper into our own mother/son prodigal bond and adventure. She particularly loved the solitude of the desert…Joshua Tree, the desolate parts of Route 66, the dusty roads of Sonora and Chihuahua. They were mystical and wonderful places to her, and her eyes sparkled with the same hues of blue, pink, purple, ochre, amber and green that are the desert. Sometimes, we both quietly wept as we drove, windows down, the warm desert air leaving trails of dried and streaked salt down the contours of our cheeks. Tears of joy, beauty and despair. Silently,

Article source: http://observer.com/2015/05/sevdalyn-christine-sunshine-claycomb-brooks-1939-2015/

(Photo : Reuters) An Airbus employee presents three model airplanes in blue, white and red, made from starch using a 3D printing technique during the opening of 50th Paris Air Show.

Jetpack maker Martin Aircraft welcomed a delegation to its titanium 3D printing facilities in Tauranga, according to a report on New Zealand Herald. 3D printing is a method of forming titanium components by piling layers upon layers of titanium powder and fortifying them with lasers.

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The report revealed chairman Jon Mayson hosted the tour, which include Kuang-Chi Science (KCS) founder and chairman Dr. Ruopeng Liu, KCS co-founder Weizi Huang, investment manager Henry Zhang, and Martin Aircraft’s chief executive Peter Coker. KCS is a technology company that places its portfolio in “disruptive technologies.”

Mayson told The Herald that they invited their investors to tour the premises “to explore potential areas of future collaboration for both Martin Aircraft and for KCS.”

Liu, a specialist on metamaterials, said he’s optimistic about the rise of titanium 3D printing in the country. “In terms of applications, there is a new era of building things,” Dr. Liu said. “Manufacturing used to be about chopping away, but the technology here is all about adding – it’s a type of metamaterial. I think it’s the trend for the industry. We can see the potential that people can print almost anything.”

Elsewhere, the titanium market has been making a lot of progress.

Article source: http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/48011/20150501/chinese-investors-martin-aircrafts-3d-printing-facility-in-new-zealand.htm