Model Airplanes

The Apple Watch has been on the radar for so long that there’s plenty of information out there already. Following the Apple announcement you might think you know everything there is to know. But there are probably a few more cool things you aren’t aware of.

We’ve found some interesting Apple Watch tidbits that you should find eye-opening. These could make you want the Watch more or may end up putting you off. Either way it’s something worth knowing if you’re even considering splashing out on the new smart wrist-wear from Apple.

Skin safety

The Apple Watch may not have TouchID, despite being used to pay for things with Apple Pay, but that doesn’t mean security measures have been left out. A skin sensor will keep you secure.

When the watch is put on the wearer is asked to enter a security code. This then allows the watch to remain active for Apple Pay use. But should the watch leave the wearer’s skin it will no longer be able to make payments as it will be locked up. Brilliant, presuming it works well.

Leftie friendly

While Apple showed off its Watch on the left arm being used by a right hand, it’ll be friendly to lefties too.

Apple says the watch can be flipped over, with the straps moved to opposing ends, and it will work exactly the same on the other wrist, being controlled by a left hand.

Yes, Apple Watch designer Jony Ive is left handed.

Directions under the sleeve

Thanks to the Apple Watch’s haptic feedback it should

Article source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/133114-apple-watch-12-things-you-might-not-already-know

People who’ve never flown it have no idea how vast the Pacific Ocean is,” Kiwi Robin Leach told BCA. “You will be over water for 12 hours jetting from Auckland to San Francisco. Going the other way [i.e., west], headwinds can be a factor, and today [in mid-January] the jetstream is running south with strong winds.” 

Distance is the first thing flight crews “have to get their heads around” when preparing to fly the long, thin routes across the South Pacific, Leach emphasizes. This septuagenarian aviator should know: In addition to presiding over the Air Center One FBO in Auckland, Leach earns his living as a delivery pilot, ferrying everything from single-engine Cessna Caravans to Bombardier Global Expresses and Gulfstream 550s all over the world. Recently, he ferried a Caravan — its cabin stuffed with fuel tanks — from New Zealand to the U.S. West Coast. That one took more than 17 hr., including tech stops, all flown solo. Last month, he was scheduled to ferry a Beech King Air 350 from Auckland to Los Angeles, then pick up another one and pilot it back to New Zealand. He knows the South Pacific archipelagos like the back of his hand.

“So how far can my plane fly?” Leach asks. His rhetorical question sums up the essence of operating general aviation aircraft on the longest oceanic routes on the globe: Know your aircraft’s capabilities, as well as that of

Article source: http://aviationweek.com/bca/operating-south-pacific

Solar Powered Plane Starts World Tour

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A Swiss airplane powered only by energy from the sun left from Abu Dhabi early on March 9. Its creators hope the plane will make the first around-the-world journey without any fuel.

The plane is called Solar Impulse 2. It has one seat and is made from carbon fiber. The plane weighs only as much as a car but its wings are wider than a Boeing 747. The plane’s wings stretch 72 meters across.

Those wings include 17,000 solar units, or cells, that capture the sun’s energy. The energy allows the plane to fly day and night.

Two Swiss scientists built the plane. Bertrand Piccard is also an explorer who made the first non-stop flight around the world in a balloon. Andre [need accent! Can’t figure out how to make in this program!] Borschberg is an engineer and trained fighter pilot.

The scientists say they are not trying to change the airplane industry. Instead, they want to show that new energy sources and technologies can achieve what some say is impossible.

“We want to show we can fly day and night in an aircraft without a drop of fuel,” Mr. Piccard said.

Some parts of the trip will require the pilots to be in the tiny plane for five to six days and nights in a row. So it is good that the pilot’s seat is also a toilet.

The plane’s route begins in the United Arab

Article source: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/solar-power-plane-starts-world-tour/2673057.html

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Peter Barr has seen a lot of ocean in his 58 years. He’s worked as a hydrographer for oil and gas firms in the North Sea, off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks and, more recently, along the western coast of Africa. But the 60,000-sq.-km swath of southern Indian Ocean he helped search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, missing since last March, stands apart—not so much for what’s out there, but for what isn’t.

Barr didn’t see any other ships during his six-week stint aboard GO Phoenix, one of four official search vessels that have pinged the seabed with sonar over the past six months. Nor did he spot so much as a single dirty water bottle bobbing in the near-freezing swells, a rarity in today’s plastic-choked oceans. And, it goes without saying (as this magazine went to print), there’s been no sign so far of the missing Boeing 777, or its 239 passengers and crew.

“It’s very remote and it’s very rough,” says Barr, an Australian who spent nine years living in Canada and still regularly visits his wife’s family in Cape Breton, N.S.—a province that, incidentally, boasts a total land area about 5,000 sq. km smaller than the current “priority” search zone for MH370. The long, gently curving patch of ocean is in an area almost completely devoid of commercial shipping traffic and, until now, featured an unmapped sea floor more mysterious than the surface of the moon. What it lacks in evidence of mankind’s reach, however, it more than

Article source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/inside-the-search-for-flight-mh370-200349093.html

(NEW YORK) — For Marisa Merliss, movement is life. A dancer and a fitness model, she has even starred in workout videos like the Brazil Butt Life.

But like millions of Americans, Merliss is living in chronic pain, and after spending years of coping, she thinks she has finally found relief in a new body work system that targets our body’s connective tissue, called the MELT Method.

Only in her 30s, Merliss has already endured seven surgeries for a variety of injuries, including having two vertebrate in her spin fused together and having a hip operation.

After the spinal surgery, she said, “It was heartbreaking to not be able to move, not just dance, but [not] be active for three to four years.”

Merliss said the pain first started when her dance partner dropped her during a routine.

“I was dropped during a lift,” she said. “I was lifted overhead with a partner; it just went awry. I fell on my tailbone almost 7 feet.”

To manage the pain, Merliss said she tried for years with different therapies, from physical therapy to weekly trips to a chiropractor, but found little relief.

“It is just really frustrating that I can’t break through that,” she said. “I would say most of the time I am in some degree of pain. If I am being really honest, I think about [the pain] throughout the day.”

She’s not alone. It’s estimated that over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, costing almost $600 billion per year in health care expenses, lost wages

Article source: http://kticradio.com/abc_health/chronic-pain-sufferers-find-new-relief-in-melt-method-abcid35260566/