Model Airplanes

In a story March 12 about a cargo plane crash in Texas, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a plane’s stick shaker signals an imminent engine stall. A stick shaker warns of an impending stall from a loss of aerodynamic lift from the wings.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Cargo plane appears to have hit turbulence before crash

A Boeing 767 cargo plane appears to have hit turbulence just a minute before it dropped into a rapid descent and smashed into a Texas bay in February killing all three people aboard

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By JAKE BLEIBERG

Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — A Boeing 767 appears to have hit turbulence a minute before it entered a steep descent that ended when the plane smashed into a Texas bay in February, killing all three people aboard, according to federal authorities.

“Small vertical accelerations” suggest Atlas Air Flight 3591 entered turbulence soon after the pilots had descended to avoid a band of precipitation as they approached a Houston airport, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Tuesday.

Seconds after leveling off around 6,200 feet, the cargo plane’s engines surged to “maximum thrust” and it briefly pointed its nose 4 degrees up, according to flight data. The jet then rapidly swung to point 49 degrees downward and began its drop toward the muddy bay, the federal agency said.

An NTSB spokesman, Keith Holloway, said it is still investigating the underlying cause of the sharp change in pitch.

It’s a move

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Perspective is best defined as a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

Boeing, based near Seattle, Washington, is an American corporation that in addition to many products, designs, manufactures and sells airplanes. Boeing is among the largest aircraft manufacturers, as well as one of the largest defense contractors. It’s the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. William Boeing was the aviation pioneer who founded Boeing in 1916 manufacturing seaplanes. Fast forward through two world wars and the realization that there was a market for commercial aircraft, and by 1958, Boeing began delivery of its 707, the United States first commercial jet airliner. The next decade saw the 707 and 747 as the backbone of many airline fleets, a near monopoly held by Boeing into the ‘70s. Boeing continue to roll out new planes; the 747, still in use today, originated in 1968.

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Article source: https://www.jpost.com/International/Keep-the-737-MAX-issues-in-perspective-584397

Over the course of 75 Saturdays, a group of teens will build an airplane at Hillsboro Airport.

Not a remote-controlled model — an actual aircraft that will take each of them up in the air.

TeenFlight is a program of Airway Science for Kids. The nonprofit was founded in 1993 by Bob Strickland, to introduce aviation concepts to elementary and middle school students — particularly children of color, those from low-income families, girls, and other kids who might face barriers to receiving STEM education. Young students build drones and use computer flight simulators to get hands-on experience in science, technology, engineering and math.

About ten years ago, Dick VanGrunsven, founder of Van’s Aircraft, wanted to take the concept even further. For high school age students, he proposed a “TeenFlight” program to actually build one of his company’s kit planes, the two-seater RV-12.

VanGrunsven grew up on a small farm near Forest Grove and had been fascinated with aviation since childhood.

“Some people, you’re interested in being a fireman or policeman or various things,” he said. “My brother and I, we were both interested in model airplanes. It was just always an obsession.”

He founded Van’s Aircraft in 1973. Today, VanGrunsven is partly retired. The employee-owned company, based out of the Aurora airport, is one of the largest kit plane manufacturers in the world.

With TeenFlight, VanGrunsven said he wanted to offer teens an experience he would have loved himself as a high school student.

“We know

Article source: https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2019/03/oregon-teens-are-building-airplanes-on-the-weekend-through-teen-flight-video.html

Battlefield 5 has received a big new update to add Firestorm, overhaul plane combat, and bring a host of fixes.

Today’s Battlefield 5 update is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Size varies by platform, but you’re looking at a 7-10GB download. There does appear to be an issue on PC where the game is downloading 28GB instead, but it’s not yet clear if this is a widespread problem or a download hiccup.

The biggest addition in today’s update is Firestorm, the game’s battle royale mode. Firestorm won’t be playable until Monday, March 25, however. What you will make use of today are a couple of welcome tweaks to air combat in Battlefield 5.

In an effort to raise the skill ceiling, and make dogfights more exciting, DICE has a made a few changes to the plane physics model. The short version is that pilots will now have to pay more attention to gravity, stalling, and speed.

Today’s update also improves the quality of Nvidia’s DLSS on PC for 1440p, and 4K. Beyond that, you can look forward to many bug fixes across soldier combat, as well as vehicles. We’ve included all changes below.

Air combat overhaul

Wings and ailerons

• Flap Scaling has been tweaked to give less manoeuvrability at speeds under 200 kmh.
• Drag Coefficient is now less extreme at 90-degree angles to remove “floatiness” at low speed.
• Going slow will now more heavily impact your ability to manoeuvre your plane.

Elevator and rudder

• Drag Coefficients for elevators and rudders have been separated

  Article source: https://www.vg247.com/2019/03/21/battlefield-5-firestorm-patch-plane-combat-revamp-changes/