Sentences with phrase «airfix model planes»

He soloed in an airplane before getting his driver's license, but his real obsession was designing and building model planes.

In order to make a small model plane, you first need to pick a good quality material, then figure out how to do it and in what order to connect the parts, and in the end to finish it off in an esthetic way.

The printers can produce objects from model planes to robot toys in layers, in some cases spitting out glue to affix each new layer like frosting on a tiered cake.

Launched via radio control (model plane enthusiasts take note), the aircraft (each weighing more than 60 pounds and with wingspans of nearly six feet) followed programmed routes.

Insufficient fuel is the main obstacle to long - duration flight, so Bushman and his colleagues developed a model plane that gets its power from wing - mounted photovoltaic cells wired to the craft's propeller.

That's the handiwork of another MacCready who happens to inhabit the same body: the sky's - the - limit inventor who parlayed a preternatural talent with model planes into Da Vinci - like human - and solar - powered vehicles that shattered the world's notion of the limitations of such machines, the passionate naturalist who gets teary - eyed talking about the monarch butterfly and the sooty tern, the easygoing fellow who accessorizes his blazer, tie, and gray slacks outfit with black sneakers.

For this week's production entry on Ender's Game blog, we get a look at Ender's bedroom, which is full of knickknacks, space decals, and model planes.

That's when the plot dissolves into a post-concussion haze of toys leading bombing runs from model planes, midnight karate fights, teenagers whipping out their wieners in the middle of the street, a hospital housing the «products of incest» (giant monsters with superhuman strength), a toy factory that doubles as a studio producing Satanic kiddie porn and citizens turning into life - sized porcelain dolls.

Jim's life is upside down: his father is out of work and spends his days on the couch watching TV or flying model planes; his mother is the hard - working breadwinner; his sister Becky has stopped washing her armpits and has a biker boyfriend Jim calls Craterface; and Jim is worried he will be expelled from school due to his less - than - stellar academic performance.

Sure you can make a model plane or boat, but unless it's a major craft project like say an actual boat made out of wood, then you don't really get much use out of it aside from it serving as a nice handmade display item.

I'd rather pay $ 80 for the Toy - Con 1 and $ 100 for the Toy - Con 2 and see them made of the same plastic that model planes are made of.

The series journeys through history exploring iconography and idealism across a cultural spectrum, from model planes and boats inspired by Communist China's food coupons of the 1950s and 1960s to portraits of fallen dictators.

A retro installation of zooming model planes.

In his left hand the man holds a model plane.

MARTIN KERSELS Charm (Cloud Seeder) 2011 Model plane, wire, fabric, rope, power cord, light sockets, light bulbs 28 by 75 by 58 in.

He depicts the Coventry housing estate where he grew up and uses Humbrol enamel paint, the type used to decorate model planes in Airfix kits, as another reminder of his childhood.

His work is painted entirely with Humbrol enamel paint normally used by model plane makers and focuses on images of the mundane, the everyday and the overlooked in the Tile Hill council estate.

By the mid-1990s, he was using model planes from sets, which he represented in two dimensions but with an abstract tendency.

The contemporary... used on model planes.

I thought her story of the model plane was most apposite.

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Assembler resume - 3 December 2017 When Maxine was growing up she could assemble model planes without looking at the instructions.

Unexpected touches from designer Giampiero Panepinto include zinged - up shades — turquoise, hip orange and punchy primaries — and zany, surreal artwork, including giant Perspex boxes of American Beauty-esque rose petals and a montage of Pan Am model planes.

Not exact matches

Southwest has said it planned to complete ultrasonic inspections on all fan blades on the some 700 planes in its fleet with the CFM56 - 7B engines, the model involved in last month's blowout, over the next two weeks, meeting the FAA's August deadline by mid-May.

In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient models.

They then used the data to model how germs are spread between around planes.

«Our fighter planes took normal tactical measures, identifying the models of the Chinese planes and flying aerial surveillance until they left,» the South Korean military said, as quoted by Reuters.

«Let's get that technician walking around with a ruggedized tablet and a 3 - D GPS pen that can trace the damage on the plane and upload it right onto a 3 - D model.»

It even lists which plane models have electrical outlets, TVs, and earphone jacks.

The fact that investigators and officials are fairly confident that the debris is from a Boeing 777 is significant because MH370 is the only missing plane in the world of that model.

Smith wanted shipments to be faster and more efficient, so he modeled FedEx to be like a bank clearing house, except with planes and trucks.

The two models of the narrow - bodied single - aisle plane are quiet and 20 % more fuel efficient than other similar - sized jets, while also offering decent leg room, unlike other planes of the same size.

Boeing needs to win support for the proposed plane from Southwest Airlines, which has ordered the smallest model 737s, as well as United Continental Holdings Inc, the Journal reported.

An agency has for each girl an account, and if they need to have the girl come from Arizona to New York in order to build her portfolio, the agency will front the expenses for her plane ticket, for paying the photographers, for printing the photos, for the physical portfolio itself, for the comp cards that need to be developed, for the retouching, for new clothes to go on castings with, for a model apartment for her to stay in.»

Last week, Air Canada announced it was buying 61 Boeing 737 Max planes, the new repowered version of its popular model, also a competitor of the CSeries.

Discount carriers like Southwest and JetBlue were reshaping the industry with cheap fares and an easy - to - understand business model: fly one type of plane, sell only economy - class seats and treat passengers like human beings.

Older versions of the plane, the A through D models, have problems with cabin pressure whereas the newer Super Hornet and Growler issues «would appear to point to the onboard oxygen generating» system to which the Navy» has already made changes.

Each time he visited the offices of Russian oligarchs or Middle Eastern royals, he found they invariably displayed a model of their private planes.

He was an avid flyer, and less than a month ago was featured on Icon Aircraft's website (a piece that has since been removed) as the first person to receive a Model Year 2018 A5 plane.

This model has a very compact one - hand fold and meets carry - on requirements so you cant take it on board of any air plane.

Scale Most remote control airplanes are modeled based on real planes.

Theoretical models of galaxy formation produce this arrangement less than 0.5 % of the time, and the researchers suggest that these planes of satellites might instead be the product of ancient collisions between massive galaxies.

«Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations: Astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A.» ScienceDaily.

The research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation and reported October 11th in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, involved building a computer model to simulate the interaction between the two facets of a folded sheet, including how easily and how far the folds would bend and how much the flat planes would deform during movement.

I've seen many models, and they all show a flat plane, with the black hole sinking down into what looks like an odd - shaped hole in a flat plane.

Google generates the 3D models that populate Google Earth by using a fleet of camera - equipped planes that fly over cities snapping photos.

Prata says sensors like those he is developing at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) in Kjeller could keep planes flying by letting them finesse the educated guesses of models to reveal ash - free patches and routes.

Measured along the longest plane, models with the octagons were nearly 20 percent better at transporting phonons than those without.

Generalizing the standard model of flocking motion to the curved surface of a sphere rather than the usual linear plane or flat three - dimensional space, Bowick's team found that instead of spreading out uniformly over the whole sphere, arrowlike agents spontaneously order into circular bands centered on the equator.

The viability of the novel tool was shown for different mechanical templates: for waving wind - up toys, periodic motions of hand models, steerable and motorized RC cars, and for vehicles with moveable rotors such as helicopters and planes.