Model Airplanes

The Gulfstream Girl can’t use that nickname anymore. In 2013, the model turned pilot—then 27, blond, often beaming in photos—was hit with a trademark infringement suit by Gulfstream Aerospace, which told her its brand name was off-limits.

That must have been a disappointment. As a commercial pilot, the former Gulfstream Girl, whose real name is Nadia Marcinko and before that Nadia Marcinkova, holds three rating certificates: for single-engine aircraft, multi-engine aircraft, and various Gulfstream business jets, which have their own rating certificates. Furthermore, she is the CEO of Aviloop, a supremely odd aviation branding business, whose website features flawless shots of her with Gulfstreams.

Marcinko was a good sport about losing her old handle. In the Miami Herald last year, Julie Brown reported that Marcinko was “brought” to the US from (the former) Yugoslavia to live with an abusive man more than 30 years her senior when she was 15. It’s not hard to imagine she’s adept at survival. Moreover, as an aerobatic pilot, she’s stylish and dashing; in a video from March 2018 (taken down just last week), she flips a Pitts S2B and then eats a doughnut, hanging from a ribbon, while upside down in the cockpit. In materials for Aviloop, she now calls herself Global Girl.

Marcinko’s shifting sobriquets bring to mind the opening to Vladimir Nabokov’s novel of child rape. “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning … She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores

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Reeves, David L., – 60, of Woodbine, and formerly of Belleplain died Tuesday July 16, 2019 at Shore Memorial Hospital. Born in Cape May Court House, NJ he was the son of George Reeves and the late Judith A. Creamer Reeves. David grew up in Delmont and resided most of his life in Belleplain. He was a dedicated employee of Shoemaker Lumber in Ocean City where he was a Fork Lift Operator. David enjoyed hunting, archery, riding his Harley, flying model airplanes, and being with his family. Surviving are his sons, David J. Reeves, Adam E. Reeves, step daughter, Elizabeth Creamer, step son, Brian Creamer, companion, Sandy Creamer, father, George Reeves, sister, Mary Reeves, brother, Tom Swagger, 8 grandchildren, and numerous great grandchildren. Services will be held at a later date. To email condolences and or tributes please visit www.hoffmanfuneralhomes.net

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An older model airplane ran off the runway at Baldwin County Regional Airport on Saturday morning, but fortunately, no one was injured.

The incident involving a 1964 Maule M4-210 aircraft, owned and piloted by Hubert Eugene Owen, of Eatonton, sent a host of first responders to the scene, including firefighters from Baldwin County Fire Rescue, as well as personnel from Grady Emergency Medical Services, and deputies from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.

Neither Owen, 76, nor his passenger, John Howard Dunn, of Covington, were injured in the incident, which happened shortly after 11 a.m.

Attempts by The Union-Recorder to speak with the pilot were unsuccessful. The newspaper was, however, able to reach the passenger.

“There’s nothing to tell you, really,” Dunn said. “The airplane just ran off the side of the runway, and that was it.”

The plane was landing at the time.

Dunn said Owen had taken off from a private airstrip in Jasper County and that they were landing at Baldwin County Regional Airport.

“We were just going to go there and shoot some landings in the area and then fly back,” Dunn said. 

Bruce Hood, who manages Baldwin County Regional Airport for Sinclair Aviation Services, said the incident caused the aircraft’s prop to become stuck in the grass on the far end of the runway on the Lake Sinclair side and prevented the pilot from being able to fly without his aircraft getting repaired.

“Once

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