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Article source: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/07/19/apollo-11-moon-landing-anniversary-gus-grissom-remembered-in-indiana-hometown/1745720001/

The dreaded middle airplane seat is about to come with a silver lining.

On 50 mystery passenger planes, set for delivery in 2020, middle seat passengers will get their own arm rest space, plus about two more inches of seat width compared to their right and left row mates.

Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration certified the new design, created by Molon Labe Seating, a startup engineering firm based in Colorado. In about two months, the North American airline that purchased the first set of seats will reveal its plans to offer them on commercial flights.

“We’ve solved the elbow wars,” Hank Scott, founder and CEO of Molon, said. “When you sit on the plane and someone decides I’m going to steal the armrest, because our armrest comes in two heights, you can’t physically put your arm on an armrest that is staggered. So if you sit in the middle seat, the lower portion of the armrest — the portion that is further back — belongs to you. Now if the person next to you wants to steal that, it’s going to be uncomfortable.”

‘You could save a lot of fuel — a lot!”

The design was born out of airline efforts to boost profits. By broadening aisle space, airlines reasoned, they could reduce boarding

Article source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/molon-labe-seating-183619285.html

PADUCAH, KY — July 29,1967. The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was engaged in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin off of the Vietnam coast.

Jimmy Rudd shortly after joining the Navy.

A massive fire broke out when jet fuel spilled across the deck, igniting and triggering a chain reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161 more.

Jimmy works on his model airplane before flying at the McCracken County Model Air Park.

John McCain was on that ship. So was Jimmy Rudd, who today lives in Ledbetter. He’s also a member of the Paducah Aero Modelers Club (a model airplane club), which is holding it’s annual “Taking Flight For Charity” event Saturday, July 20 to benefit Lotus Children’s Advocacy and Sexual Violence Resource Center.

Rudd survived severe burns from that day on the USS Forrestal. He’s now sharing his story of Service and Sacrifice, as he continues to find ways to give back to his community.

The day we met up with Rudd, it was a perfect day to fly.

“Wow!” Rudd said with a laugh as his model airplane took to the sky. “I built an airplane when I was nine years old and went in the Navy. Come out. Took me 45 years and I finally started building them again!”

He knows his stuff.

Article source: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/2019/07/19/service-sacrifice-vietnam-veteran-recounts-surviving-uss-forrestal-disaster/

U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger mobile phones and other types of radio signals could pose a crash threat to some models of Boeing 737 and 777 airplanes.

More than 1,300 jets registered in the U.S. were equipped with cockpit screens vulnerable to interference from Wi-Fi, mobile phones and even outside frequencies such as weather radar, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which gave airlines until November 2019 to replace the units made by Honeywell International Inc. Honeywell estimates that 70 or fewer planes with cockpit screens in need of repair are still flying.

Flight-critical data including airspeed, altitude and navigation could disappear and “result in loss of airplane control at an altitude insufficient for recovery,” the FAA said in its 2014 safety bulletin, known as an airworthiness directive.

A Honeywell spokeswoman said there have been no reports of display units blanking in-flight due to high-intensity radio frequency/Wi-Fi interference. Airlines and Honeywell have argued that radio signals were unlikely to cause safety problems during flight. The FAA, however, concluded there were safety risks based on assessments it had received from a vendor and an operator.

Boeing Co. found the interference in a laboratory test in 2012 and hasn’t seen similar issues on other aircraft, a company spokesman said. Honeywell is aware of only one case where all six display units in a 737 cockpit went blank, company spokeswoman Nina Krauss said. The cause was a software problem, unrelated to Wi-Fi or cellphones, that has

Article source: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-18/cellphones-a-flight-danger-on-these-boeing-jets