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Make sure that your parts do not move while scribing. Book of the Month
Secure them with tape onto a cutting pad and support
contoured parts so that they are not depressed during Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of
scribing. How deeply to scribe is a matter of preference the Art of Flying
and experience. Do you want the scribed surface details
to dominate the finished model or do you want them to
be a subtle detail?
You will notice that scribing plastic creates a ridged
groove. To achieve the illusion of clean, fully recessed
panel lines, these ridges need to be removed. Ridges can
be removed by more wet sanding. Sanding will tend to
fill the scribed lines with wet dust. This can be removed
by scrubbing in soap and water.
FLASHBACK TO November 12, 2009
SASKATOON AIRPORT OPENS CELL
PHONE "PARK & WAIT" LOT
Saskatoon, SK: Picking up arriving passengers at the John
G. Diefenbaker Airport in Saskatoon just got easier with
the opening of a new Cell Phone “Park & Wait” lot.
The complimentary lot is designed to reduce the need for
drivers to circle around the airport loop- road waiting for
their passengers to come out of the terminal. It is located (ISBN 978-0-07-036240-6) is a book
along Airport Drive just as you drive onto the Airport written in 1944 by Wolfgang
property. Attended vehicles may wait in the lot until their Langewiesche, describing how airplanes
passenger has arrived, claimed their luggage and is ready fly and how they should be flown by
to be picked up. Once the passenger is at the curb with pilots. It has become a standard
their luggage they simply phone their ride and have them
come to the terminal and pick them up at the designated reference text for aviators. Written well
“Cell Phone Pick-Up” area in front of the terminal. before the proliferation of cockpit
electronics, navigational aids, and air
“This is another convenience designed to ease the hassle traffic control radio, the book focuses
of air travel and to provide options for those people primarily on fundamental skills specific to
picking up arriving passengers,” said Bill Restall, President flying the aircraft in its stripped-down
and CEO.
basic form.
The cell phone lot is identified by a brown and white
information sign on Airport Drive and located a short
distance from the terminal. Those people who want to
meet their arriving passenger in person still have the
option of parking in the front two rows of the public lot
which are designated for short-term parking.