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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.
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