Restoring Model Planes with Epoxy Adhesive

Kids love to build and create things. It is good for them to be able to do it. This is why there are so many model planes and car kits available to even preschool-aged children. You can find them in hobby stores or thrift stores all over the place. Some require an adult’s help and others are easily put together by kids. When kids start learning to create, it can open the door to many things in the future. It may even allow them to focus on restoring model planes with epoxy adhesive or building real ones in the future.

Toy Models for Kids

The models for youngest kids are often snap together type models. They are simple to put together and ideal for even toddlers to put together with mom or dad’s help. The step up from that may be models with only a few different pieces that can be painted with watercolor paints and glued together with Elmers.

Once kids perfect the basics, they can move into higher-class models that have many working parts and pieces. They can use custom acrylic paints, super glue, and other tools to help them with it. Some models require toothpicks and tweezers to put the tiny pieces in place. Paints and glue must dry between each step in the build process.

Building a Future

The great thing about kids building models and such is that they develop an even bigger love of creating things. In the future, it could encourage them to build new and wonderful things. They may take up woodworking and create masterpieces. They could also get a job building or restoring actual planes with similar materials to what they used in their models. They may use aluminum, titanium, or heavy steel to build airplanes rather than plastic. Instead of Elmer’s glue, they may learn how to use epoxy and calculate coverage for how much they need to use to get a perfect seal or adhesion coat.

Dream Can Come True

The idea that children are our future is not exaggerated. We should encourage them to do all that they can do while they are young. Watch as their skills grow and encourage them to find something that they love. Every little bit of encouragement and love that you show to them will come back tenfold when they turn it into a career move that they will love for the rest of their lives.

If your child wants to create paintings, let them. If they want to play instruments, let them. If they want to be helpers and teachers, builders, or anything else, encourage them. One day, they will thank you for it and you will be overjoyed to know that you were a part of it.

Where Planes Can Take You

One of the coolest things about airplanes is their ability to travel anywhere you need to go. The sky at any given time has between 8,000 and 20,000 planes mid-flight at any given moment.  It changes throughout the year and based on day or night, but that is still a lot of planes. Most of them may be commercial airlines that promise to get you there quickly. Others may be personal jets, helicopters, and others that are all on a mission of some type. In Alaska, the number of private planes is very high, because planes can go where no other mode of transportation can go.

Why So Many Planes in Alaska?

A large portion of Alaska is accessible by air or by sea. There are 400 public access airports and some offer short flights from one borough to another for a minimal fee. It is the fastest way to travel in an area that is rough and rugged. Even the capitol Juneau is not accessible by vehicles other than air or sea. In places like Barrow, you will discover that the only possible way to travel to it is air. Without airplanes, the approximately 4,500 people who call it home would be completely shut off from the rest of the world.

Beyond that, many people do not live inside a set borough. They live an off-the-grid lifestyle. When they get snowed in for months at a time, they need plenty of supplies to get them through.  The easiest way to transport items is through the air as soon as the ice has melted away. In some areas of Alaska, there are more airplanes than there are residents.

However, Alaska isn’t the only area that you can find private planes heading off to exotic destinations or residences that are considered, off-the-grid. There are many places right here in the USA that it is also beneficial to have a plane.

Off-The-Grid USA

In the U.S. most areas are accessible by road, but it is not always convenient. There are many people who thrive away from modern conveniences. The exception is places like Supai Village, Arizona where mail is still delivered by mule because vehicles cannot easily travel into the area. Angle Inlet, Minnesota is only accessible by boat. You have to travel into Canada and then make a southern turn to reach this little town of about 60 people. In Montana, towns like Winnett have roads and vehicles, but the nearest large city is hundreds of miles away. The closest airport is 96 miles away by land. It is in Yellowstone County. People who live Off Grid Montana may depend on air travel during major storms and medical emergencies or quick helicopter flights to bring supplies.

Planes Save Time and Increase Ease of Life for Many

There are places all over the world that have very few people because of the fact that they are further off the grid than most people want to be. For these people, an airplane is a life raft that enables them to thrive. As more and more people choose to leave the city behind, the importance of air travel will only continue to increase.

Fly Fly Fly

Since the beginning of time, humans have had a fascination with flying. The desire to soar like a bird, travel faster, and other things have spurred us on to constantly evolve the idea of flying. Throughout history, virtually every era had its own unique ideas on what would make flight possible. An aircraft museum is the only place you will ever go to get a true sense of how far we have come. Are you ready to take a tour to see what you can learn about history?

Ancient History of Flight

It is rumored that the first self-propelled, bird-shaped was designed and built in 400 BC in Greece, by Archytas. He was among many things, a scientist at the Pythagorean school and is most famous for being reputed as the founder of mathematical mechanics. He was also a good friend of Plato, another philosopher, among many things.

As time progressed further, gliders became something people tried to master. The earliest recorded attempts at this were from the 9th-century and again in the 11th-century. Both instances resulted in the piolet being injured. It is also said that Leonardo da Vinci researched birds along with their wings to come up with a man-powered aircraft in 1502 in his “Codex on the Flight of Birds”.

By the year 1850, steam-powered gliders were possible and in 1853, George Cayley built a successful, passenger glider. It became powered in 1856 by Jean-Marie Le Bris. It was pulled by a horse on a beach. Ideas were being improved upon until finally, the Wright brothers flight took place in 1903. It set in motion another plane in 1905, the Wright Flyer III. This plane was controllable and able to fly for longer time frames.

More Recent Aviation

The 1900s saw technology and airplane meeting as one. By 1910, aircrafts were jet-propelled and crossing the English Channel. A few years later, during World War I, planes were crossing the ocean. By the 1960s, we had Boeing 707s.

The aircraft that has come since then have been lighter, faster, and even capable of going into outer space. In 2010, there was even a 24-hour long flight that used only solar panels and electricity to stay in the air.

Explore Aeronautics

The history of flight has been a long one. As time progresses, we may make even more forward progress on changing the way we fly. This is why so many people love touring aircraft museums. They can see how far we have come. A flight museum will give you a true sense of what life was like during certain times in our history. You can see the old bombers, the old-style bi-plains, and so much more. Military jets and passenger planes may also be seen at these museums. Are you ready to tour one that is in your area?