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Local museum explores national aviation, model aircraft DN FILE PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY
The National Model Aviation Museum houses unmanned aircrafts for recreational use and professional use. Manufacturers and individuals have donated the predecessors to the popularized unmanned aerial vehicles used by the military. ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu
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he United States turning 238 isn’t the only American milestone in July. Nearly 45 years ago, a Saturn-V Rocket launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, carrying the crew of the first men to walk the lunar surface. And 45 years later, that excursion has rippled across the nation and the world to the smallest of Midwest towns, like Muncie. On the outskirts of town, surrounded by open fields, sits the Academy of Model Aeronautics and the National Model Aviation Museum, curated by Michael Smith.
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• Better suits for firefighters • Heart monitors • Cordless drills • Anti-icing systems on airplanes • Landmine removal techniques • Temper foam • Cordless vacuums • Fire-resistant building reinforcement • Improvements in solar power DN FILE PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY
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The X-33 drop test model holds on to the “mothership” in the National Model Aviation Museum. These are on loan to the Muncie museum from NASA and were used at the Edwards Air Force Base before being retired.
Police: Bump may have caused shooting Investigators looking « It’s wall-to-wall people outside, and for shooter of 7 people God forbid you bump into someone and they don’t like it. » in Broad Ripple street | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — A shooting in a Indianapolis neighborhood that injured seven people may have been set off by two people bumping into each other in the street, police said Saturday. “It looks like it was two guys bumped into each other and it took off from there,” Indianapolis Police Chief Rick Hite said. “There was no rhyme or reason.” Police arrested a 23-year-old man on a preliminary charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and questioned him about the shooting. He was not charged in connection
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with the shooting, police spokesman Lt. Chris Bailey said. As of Sunday night, police had not made any arrests. “We don’t know who the shooter was yet — shooter or shooters,” Bailey said. Investigators were still trying to sort out what happened more than 12 hours later and were hoping witnesses would come forward once the initial fear had worn down. “We know some of the things that happened, but we need confirmation,” Hite said. Police said one man was in critical condition at a local hospital. Five other men and a woman also were shot, but did not have life-threatening injuries, authorities said. All of the victims are in their 20s. Hite said numerous officers, even those who were off duty, responded to the gunfire about 2:23 a.m. Sat-
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PITTSBURGH PIRATES CLAIM FORMER BALL STATE PLAYER The Pittsburgh Pirates claimed former Ball State baseball player Dean Anna off waivers Saturday. A native of Gary, Ind., Anna had been designated for assignment by the New York Yankees on Thursday after making his MLB debut with the team April 4. In 12 games with New York, Anna registered three hits in 22 at bats, a home run and three RBIs. DEAN ANNA, In addition to his early season a former Ball stint with the Yankees, Anna also State player played in 36 games for the club’s Triple-A affiliate the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. There, he posted a .192 batting average in 152 plate appearances. The Pirates have optioned Anna to its Triple-A affiliate, the Indianapolis Indians. Anna was drafted in the 26th round of the 2008 amateur draft by the San Diego Padres.
ROB SABATINI, owner of three bars in the Broad Ripple area
urday in Broad Ripple, about a halfhour before the bars were to close at 3 a.m. The neighborhood about eight miles north of downtown Indianapolis has many bars and restaurants and is a popular spot with college students and other young people. “I’ve been told there were quite a few people out ... on a typical Friday night, bouncing from bar to bar,” Bailey said at a news conference earlier in the day. “Someone opens fire in a crowd like that, we’re lucky more weren’t hurt.” Hite said such incidents could be avoided if people simply didn’t carry
their guns when they party. “Late night, drinking and weapons don’t mix,” Hite said. Rob Sabatini, who owns three bars in the area, told The Indianapolis Star that the streets were crowded before the shooting. “The bars will be half-empty, but the streets are packed,” he said. “It’s wall-to-wall people outside, and God forbid you bump into someone and they don’t like it.” The shootings are the latest in a violent year for Indianapolis, which is on track to rival its record of 162 homicides, set in 1998.
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