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SUNDAY MONITOR September 26 1993 B5 Merrimack He gets all but none of the hassle By CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS TheTetegaph- MERRIMACK -raised on airplanes In his youth he learned to pilot planes and traveled the circuit of air shows in Canada and New England with his unde who earned his living as a stunt pilot Later Lacroix trained and worked as an aircraft mechanic at the Manchester is learning how to fly with radio controls his father says Although radio easy to fly learning to control one re quires skills similar to piloting a foil -kale Eilanesays Lacroix Fbur basic controls ill and land the plane and turn and batik it Lacroix 46 hasn't flown in a plane for years but Bays his radio controlled plane handles "exactly the same as the 'teal thing Joe Man-one' has never piloted a foil- scale plane But the same passion for planes that found him gluing models together as a kid possessed him to ask his wife for a radio controlled airplane kit for his 50th birthday present Now the president of the club Mar: rone says beginners are welcome to show dling a scalp model of a Fokker Eindecker a World War I German monp plane Moments'eariier the plane's en-gine had died could either go into the woods or do a downwind turn says the 32-year-old pilot chose the downwind turn It was a pretty good slam" Friedrichs who also owns a frill-scale Beech Sundowner that he keeps at Nashua Airport reflects on the good fortune that he happened to be flying his model plane during the crash He said he' became interested in model planes while growing up in Poughkeepsie NY where an annual contest chaws radio pilots from across the country basically an airplane fanatic all Friedrichs says His 4-year-old son Richard regularly accompanies him to the field with a small plastic mode) plane powered by his raised nand He also up at the field on Tuesday evenings and Sunday mornings for basic instruction "All of the cluhTmembers pay dues to belong to the Academy of Model Aeronau-- tics The academy provides insurance for the group and sponsors periodic events -and activities With planes that can reach speeds of up to'85 miles per hour Marrone says the potential for property damage and even bodily irjury is very real club's been really lucky" he Bays While most club members use the field for an after-work or weekend flight the club occasionally holds informal contests! Marrone says he never grows tired or bored of the hobby "I guess it's a fascination" he says "A lot of people say an airplane shouldn't be able to fly I guess I'm continually amazed at the aerodynamics that make that the thrill of operating a plane without leaving the ground Now a radio-controlled model airplane enthusiast Lacroix says his current hobby delivers all the fun of flying without the hassle can go out five minutes from my house and fly my he says if I crash it I can walk Lacroix is the founder of the Southern New Hampshire Flying Eagles a group whose membership has soared from to 85 in lust six years The group's airfield in Memmack measures roughly the size of a tennis court and is even outfitted with a miniature windsock Jff Friedrichs was kneeling on the ground near the airstrip Wednesday cra Airport Unat nabie to afford the ever increasing expense of owning and operating an airplane Lacroix scaled down his nobby but not his interest in flight For a fraction of the price and hi a lot less time Lacroix learned he could get Portsmouth Nuclear dump plan may-not be serious Sources: Shipyard site unworkable I The proposal was strictly in response to the courts 9 9 ByLARSTROOSON Portsmouth Herald Maine state Rep Jim Mltchefi Amoskeag Mills Samuel Blodgett began a canal to bypass the steep foils in 1793 with money provided by a lottery- The canal was finished In 1807 Mills then sprang up on both sides of the river below the foils The world renowned Amoskeag Manufacturing Company flourished here for a century operating 64 mills covering a mile and a half of ground housing 700000 spindles and 23000 looms which turned out 500000 yards of cloth each week sponse to the courts" But he said the advisory commission's staff had been on the phone with the Department of Energy Wednesday- and they were being told the snip Others have said there was "No rationale" for naming the shipyard as a storage site another called: the Navy yards sites compared to other possibilities Trie Department of Energy named not only Portsmouth-but shipyards in Puget Sound Wash Norfolk Va and Pear) Harbor Ha- waii as possible dump sites -Reaction in Norfolk was similar to that in Portsmouth with citizen groups and newspapers editorializing against the proposal Sources in Washington state said the com- 1 unity reaction was almost nonexistent because "everyone here took the announcement with a grain of The Department of Energy is following through on a court order PORTSMOUTH It appears the Department of Energy proposal to turn the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard into along-term dump for high level nuclear waste is not serious For the past week source after source has said the agency simply wants to expand its facilities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory One way to do that was to propose alternatives such as the shipyard that would prove to be unworkable and unattractive When asked if that was the a high-ranking Washington who did not want to be said right" serious option to look at -other sites for nuclear storage outside the Idaho facility after shipments there were stopped fay an injunction The nuclear shipyards were named out of convenience more than practicality the Navy ports were you store and transship the fuel were- -the obvious to name' said the Washington official js the sense we had been getting" said Maine state Rep' Jim Mitchell chairman of the Advisory 'Committee on Radioactive Waste proposal was strictly in re One indication that Portsmouth is not a prime candidate ix the agency's intention to use the new site not just for storage but also for examination and analysis of nU: clear fuel The Idaho facility has been involved in Department of Defense weapons production What ft Is A state historic marker Where ft Is: In Manchester on the east side of the Merrimack River in the southwest comer of the Manchester Armory parking lot at the intersection of Canal and West Penacook streets When ft was erected: 1978 A mint ami noDey! 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