Word: voisin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virginia. The story of flight was re-enacted with models -- correct down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending it 125 ft. high, its miniature control flaps guiding it across...
CLASSICAL: B.U. Repertory Orchestra; Roger Voisin, conductor; Rafael Druian, guest conductor; music of Lalo, Mendeissohn and Prokofieff; B.U. Concert Hall; Friday...