A6 - Sunday, July 22, 1984 - North Shore News Well done o not be misled by the _ political nonsense that leaves an ugly scar on the Olympic Games. Remember in- stead that for the thousands of young people who will be proudly marching in the opening parade, this will be the high point, and for many the culmination of years of sacrifice, dedication and self-discipline that most of us cannot possibly comprehend. For these athletes, sport is not a recreation or a minor league activity. It is an activity that becomes an obsession, a desire to defeat, not a competitor, but themselves, to overcome all the natual instincts of the human mind that say to slow down or take it easy. These people have learned how to master themselves and in so doing have risen to the very peak of athletic and mental ex- cellence. The North Shore is well represented at the Games with Lloyd Guss and Gerri Fitch in Track and Field, Bob Lenarduzzi and coach Tony Waiters in Soccer, Anita Botnen and coach Mike Vossen in gymnastics, and Lisa Borsholt in swimming. While all these athletes have overcome long odds to make it to L.A., Botnen also overcame a constant back problem and com- peted in pain to earn her passage. West Van- couver’s Lloyd Guss didn’t make the Olym- pic qualifying mark until Monday night at Swangard, scant hours before the deadline for achieving the standard. Both these athletes symbolize the self-discipline needed to reach the peak of their particular events. When these young people march into the stadium, they will be showing the world just what we are capable of becoming if we are willing to make the sacrifices and reach beyond the common ground of mediocrity. Acceptance ast week an item in our newspaper Stated that the Food Bank situation on tthe North Shore was ‘stable’. While this should be encouraging, considering the rapid- ly increasing demand and line-ups in Van- couver, our acceptance of people having to stand in line for hand-outs is frightening. That this has become a common fact of life is not to our credit as a society. . {HE WORCE OF PODETTH AND wast VANCOUVER north shore Display Advertising Ctassitied Advertising 986-6222 ri ew S Newsroom 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 SUNDAY. wanpnasDAY-emoay Subscriptions 980-2707 1139 Lonedale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. 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Press Council cca | 65,556 (average Wednesday BDA DIMISION Friday & Sunday) Loy SN G THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE (D UKE Md ATINERARY FOR (Id 1986 TRIP 10 BC TRANSPORTATION EYPO. BAYER JF THE BUS DAVERS ARENT STL ON STRIKE YOULL BOARD: A METRO BUS... IF IT HASNT BEEN CUTBACK. YOULL CATCH THE: 1 A BC FERRO SAILING... ) TAS / ae LX | Q 0) ij mn € Wy V1. ij Model planes cut costs Taking aerial photographs ODEL AIRPLANES can help Canada’s resource industries and conservationists, says a group of B.C. researchers. In proving their point, they’ ve used model planes for aerial photography of mar- shlands, woods, and nesting pelicans — with such success that their idea is about to take off commercially. B.C. Research’s Project AERIE (Airborne Equip- ment for Remote Imaging of the Environment) first got off the ground in 1982, with the aim of developing and demonstrating a remote- controlled aircraft: for com- mercial aerial photography. Such aircraft have a long military history, but little civilian use, says Dr. Geof- frey Tomlins, the project's director. In the first stage, Dr. Tomlins and his co-workers modified a commercially- available radio-controlled model plane to carry and (rig- ger a 35mm still camera EARLY PROBLEMS The plane flew several trial photographic missions, using color and color-infared film for such tasks as identifying dead or discolored trees in a forest area and assessing the damage from a landfill site Though the photography was mostly successful, there were problems with the plane self Its range was limited to the operator's field of view, since there was no way of knowing what the planc was doing when wo was out of sight) In addition, when Moats were added to enable takeoffs from = water, the plane could no longer carry its full payload of controls The next phase was to design and build ao more suitable plane Dr Lomlins and his team came up with the CONDOR, which was constructed Co their specifica By JOHN HOLT tions by RPC Research and Development, of Keremeos, B.C., and first flew in the summer of 1983. camera enables the pilot on the ground to see where the plane is heading in the air. Thus, the plan be flown beyond the pilot’s field of view, as far as two km away. The video-camera can also be swiveled to point downwards so the pilot can see what CONDOR’s still cameras are photographing. S THIS CONDOR remote controlled model plane equipped with floats is one of the many models being developed to assist with surveys and aerial photography. The CONDOR, with its 3.6-metre wingspan and 50cc engine, can carry two 35mm still cameras and a navigation video camera in its box-like fusclage. The fuselage is made of plywood and a clear plastic bottom, the wings are wood-framed and covered wth polyester fabric CONDOR'’s tail section telescopes against the fuselage, and the wings can be removed, so that the planc can be packed into boxes and carried in a pick-up truck Fitted with Moats or wheels, it can be launched from any available stnp of land or water accessible by truck CONDOR 18) radio controled, but the video STANDING STILL CONDOR can stay aloft foc an hour with its full load of equipment, says Dr. Tomlins He adds that it usually doesnt’ need to stay up so long, the average photographic mission so fas has taken 20 minutes Dr Tomlins is enthusiastic about CONDOR 's usefulness for aerial photography. The plane can fly both low (about 10 metres up) and as slowly as 20 km per hour (it can be made to almost stand stall by flying tnto a headwind). As a result, uo can take very clear, large-scale photographs, says Dr Tomlins. CONDOR has flown mis sions to assess the health of Noel Wright on vacation marshland vegetation and monitor landfill sites, with **excellent results’’, Dr. Tomlins says. It also flew a mission for the Canadian Wildlife Service, to do a photographic census of white pelicans on their breeding grounds in a- B.C. lake. CONDOR was chosen for the pelican survey because of its relative quietness; a full-size plane would have scared off the pelicans. The AERIE project’s demonstration of the uses of remote-control planes has been so successful that the technology is to be transfer- red to private industry. A B.C. firm, Jasch Aero Cor- poration, is building a pre- production prototype based on the CONDOR concept, though using plastic com- posites rather than wood and fabric. The commercial pro- totype will be test-flown this spring. Should the aircraft go into commercial production, it will be a big money-saver for forestry and other industries who want to do small-scalc acrial surveys, Dr. Tomlins says. A commercial version of CONDOR would cost about one-tenth as much as comparable military surveillance craft. It would rent for $250 to $400 per day, exclusive of film; full-scale aircraft) rented for aerial photography can cost $100 an hour. The AERIE project) was funded by the B.C. Ministry of Sciences, Universities, and Communications., The Canadian Forestry Service provided support for forestry applications, and one of Dr Tomlins’ co-workers, Dt Jim Lee Mr Mike Manorc. of BC Research, was pro ject AERIE’s pilot. (Canadian Science News)