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martinsburg@herald-mail.com HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. - Some may believe that children's attention spans are getting shorter, but a group of students inside a small classroom at the James Rumsey Technical Institute Wednesday morning might prove them wrong. In that room, 11-year-old Chantel Burrell kept her eyes on the computer screen in front of her, carefully taking off and landing a plane using flight simulation software. Burrell and about 20 other fifth-graders from Eagle School Intermediate participated in the activity, part of the state's Starbase Academy, a federally funded program that seeks to increase students' knowledge of math, science and technology through hands-on activities.

julieg@herald-mail.com Five people escaped uninjured Saturday after a pilot landed a twin-engine Cessna at Hagerstown Regional Airport with one of the main landing gear up, Airport Fire Chief Phil Ridenour said. "He did a real good job," Ridenour said of the pilot, whose name he did not have. The plane was owned by a Baltimore man, he said. The plane was heading from Baltimore to Allentown, Pa., when the pilot realized all of the main landing gear was not down, Ridenour said.

Many museums don't want you touching the merchandise. They put up glass partitions so you can see, but not touch, or they post ropes and security guards around exhibits. On Sunday, the Hagerstown Aviation Museum invited people to climb into some of their most precious exhibits - a Fairchild C-119 “flying boxcar” and a C-82 Packet, which was one of the first “flying boxcars” made at the Hagerstown Fairchild factory. “It's pretty cool they let you climb in them and all over them,” said Jeff Lewis, 32, of Wichita Falls, Texas.

A Waynesboro-area pilot received an award Monday for volunteering to fly people to medical appointments at hospitals hundreds of miles from their homes. Daniel DeDona received the award from Washington Township (Pa.) Manager Mike Christopher, who made the presentation on behalf of Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic. “I think Dan is a special person. ... It's a great honor to be presenting this,” Christopher said. Angel Flight is a nonprofit organization that utilizes volunteers and their personal airplanes to transport patients for medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.

By JULIE E. GREENE Staff Writer At least 2,000 spectators had the opportunity to get a feel and appreciation for the dives, spins and pressures felt by military pilots during The Great Hagerstown Air Show on Saturday. A fleet of nostalgic warplanes took to the air late Saturday morning at the Washington County Regional Airport giving the crowd an earful of thunder from aerial engines and staged "bombings" across the airfield by a pyrotechnic team as planes passed by over the runway.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Martinsburg 47, Hedgesville 39 MARTINSBURG (11-10) Marshall 9-14 5-6 24, Robinson 2-10 7-8 11, Hill 1-5 2-4 4, McDowell 2-5 0-0 4, Farmer 1-6 0-0 2, Lockett 0-0 0-0 0, Nunn 1-4 0-0 0, Henderson 0-0 0-0 0, Rogers 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 16-44 14-18 47. HEDGESVILLE (17-5) Nicholson 3-6 2-2 8, Butler 8-18 0-0 18, Boarman 4-8 0-0 8, Ashton 1-10 1-2 3, Kolb 0-5 0-2 0, Breen 0-0 0-0 0, Deneen 0-0 0-0 0, Jencks 0-0 0-0 0, Shirley 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 17-50 3-6 39. Martinsburg 6 7 13 21-47 Hedgesville 7 14 7 11-39 3-point goals - Martinsburg 1 (Marshall)

Roundup: Knights rally past FSK BASKETBALL UNION BRIDGE, Md. - No. 5 Middletown used Kim Waeber's 14 steals and 11 of 13 foul shooting in the fourth quarter to come back from a five-point halftime deficit to top Francis Scott Key 46-38 in a Monocacy Valley Athletic League game on Wednesday. The Knights (9-1, 6-0) scored only three points in the second quarter to fall behind 21-16 at the intermission and trailed 30-29 heading into the fourth quarter. Waeber helped Middletown get back in the game by tipping passes and starting fastbreaks.

MEN'S BASKETBALL West Liberty 99, Shepherd 79 WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. -- Derek Gallagher recorded 20 points, 11 rebounds, and seven steals for Shepherd University in the Rams' WVIAC loss. Liki Turner had 11 points and nine boards and Tyrone Roach and Jonathan Motichka each scored 10 for the Rams (8-12, 7-5). West Liberty 99, Shepherd 79 SHEPHERD (8-12, 7-5) Lymas 3-10 2-2 8, Motichka 3-8 2-2 10, Roach 4-11 2-5 10, Turner 4-10 3-4 11, Jarman 3-4 2-2 8, Williams 1-5 0-0 3, Wilson 2-3 1-2 5, Lucas 0-1 0-0 0, Dosu 2-3 0-0 4, Gallagher 7-16 0-2 20. Totals 29-71 12-19 79. WEST LIBERTY (14-4, 9-2)

BOYS BASKETBALL CLEAR SPRING - Alex Tyler scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, as Clear Spring topped Winters Mill 69-50 Friday night to remain unbeaten. Mike Snyder had 13 points for the Blazers (4-0), while Cody Beard had six points and six assists. T.J. Conner led Winters Mill with 16 points. Archbishop Spalding 61 No. 7 St. Maria Goretti 41 SEVERN, Md. - University of Connecticut recruit Rudy Gay scored 19 points to lead Archbishop Spalding over St. Maria Goretti in the Baltimore Catholic League season opener for both teams.

By ANDREW SCHOTZ andrews@herald-mail.com That's a military fighter jet flying next to me, Hank Rausch realized. Something's up. Rausch, in his Piper PA-38 Tomahawk, had wandered into a restricted area: the air space above and around Camp David, the presidential retreat in Frederick County. The fighter jet zipped by so its pilot could read the tail number on Rausch's plane, a way to figure out who he was. If Rausch had flown the same course - Martinsburg, W.Va.