| Issue no. 132 |
May
2008
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OPENING
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Hi
friends,
Thanks to all of you who responded to my screen size survey on the last issue. The question itself inevitably led to many of you not being able to resist the opportunity to indulge in a little double entendre in your replies, but we won't elaborate on that! The reason behind my question was to determine if 17" monitors were still the most prevalent, or whether the emphasis on larger screens over recent years has shifted the emphasis and whether this should be taken into account in web page design. The results of my little survey were interesting - most used were 17" monitors (30%), followed by 19" (20%), closely followed by 15" (19%) - all of which means I will continue to standardise my largest picture and table sizes at 720 pixels to allow full screen viewing for virtually all viewers without the necessity to scroll right (which I hate!). Although using a 17" screen for his PC, Malcolm Logan actually has a 47" screen, bought as a TV but which has a PC/laptop monitor capability! Not really practical for normal browsing, but it would be great for a simulator, don't you think?
There's another of Tim Costello's occasional articles on aerodynamic subjects on air space. This time, Tim discusses wing tip design; earlier articles have covered the Dutch Roll effect, Reynolds Numbers and the Dumbbell effect - all of which are still available for you to read on the modelflight archive, of course.
In
case you noticed its disappearance, I'm sorry about the withdrawal of
a certain freebie that was offered for a few days on last month's issue,
but copyright issues meant that it was prudent to withdraw it immediately
they became apparent. Did you know that, in the UK at least, copyright
is automatic on all published work? - it does not have to be claimed or
registered or even referred to on the published work itself, so the absence
of any copyright notice in the work itself is immaterial. I do try to
be careful about copyright and generally find that in the case of photographs,
at least, most copyright holders are generous in allowing me to reproduce
their work - as in the case of the great Boeing pictures from photographer
Bill Reipl which appear on this month's full
scale page. Bill has also kindly offered me the use of other pictures
from his substantial collection of other vintage aircraft photos.
Regards,
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