Issue no. 159

Hi friends,

You will find several little items from Wayne Campbell throughout this month's issue, all spawned from an email he sent briefly commenting on recent activities. One such was a reference to his interest in First Person View (FPV) flying towards which he is slowly edging! Is Wayne going to be the first modelflight reader to give FPV a try, or have any of you already ventured into this comparatively new discipline, I wonder? If you have, please let us know what your experience has been, what equipment you are using, and so on. Better still, why not write an article?

Several readers got in touch to tell me that they did not receive their usual reminder when last month's issue went up to the web,with Anon (aka Barrie Russell!) getting quite poetic about it:

I am worried too,
Being one of the few,
who missed out on his notification.
Missing my fix,
And those aeroplane pix,
Made for a lonely occasion.

I sit here in front,
of my PC month after month
with readers and builders alike.
If you do not comply,
then I surely can't fly,
and am likely to fall off my trike.

A plea to you Reg,
I'm seeking your pledge,
to re-enter my name on your list.
Being an addict of Old,
I need to return to the fold,
Or I'll finish up just getting.... missed !

And that my good friend
will just be the end,
of a friendship so jolly and good.
In your absence I yearn,
to the "Local" I might turn,
and find solace in wine and good food.

However, in every case I was able to confirm that the reminder had been sent and did not bounce back to me as undeliverable for any reason. Although the email was not blocked, therefore, it does appear very likely that it was classified as spam (again!) and delivered to the recipients' Spam folder in their email browser which they then ditched. The settings for email filtering in email browsers allow for a wide variety of filtering, including the acceptance of emails from all contacts in your address book or from any specified email address, so could I suggest that if you have not received your reminder, you make sure that my email address is in your address book and check your spam settings and amend them if necessary to include it among your acceptable addresses? The modelflight email address is heathrheath@aol.com. Brian Cox suggests that if you send me some input, or even just an email, that could well do the trick as your system should then recognise me as a chosen contact.

Having missed a few emails in the past myself because they were wrongly designated as spam, I have long since discarded the use of my Spam folder altogether, preferring instead to let everything land up in my Inbox. I then simply delete the stuff that I immediately recognise as Spam (and in cases such as financial scams, actually reporting them) and proceeding with caution on anything else that might come from unrecognisable sources!

Regards,

Don Coe's Tiger Moth; see more on gallery

 

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