No 8
May 6, 2000

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Hi Friends,

For those of you for whom Easter meant a bit of a holiday, I do hope it was enjoyable and you managed to get some flying in, if that was what you wanted! Here in the south of England the weather was very changeable, but we did manage to get out on the field at my club, although there were not many folk about. By way of contrast, our May bank holiday weather was superb.

There are a couple of changes to the site on this update. Firstly, I am incorporating 'hints & tips' into the 'plane talk' page, so any little gems you may have by way of gadgets, gizmos and tips will go into 'plane talk' in future. Secondly, I have come to the conclusion that the 'www' page of international events was probably not serving any useful purpose, since its equivalent is available in every modelling magazine I have ever picked up - indeed, they give much more detail of local events than would make sense in the world-wide web setting of ModelFlight. I have therefore dropped it from the site, but if you do think it is of any value, it can be quickly re-introduced. Alternatively, rather than covering major events we could go the other way and I would be happy to put information on about your own special events, as I did with the Felixstowe (UK) Show for Rob Sherratt and the Flog 'n Fly meeting of the Test Valley Model Flying Club - by the way, where are you Rob - we haven't heard from you lately?

There are new visitors to the site every time it is updated, so rather than keep on explaining the concept behind ModelFlight on this page and also to answer the questions that are asked about yours truly, I have added a permanent page called read all about it! that says a bit about me and ModelFlight. Once you've read it, you can ignore it in future updates, of course, although I'll let you know if there's any thing new on it that you might be interested in! 

I've included a picture on the picture gallery page that you might like to 'save as wallpaper' for your desktop - in any case, I hope you enjoy it. Here's how it looks on my PC, centred and stretched.

aviation picture © The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Enterprises

By the way, if you find my standard type-sizes too large or small, you can change their size from the Text Size option on the View menu of Internet Explorer and there's possibly a similar option on other browsers too.

 Happy landings,

ModelFlight.

Reg Heath
60 South View Gardens
Andover
Hants
SP10 2AQ
UK