TOM WATSON wrote from Sydney, Australia, with details of his Tiger Moth which you will find on the photo gallery page. I asked Tom for more details of his decal-making system, and that you will find on air space. Tom concluded his second e-mail:

. . . thanks for your interest. I feel that I have just joined a new club. I will try to send a bit of news from Australia. We intend to visit the UK next year and I might be able to have a fly with you all.

tomw@bigpond.net.au 

Great to be in touch, Tom, and welcome to ModelFlight - I'm glad you like it! I'm sure you would be a welcome guest at many clubs here in the UK.
If you want to give Tom a welcome at your club, let me know or drop him an e-mail at his address shown above. 

Hello Reg!
Just read #18 of ModelFlight. Just gorgeous and your kind exposure of my credentials flatters me!
My son has fixed my scanner and I will send you some pictures. One depicts me and my Scorpion (left). One is my interpretation of the little Puffin transformed to 1/2 A size for Cox ·049 motor. The original I bought at Old Warden Oldtimer Days some years ago. It is still flying indoors with an KP01 electric motor. The larger version is photographed at our countryside house (right). I have flown it on pontoons on the pond.
I'll try and take a picture later on of the 'mopedekipage' [that's Tore on his moped!] bound for the flying field. I will also give you some pictures and the story of the Swedish Oldtimer Championships which has just been flown at Nyköping, 100 kilometers south of Stockholm. No, I didn't go there by moped, but with a SAAB car owned by my fellow flyer! Don't know if it has interest, has it?
OK, now I am going to bed to sleep with the Siamese cat, Caesar, on my arm, tucked in under the blanket - Siamese are heat-seeking animals! 

tloodin@hotmail.com 

If it interests you, Tore, it's likely to interest the rest of us, so send in anything you like!

And if YOU would like your credentials exposed, send me a personal profile NOW!

You can probably guess that this came from BOB NICOL, our resident joker!

It's good to hear from STEVE BOLIN again, including a bit of news on his large-scale B-17 project which we last saw back on ModelFlight #12. This shot was taken just before Steve started on the planking.

Steve writes:

Great news about your grandson! [Thanks, Steve.] And I do think it would be a great idea if you could make your other past issues of ModelFlight available, preferably on a permanent basis. That way, we could check up on your grandson's own website if we forget the address! . . . So when can he hold a transmitter?
Joanne [Steve's wife and ModelFlight's First Lady for those of you who do not know!] is presently working on a pilot for my Mustang by a company called DGA. I'll get her to send you something on this. I'm going to try to get you some photos on the progress I've got going on the B-17. I've got the two elevators finished with scale ribbing on the sheeted surface. The stab is now installed and I made up the servo tray and mounted the servos in the tray. The fin is built and sheeted with the rudder needing to be started. I will need to cover the elevators and rudder with cloth like on the real one before I permanently mount them. So far, I have spent 142 hours on this in 4 months . . . 

DUBOLIN@aol.com 

I'm looking forward to seeing the latest state of the B-17 some time soon and certainly hope we might also hear from Joanne. I'm still trying to find some way of making back-items available without taking up all my webspace - I'll keep thinking about it!

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