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- Here's where we take a
look at other websites of model-flight interest. It might be a
commercial site or one belonging to another enthusiast or specialist
group. Let me know if you've come across a nice site that you think
is worth a look - it could, of course, be your site if you let me know your
URL!
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| Here's a brief look at the site of John Hubbard's club, CASCADE ROTORY WINGS,
as promised last time.
 Cascade
Rotory Wings website is very much a club-orientated site with an
emphasis on conveying club news and views, with
the availability of a chat room, message board and mail facilities to
members. The home page carries a series of straightforward text links to
other pages on the site - Events, Chat Room, Mail, Club Message Board,
Club Officers List, IRCHA Website (International Radio Controlled
Helicopter Association), AMA Website (Academy of Model
Aeronautics) and a page of Heli Links of several categories. In addition,
principle forthcoming events are also given prominence.
There is a collection of pictures from the Curtis
Youngblood Fun Fly held in September, six of which I showed on ModelFlight
#20, and many of which are well worth a
look. Again, the page is really aimed at club
members, with the pictures listed as an index of file names which will
only really be meaningful to those in the know, but browsing around them
can be rewarding.
Don't get me wrong, though, there's nothing wrong with
a club website that aims to serve its club members! After all, it's just
a matter of deciding what you want to achieve and then going for it.
http://www.cascaderotorywings.org
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 GRAHAM
COWLING'S PERSONAL WEBSITE
http://www.grahamlc.demon.co.uk/Jets/
GRAHAM COWLING lives in Chichester, West
Sussex, England, and works at Goodwood motor circuit and aerodrome,
where the pictures on his website were taken. The full size Tiger
Moth which you see below is part of Graham's job - he works for a
corporate hospitality company providing big toys for big boys and girls
to play with. He is an off-road instructor, mechanic, ground crew and
prop swinger.
Graham has been flying models on and off for 25
years, starting with single-channel push-button in a Junior 60. He now
flies helicopters and is just getting into jets. He flies mainly at Goodwood
by arrangement with Air Traffic Control (that must bring an added touch
of reality to it!) and he is also a member of
Chichester and District Model Aero Club.
Graham's website is a showcase for his
models - a nice clean, uncluttered design without a lot of text. The
opening page is a straightforward welcome to his collection of models,
intriguingly lined up under the wing of the full size Tiger Moth
referred to above, as you
see here.
Displayed beneath this main picture on
Graham's website is the name of each model, and these names
are links to a separate page featuring each one. The site gives
no details of the models, but Graham has given me a bit of information
about them which you can see, together with a larger view of
each one, if you click on each of the models in the picture
above.
graham@grahamlc.demon.co.uk
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| If
you have a personal website, we may not have seen it yet so click on the
post-box and e-mail me with the URL and we can all have a look at it on ModelFlight
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