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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!

What a wonderful site this is for just being nosey and sharing the sheer enthusiasm of another r/c fanatic - after all, unless you know him, for what other reason could you possibly want to know about Marty and his friends? Marty's site is a great collection of 30 pages of his own comments, pictures and experiences of the model flight world and those he shares it with.

On the site you will find information on the clubs Marty belongs to, aerial photographs, Marty and his buddies, useful check lists, other people's models, events calendars and a host of other fascinating bits and pieces.

I particularly liked Before and After, being a pictorial record of some of the models that Marty has loved and lost (quite a few!), many being accompanied by wittily succinct comments like this one on his Wallflower (Ultrasport 40) - click the pic if the text is indistinct.

Marty is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Canisius College, Buffalo, N. York. Having long had an ambition to get into r/c model flight, Marty promised himself that some day he would celebrate his PhD (awarded in 1991) by kitting himself up. In 1996 he took the plunge when Mark Kriz, a fellow Jesuit, moved into his college and showed Marty his own collection of r/c models - he could resist no longer and he doesn't appear to have looked back since!

Visit Marty's site at http://zeus.rcwizard.com/~mxmrcpix where you will also find some good links to other interesting model flight information and material. I've borrowed a picture or two of Marty's for the photo gallery page.