No 37
June 16, 2001
Hi
friends,
I often
remark how nice it is when I can feature any of the more specialised branches of
our hobby, like control line, rubber-powered, etc., so I was particularly
pleased when I heard from new Modelflight
contributor DAVID SIMMONDS and
discovered that he is a scale glider fan. His club, Southampton Soaring Society,
is featured on club scene and there are some nice piccies from them on the photo
gallery. Read about SSS and you will come across someone else whose work you
will already have seen in the modelling
press, particularly if you are a RCM&E reader.
I very much enjoyed my visit to
Sandown Model Symposium and was glad I went on the Sunday when it was
considerably quieter round the trade stands than the previous day, I gather. I
had a look at Flair Products new Stearman that was mentioned on the last issue -
what a beauty and even bigger than I had imagined. F3A World Champion Christophe
Paysant-Le Roux's flying display was awesome, although personally I wished it
had contained just a moment or two of less acrobatic activity - it was so fast
and furious that the unenlightened might have been forgiven for thinking he was out of
control or just doing some random stick-twiddling! I was encouraged to discover that, whilst I cannot fly
like a champion, I can certainly land like one - his nose-overs
were just the same as mine, but mine actually seem less frequent!
Our most unusual flying model to
date appears on the photo gallery - designed, built and flown by Scott Thompson
of Indiana, and certainly an attention-grabber!
I was glad to hear from Denis
Wolff that his move to Bridlington has gone off o.k. - he's up and running again.
Regards to all,
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The
background image on the opening screen is of IAN NELSON'S Mustang "Miss
Marilyn" built from a Cambrian kit.
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