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 If YOU have a personal web
site of model flight interest for us to enjoy or have come across one
that you found of particular value or interest (including commercial
sites), then please let me have the URL and we can feature it here.
There's so much good stuff out there, but it's so easy to miss it!
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Dean's R/C
Model Site
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This
is a nice personal web site show-casing the life-time modelling
activities of a guy simply identifying himself on his site as Dean
and who I now know is Dean Monticelli. Dean has been retired
for two years, having previously operated an archery retail
shop for 35 years in N.Y. State in the Syracuse area; he also
owned part of a bow manufacturing company for sixteen years.
He now lives in Tucson, Arizona where it's possibe to fly all
the year round.
Dean has been building
scale radio-controlled models for 40 years and his site consists of
three pages of pictures of his superb models built over that time.
There are also some wonderful old shots going even further back to Dean's
schooldays and his first rubber-powered and simple glider kits (when
photos were in black and white and boys put their tie on for the photographer!).
ModelFlight reader Andrew Gisby
brought this site to my attention; as Andrew says, "The models look
fantastic - I'd be too scared to fly them!".
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There are a couple of examples of Dean's
craftsmanship on the photo gallery and you can see many more if you
visit
http://www.monti.rcplanet.com
where you will find one or two for
sale.
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| Fancy something different for
that next show? Then how about a
Radio-controlled parachutist!
 This
is clearly something for the specialist, but it does sound really
fascinating. These little figures (well, up to 1/4 scale), operate their
beautiful miniature canopies whilst in flight by movement of their arms and
can be very accurately controlled right down to their marked landing spot - just like the real thing, in fact.
There seems to be just one principal company, in
Germany, marketing kits and accessories for this unusual enhancement of
the world of model flight and they can be found at www.paramax.de
They offer a complete kit of their man Mike for USA$146 as well as
a range of components and canopies. Radio Control Magazine also
has a plan for a parachutist, apparently, and if you visit www.olywa.net
you can find out a great deal more and pick up some useful links from
r/c parachuting enthusiast Juan Fernandez.
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| David Lloyd Jones has an interesting
new site
 David
Lloyd Jones is developing what promises to be a very nice and useful
web site, specialising in the supply of model-flight-related magazines
and books.
Right now, David has just developed his opening page which function to
both introduce the subject and provide an e-mail link to him to
make further enquiries. David's opening page is an attractive piece of
graphics editing, and it will be interesting to see how the site
develops. We will return to the site when there's more real content, but
in the meantime if you are looking for published material, contact David
via the site, for which the URL is www.magazinesandbooks.co.uk
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you have a personal website, we may not have seen it yet so click on the
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