personal profiles

I visited a very interesting personal website a week or so ago and contacted its owner to ask if he would introduce himself through a personal profile, including a few words about his site. The site itself is featured on site seeing, and here is the man behind it.

John Cinderey

I am 46, married to Anne and have 3 kids, we live in West Cumbria (UK). I am ex Army (14yrs) then a PC with Cumbria Constabulary until 1997 when I was injured and am now wheelchair bound.

Prior to this I was active with mainly sporting type pursuits - 4 martial arts, fell walking, mounting biking, keen gardener and a motorcyclist to boot.

After the injury I spent a couple of years adjusting to the changes in my life etc, basically became reclusive, then last year kicked myself up the backside, looked at finding an interest to get me back in to social circles and to occupy my time. Plucked up courage to visit the local flying site, fell in with a good bunch.

Flying wise I did start out i/c but followed the electric route. After a bit of playing around with it am now mainly an electric powered flight person. Imagine January, blue skies but loads of brass monkeys running around looking for welders! Just get up to the site with a friend who assists with unloading, get given the plane, a battery and the tranny then bung in a battery, do pre flights and get on with flying. Independence at its best.

I had previously tried rocketry but it was a solitary pursuit and I had to have someone with me to recover etc, but I had put a basic website together for this. Then, knowing that I had a computer and had tried designing a web site before, some members suggested a web site for the club, so I spent a couple of weeks to sort it out then went online at the end of November 2000. Since then I have made changes and it has kind of evolved into what it is now. I mainly learnt as I went along.

I am fortunate to have made a few contacts who in turn have contacts and at any shows I am able to get to I get on the flight-line and chat to pilots about their models. I have worked at publicising the site at shows, plus adding it to web search engines and requesting exchange links on good sites such as yours.

The response I had about the video clips of the electric stuff flying has been overwhelming and that's why I put up the pages about the Pico Cub mods and the battery page, these covering the most questions asked by email.

I always welcome suggestions and questions then look at ways of incorporating it into the site.

I hope to improve the site further with the compilation of kits available for E-Flight and am working on a data base covering main content of r/c magazines. This is a long term project because I have had magazines donated to me that date back to early 80's!!

Thanks, John - it's good to get to know you!

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Reg Heath, 60 South View Gardens, Andover, Hants, SP10 2AQ, UK

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