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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!

 

Fredrik Wergeland's giant personal website

Like John Cinderey's site featured on the last issue, here is another huge personal website that leaves me wondering just where to begin!

The site is owned and maintained by Fredrik Wergeland, a 23-year-old enthusiast from Johanneshov, just south of Stockholm, Sweden. Fredrik first put his site up about a year ago and it has been growing both in size and popularity ever since. The total amount of material on the site is truly amazing - it is currently as big as six month's issues of ModelFlight all rolled into one! Not only that, but the site is available in both Swedish and English.

Fredrik's site carries two main galleries of pictures, one of full-scale aircraft and the other of models. fredrikcessnaskylane.jpg (14703 bytes)These are then subdivided into various collections of pictures from different locations - museums, shows, events, etc. When I viewed it, the model gallery contained some 703 pictures from 12 different locations, for example, whilst the full-scale collection has 361 pictures from 6 locations - and a load more have gone on the site since. Fredrik's own models are on a separate page entitled The Hangar, where building and other details are also given. Amongst those, I rather liked this lovely 1/5 scale Cessna Skylane which Fredrik obtained already built and to which he is carrying out a few modifications, including the removal/replacement of the floats which he says are over-scale..

Other pages include a collection of mpg movies called Showtime, workshop articles, engine data, dimensions and performance for 21 Saito engines and 38 OS engines, and a weekly updated review of 10 of the best English language model magazines!

Getting around such a complex site as this can sometimes be a bit confusing, but Fredde has made this simpler by including this ingenious site map. Not only does this help you get a good overview of the structure of the site, but you can also use it to move around the site.

The work involved in compiling this site to date must have been immense, as must also be its continuing development and maintenance. I take my hat off to Fredrik for a superb piece of work in producing a 'very impressive presence on the web', as was recently said of ModelFlight!

Visit Fredrik's site at http://home.swipnet.se/fredwerg/index_e.htm 

 

 

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