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Within 24 hours of this issue going on the web, Gary Clemans-Gibbon, his wife and three children are leaving the UK to make a new start in Canada. 

Gary owns and runs a web-hosting company, angryrhino.net, and also has a brilliant web site offering totally free and instant classified advertising for model flight enthusiasts - R/C Pages. It was Gary who encouraged and helped me to build the archive for all back-numbers of ModelFlight and he has generously made available all the web space needed for it on his server on very special terms indeed. He also very kindly runs a lovely little advert on his R/C Pages for each issue of ModelFlight as it goes to the web.

Gary will 'export' his business with him, of course, such is the flexibility of net-based activities. He has recently purchased a new server which will even further improve the service he can offer commercially, and from my first-hand involvement with him I can thoroughly recommend angryrhino.net to anyone who may be looking for web site hosting or web building.

Although I am sure we will remain in touch, I take this opportunity of expressing my personal thanks to Gary for all he has done for ModelFlight and to wish him and his family every success and happiness in their new life.

Too much weight

Two hunters flew deep into Canada for elk hunting. Their pilot, seeing they had bagged six elk, told them the plane could carry only four out. "But the plane that carried us out last year was exactly like this one," the hunters protested! "The horsepower was the same, the weather was similar and we had six elk then."

Hearing this, the pilot reluctantly agreed to try. They loaded up and took off, but sure enough, there was insufficient power to climb out of the valley with all that weight and they crashed. As they stumbled from the wreckage, one hunter asked the other if he knew where they were. "Not sure," said the second, "but I think we are about two miles from where we crashed last year."

the second of two glorious autumn photo-montages from Derek Veliz, Acton, USA, the first having appeared on the last issue

The latest published news on Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2002 is that it will be released this month (November) - the official UK release date is 9th November. 

The release was postponed following the tragedy of September 11, and it seems that Microsoft have now removed the World Trade Center twin towers from the New York scenery and may have modified some of the increased realism that they had introduced into crash situations.