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My thanks Ian Greenacre, Tim Heath, Allan Knights and Tom Watson for their encouraging comments on the last issue.

Welcome to Mark Cuhaci, Bill Foster, Dave (Taffy) Jones, Nick Hartgroves, 'Polyat', Scott Ramsay and Luis Troyano who have all joined the mailing list.

That's my boy . . .

Tim Heath writes:

Looked at the site yesterday. Good as ever! I particularly liked the opening shot of the Victor - an elegant 'plane if ever there was one. In fact all the V-bombers were pretty spectacular.

Thanks, son! Tim's model-making interests lie in historic flat figures, but he visits ModelFlight from time to time just to see what his dad is up to!

Alan Tong, mastermind behind Alan's Hobby Web Links, New Zealand, spotted something peculiar on #46!

The cover pic on issue 46 - In the little box below your signature, the plane is described as a 'C130 of 47 Squadron RAF executing a turn'. I have examined the picture from every angle, tried reading and ordinary glasses with a magnifying glass, but am unable to make out the usual four engines with paddle blade props or those bulky U/C covers on the bottom sides of the fuse.

I know my eyesight is failing rapidly, but now I am getting worried - will buy some carrot juice; any other recommendations?

regards

Alan T.

Cheeky! In truth, it wasn't Alan's failing eyesight, but mine - I didn't spot that I had left part of the caption from #45 alongside the picture of the Handley Page Victor bomber! Mind you, not many of you will have seen it, 'cos Alan brought it to my attention within an hour or two of the issue being on the net and I corrected it VERY quickly after that!

Scott Ramsay - man with a mission, but not impossible!

"I am looking for a coaxial R/C helicopter such as the Russian Ka-25. Do you know anyone who makes such a model?"

Scott sent me a couple of URLs where I could see what he's got in mind. On the left, a full-size Kamov Ka-50, centre and right, Giorgio Fontanella, 'Italian passionate model maker', with his beautiful hand-built model of the Kamov Ka25 Hormone-A. 600 hours of work here, with two 3-bladed rotors. Giorgio made the blades of fibre glass and Kevlar, lost some 40 blades during testing, making replacements every time. Powered by an adapted OPS60 Speed motor.

Sorry, Scott, but I have never seen any commercially available model of co-axial choppers, and I suspect Giorgio's is the only route, but if anybody knows differently, PLEASE let us know.

If you want to see more, here's the website addresses that Scott sent me:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1639/

http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/ka-50-r.html

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