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Barry Slater

I'm just reading through your latest edition and I came across the reference to grisoft. I have been using this anti-virus programme for some time now and can assure you it is first class. People in this part of the world can find it at www.grisoft.com

The programme is free, unobtrusive and effective. Hope this has been of some use, keep up the good work and may I wish you and yours all the best for the coming year,

Regards, Barry (Slater)

Thanks for that, Barry, and also your good wishes. With the recent spate of worms, viruses and hoaxes I have certainly found my virus detection software both valuable and reassuring!

From Jack Jet Williams - short but definitely sweet . . . This is really good - where is your turbine page? Jack Many thanks for your e-mail and its kind comment, Jack - much appreciated. I would love to have a turbine page, or at least some material on turbine interests from time to time. Unfortunately, it's out of my league right now, so if you - or anyone else reading this, of course - would like to contribute on the subject you would be most welcome! You could have a dedicated regular page or make contributions as you feel able - the space is here waiting for you! I did cover a meeting of the British Gas Turbine Builders Association that I attended last summer, I've had a few nice turbine models on the photo gallery and I have also featured Wren turbines on my 'cats corner' page, but that's been it so far.		Thanks and welcome to:
		Glenn Philbrick . . . Just come across your site, please send me a reminder . . . Thanks for a very interesting mag.
		. . . and Hector Piercey Just found your site from link from Flair . . . it looks great.

Here's Grapher on the subject of SC engines.

If spares are like the engines then they will be cheap. I have an SC .30 and it is the sweetest of all my engines and will tick over so slowly and yet reliably that one can see the propellor as a "still" now and again. These engines make a splendid example of the tripe some folk talk when they know nothing but what they hear in club bars. I was told by one of the elders of a local club never to buy SC because it stood for Simply Crap! It's a good job that I make up my own mind or I would have missed this gem of an engine.

I would be pleased to see that on your site as I think that SC are unjustly damned by the like's of that guy. My two best engines are the SC .30 and my Laser .70.

Grapher made this comment when I mentioned to him that I was waiting for a spare carb for my SC engine.

Phil Hayward explains about those tree surgeons listed on his website!

Hello Reg,

You mentioned my list of tree surgeons on no.50 - this has proved very useful to our club members. I have made a note of the ones that will come out on Sundays to rescue models. I have offered the list to flyers, they usually say they are not daft enough to fly a model into a tree, later in the year they ask for a copy! This list should be printed and carried in the car.

I carry balls of string and thin rope for pulling models out of trees. Our club has purchased a 10-metre carp pole that we use to dislodge models.

It's perfectly true - everybody seems to end up in a tree at some time or other! The carp pole is a good idea.

Norman Harris wrote from Burlington, Canada

Thanks for the very nice plug for the Burlington club [featured on #51], I must say I felt quite proud.

Just to show that I build other than small FF models here is a photo of my recent T-28 from an old Bridi kit [see photo gallery].

All my stuff is at least 20 years old, brand new - I saved it up for something to do when I retired. I worked it out that I have to live until at least to 135 to completely finish building my various projects . . .

As a matter of interest, I am still flying an old Pat French design/kit of the Economy Bipe fitted with a Enya 60 and one of the first Futaba 27m/h FM radios; this year it has completed 25 years of flying. It is the first plane into the air in the spring and the last one I put away when the snow flies, the only replacement parts fitted in this time was one servo (this year), and of course nicad batteries.

Now a question. I am building a Dave Banham 1/4 scale Miles Magister, I have a lot of photos of the aircraft except the flaps area. In the Miles book it shows one aircraft with the flaps down with a centre flap under the fuselage; in a picture of one of the preserved aircraft it shows the centre flap missing. Which is correct, or is the centre flap an air brake?

Hope someone can answer this for me

Very interesting about your old but new stuff, Norman - I hope you get them all finished!

I feel certain that one of you folk reading this can answer Norman's question - if you can, please e-mail me with the answer so we can all know! Copy Norman in if you like, otherwise I will pass on the answer to him.

Norman, I hope we will get some shots of the Miles Magister project - please!

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thank you and Best Regards

Ben Sze

Some good connections here . . .

Hi Reg

On seeing your article on FMS I would like to point you in the direction of my web site which sells leads and other things

Regards

Phil

http://www.clonepac.freeserve.co.uk

Phil offers this Tx interface cable for the fantastic free FMS model flight simulator for just £10 (there's also a link to download the software if you missed it on the last issue). Also on offer are 16K memory modules for the Futaba Field Force 8 and 9 series transmitters at only £10 each.

Nice to hear from Alvaro from Colombia

Hi Reg

Thank you for all your warm help and for your "virtual magazine" I receive each 2 weeks and read with pleasure.

Please continue to send your reminders each time you put your press in the cyber space.

Please accept my best wishes for this New Year, for you and for all family.

Sincerely, Alvaro Riascos.

Thanks so much, Alvaro, great to hear from you - and all the best to you and yours.

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