Issue 68
January 2003

 

Hi Friends,

First of all, many thanks to those of you who sent me kind Christmas and New Year greetings - including a REAL Christmas card from Clive Bussey from the Netherlands, which I very much appreciated.

My Big Computer Crash certainly gave rise to a lot of problems last month! I won't bore you with all the details, except to say how grossly disappointed I was with Dell Technical Support - talk about frustrating . . . ! I managed to salvage work from my hard disk with the help of a local computer supplier who removed my drive, rigged it up to one of his PCs and copied vital files off it for me, including the December issue which was complete and ready to go! After that, my PC had to go back to Dell (despite my having a Next Business Day on-site warranty, but we won't go into that, either!) from whence it was returned 10 days later!

I also had a two-week old back-up of my address book which made it possible for me to contact most of you, but if you expected to get a reminder for the December issue but didn't, then please read the special note at the top of the post box page - thanks! I have now re-designed my desktop (left) with a bold notice that states 'back up before powering down' so that I receive a timely reminder to myself to back-up just as I am about to shut the computer down!

Andrew Donatelli has kindly sent me the necessary information to provide a link to his very useful r/c related search engine, and this now appears at the foot of the post box and main links pages. I hope you will find it useful - I already have! Thanks, Andrew!

I haven't received much feed-back on your response to the appeal for r/c bits and pieces for the Albanian 'Eagles' Youth Project that was featured on the December issue, but I do know of one kind ModelFlight reader who has sent two model kits and another who has donated a full set of radio gear (four servos, receiver and crystal, switch harness, nicad and servo extension lead).

A very Happy New Year and warm regards to one and all!

60 South View Gardens • Andover • Hants • SP10 2AQ • UK

This month's opening screen Here is Pat Tritle's beautiful 1914 Curtiss Pusher, the design and construction of which we have been following from the word 'go'. This shot was taken on her maiden flight on 28th December, and despite less-than-ideal weather conditions, Pat reports that she flew well. Read about the final stages of construction and Pat's summary of the maiden flight on work in progress. Click the minipic on the left to return to the cover screen or the thumbnail on the right to see the picture alone.

 

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