This calendar makes a super gift and looks great in any workshop.  With the holidays coming up, you might want to leave this information in a common space, so that special person might see it and act on it.
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the decision: this should be the year to do it. But not with one model or two.
I bought on purpose a streamlined roof rack of 430 liter capacity and managed to stuff in 10 models, 4 with fixed stabilizers and 6 with removable. All electric powered of course. Six small cases with two JR388 transmitters, tools,chargers, batteries and a DC supply were put in the the back of the station wagon along with our luggage (four persons).
After 600 km and 8 hours later, we reached my wife's home village Mikro Souli in Macedonia. Since the small house was hosting other relatives too, the only room to place my "workshop" was in an ex animal barn, now servicing as a junk room. No electricity there, so back in

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Flying During Summer Vacations
John Konstantakatos 
<email: remek@ath.forthnet.gr>

So a dream came true. I spent 3 weeks of vacations with my models. Flying almost every day, in perfect weather. What else can a modeler ask for?
For some years now I wanted to take a model or two along my vacations, and do some flying. Furthermore, since the day we lost our flying field two years ago (see it even happens in Greece! Km), I didn't have the chance to do much flying, but I kept buying new models for the day to come. So the lack of flying satisfaction was growing so violently inside me that I finally took

John and George

the main building's small "all purpose" closet where I borrowed the clothes ironing rig as a bench for the chargers, etc.  But too often the wives had to iron the cloths, and I had to charge from the car's battery. No wonder how many times I tried to explain to the locals (continue)