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Suggestions to Preston Briggs
This site was last updated on February 15, 2008. |
December 30, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. December 26, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. December 2, 2003 -- Wrote down, where I can find it, the size of the engine mount for the Nelson tuning fork. November 24, 2003 -- Added a copy of the slides for a talk Mark Rudner gave to the Charles River RC club, introducing them to F2D (and CL combat in general). They're in PDF form, so you'll need the appropriate viewer from Adobe. November 17, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. Added a little information about Jeffrey Rein's latest musical venture. November 12, 2003 -- Expanded the people collection. Updated the calendar. November 8, 2003 -- Added a little section showing a neat trick for storing Superglue. October 15, 2003 -- Updated the calendar with a pointer to info about Son of a Gun. October 10, 2003 -- Added some new quotes and some new music. October 2, 2003 -- Added a new section explaining, in excruciating detail, the one-flip start for the Nelson. September 30, 2003 -- Finally added Mike's notes from the Riverside contest. September 29, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. September 26, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. Corrected the date for the Virgil Wilbur Memorial. September 25, 2003 -- Added a new project, by Mark Rudner. September 22, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. September 18, 2003 -- Added a few notes from Pat Willcox about the Team Trials. Added Pete Athans to the list of suppliers. September 10, 2003 -- Added Hiperfuels.com to the list of suppliers. September 3, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. August 29, 2003 -- Added a link to Jonathon Crabtree's site. August 25, 2003 -- Added Tom Morris to the list of suppliers. August 15, 2003 -- Started (barely) a page on the Bladder Grabber. I'll add more in a couple of weeks. August 13, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. July 23, 2003 -- Göran Olsson has posted results from the European Championships. Pictures from Veronique Beringer are also up. Looks like Lopez in one of them. July 18, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. July 17, 2003 -- Added pictures of the Kopka's to the people section. Added pictures of the latest versions of the H&R shutoff. July 13, 2003 -- Filled in some pictures from the Riverside contest. Fixed some typos and added more pictures to the team trials page. July 11, 2003 -- Added a few pictures from the team trials. I expect there will be more later, along with some stories. Made a page to hold pictures from Riverside, but don't have them up yet. July 3, 2003 -- Found a supplier of new pen bladders! June 30, 2003 -- Updated the suppliers list to reflect the new supplier of TNC tachs. Updated the calendar. June 17, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. June 16, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. June 10, 2003 -- Added a new picture to the section on other hobbies. At least one of those guys is a world champ. June 9, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. June 6, 2003 -- Added a couple more pictures to the Whittier Narrows report. June 4, 2003 -- Expanded the people collection. Added a few new pictures from contests. Added a new project, by Jeffrey Rein. June 2, 2003 -- Extended the people collection. Updated the calendar. May 29, 2003 -- Added a contest report on the Northwest Regionals. Added a new supplier. May 28, 2003 -- Added a contest report on the World Cup in Landres. Expanded the other hobbies section with some pictures from John Morrow. Added another picture of Phil Granderson. May 27, 2003 -- Expanded the people section. Added another picture for the Houston World Cup. Expanded the other hobbies section with an offering from Mark Rudner. May 23, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. May 21, 2003 -- Added some pictures from Mark Hansen of Roy Heppenstall's fuel dump. Expanded the coverage of Jeffrey Rein's killer pinewood derby cars. May 14, 2003 -- Started a new section, Other hobbies, wherein we will present interesting things combat fliers get up to in their spare time. Updated the list of suppliers. Updated the calendar. May 13, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. May 12, 2003 -- Updated the list of suppliers. May 9, 2003 -- Added more info and some recent pictures of the new H&R shutoff. May 8, 2003 -- Added one more picture for the Houston World Cup. May 7, 2003 -- Added pictures from Pat Willcox for the Houston World Cup. May 5, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. Added a report from the Houston World Cup. April 25, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. April 24, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. April 15, 2003 -- Added a report from the Northwest Vintage Diesel contest held last weekend. Expanded the people section. April 14, 2003 -- Updated the calendar (the Wompatuck Ice Breaker has been rescheduled slightly). Be sure to check out the expanding New England Combat News site. Added a few pictures from the Ekaterinburg Cup. April 10, 2003 -- Updated the links page with a pointer to a page by Igor Milenin, full of pictures. Added a new contest report. March 31, 2003 -- Added a report from Top Gun, thanks to Mike Willcox. Updated the calendar. March 25, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. Added a new quote. March 12, 2003 -- Added more pictures of glue! March 10, 2003 -- Added pictures of another plane rack. Added pictures of a genuine pen bladder, from Howard's collection. Added more pictures to the people section. Added a brief report from the Frozen Fingers contest. March 7, 2003 -- Expanded the people section. Added some new music. March 5, 2003 -- Updated the link to the Flightlines forum. March 3, 2003 -- Added a little more info on the new H&R shutoff. February 28, 2003 -- Expanded the people section. February 27, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. February 22, 2003 -- Added some pictures of Buzz Wilson's stooge. Started filling in a section on chicken sticks and fingershields. February 19, 2003 -- Added a picture of Larry Driskill's latest LiteHawks. February 15, 2003 -- Added some text from Jeffrey Rein giving some background on the new shutoff. February 14, 2003 -- Replaced "gif" formatted pictures with "jpeg"s, still aiming for faster loading times. February 13, 2003 -- Added some pictures of Pat Willcox's 1/2A handle, thanks to Buzz Wilson. February 12, 2003 -- Made Ken's unedited version of the GFAP story available. February 11, 2003 -- Updated the calendar with info about The Lone Star Shootout, August 30-31. Added a couple of pictures of a Stels engine. Temporarily suppressed the GFAP article while the editor and author negotiate. Turns out we both have standards, sigh. February 10, 2003 -- Added the story of Ken, Jeff and the GFAP, with illustrations. Added some pictures of Tony Huber's new shutoff. February 7, 2003 -- Expanded the people section. Started a program of shrinking the memory consumption of excessively large pictures (those requiring more than 70 KBytes). Therefore, loading speeds should improve, eventually. February 6, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. February 5, 2003 -- Added a new quote. February 3, 2003 -- General cleaning up of broken links and other typos. January 29, 2003 -- Added a new song (really an entire album). Updated the calendar. January 28, 2003 -- Added a new section on the Snort, Howard Rush's FAI plane from the 1990 World Champs. January 25, 2003 -- Added a link to Don Jensen's website. January 23, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. January 22, 2003 -- Added a new supplier, called Buzzflight. Made a local copy of Bryce Gibson's report to save shipping costs on all those bytes. Updated the calendar. January 16, 2003 -- Found a report on the recent Australian Nats. And here's a link to Bryce Gibson's report on Pat's pitting at the World Champs. January 15, 2003 -- Added another couple of pictures illustrating alternative plane storage racks. January 9, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. January 8, 2003 -- Added a new section illustrating the design of a plane storage rack built from PVC pipe. January 6, 2003 -- Updated the calendar. January 4, 2003 -- Added a new picture (courtesy of Iskandar Taib), illustrating one of our favorite songs. January 3, 2003 -- Moved last year's updates to a separate page. Updated the links to John James' page. Added a link to Ray Stone's page. |