AVIATION POSTCARD CLUB INTERNATIONAL
NEWSLETTER NO. 38
MARCH 2002
ANNIVERSARY YEAR
Editorial impressions by Doug Bastin
Welcome back to all those who have rejoined for our tenth anniversary
2002.
I am pleased to say that we have had few drop-offs this year and have
already added some members too. A new membership list is enclosed with this issue - with a
larger print size to reduce eyestrain. We
now really do run from A to Z with the addition of Robin Zamitt from Malta in addition to Ian Hayward in Surrey and,
Geoff Dryden in Canada. See the new
combined worldwide member list for their details. Anniversary events are either
planned or under way. We are still hoping for some kind of get-together in the
Heathrow area towards the end of the year. As it appears that over 50% of the
membership is now on E-mail, I think we can be justified in asking this sample
for their opinions at zero cost. So, how many of you would be likely to attend a
such a gathering and what would you like to see there apart from other members
and their spare cards – answers to bastindw@aol.com
(ironically this has largely displaced
the traditional “answers on a postcard” which can of course still be used)
Heathrow would be an apt location because
the cards of Heathrow are going to be our catalogue subject for 2002.
More about this project on P.5. The cover shot is one of the rarer cards,
LP30, from the well known Fry black
and white photographic series from the 50s and shows Ambassador/Elizabethan
“Sir Robert Cecil” (G-AMAC)
with its nose cone up on a night shot. Featuring
the Elizabethan is, I guess another link to 2002 as jubilee year and another
tenuous one is an article by Ken Harman on aviation
and Edward VIII, without whose abdication all
key royal dates would have been
somewhat different. No Pioneer Page
this time but the Pioneer Sub-Group is thriving – details from Ken
Jones
Another anniversary event
is the construction of our Website. It now has a name www.aviapc.com
, and, as befits the Aviation Postcard Club INTERNATIONAL is being built
in Germany by Christian Gerbich. More
on this next issue when it should be well past the prototype stage but the
objectives are set out on P.5 The
other international item of note is our centerfold article on the Russian built
DC-3 , the Lisunov LI-2, by Polish member Robert Stachyra.
What we NOT doing with this issue is a 24 –pager. This is simply
because we have the membership list to send out as well this month and extra
pages would drive up the mail costs. All in all could be an interesting year but
hopefully not in the way of the supposed Chinese curse “May you live in
Interesting Times”
Doug Bastin March 2002