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Time really flies is the age old saying. The reality of time flying for Air Sports International (pun not intended !) strikes one when one realises that we have completed four years of publishing on the net. The magazine itself is now eleven years old. With the Forty Eighth issue we complete four full years. A time to look back and assess our past work and plan for the years ahead. When we released our first web issue in January 1998, we were new to the net as was the entire world. Today we are four years wiser and have a lot more experience in this new business that took the world by storm in the 90's. We do plan to use our experience to improve the magazine as best as possible. The only thing that keeps us from racing ahead is the thought that we have very many readers just coming on board that may not have access to the bandwidth that we are used to and downloading of massive files will delay their reading pleasure. We thus technically cater to the lowest common denominator so that we can carry every one with us. In the December 2001 issue we have a photo feature on the 94th FAI General Conference 2000. One can see from the pictures that the Swiss Aero Club had really laid it on. Pity I missed it. The second story came in from the erstwhile Soviet Union. We are glad to place before our readers a story on space ships, a subject we have not really carried too much in our magazine. The third story in the issue comes once again from Anita Lesko, a prolific writer on military aviation. This month she narrates the story of Eglin's 33rd Fighter Wing, calling them Nomads. A well illustrated feature. The last story takes us back into history. Michael Koenig updates us on the efforts being made in trying to locate Amelia Earhart's aeroplane that disappeared in the Pacific Ocean over half a century ago. An old aviation mystery that has confounded aviators over the years. Wishing our readers Season's Greetings.
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