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Once again a big welcome to the online magazine (netzine) of Federation Aeronautique Internationale Air Sports International. This issue of the netzine has some very thought provoking stories and articles. Blimps and airships are in the news again ! We have a story on "Blimps : Big, Beautiful and Everywhere you look" by Charles Barnard who gives his experiences of travelling in one of them and also narrates the history of these flying machines. In another story Karen Diamond, Editor, Sports Aerobatics, gives us a detailed account of the 1998 US National Aerobatic Championships, which event was like "Making a Milestone" according to her. Also in this issue we are taken for some Quiet Thrills while doing Aerobatics in Gliders by Jim Lumley. Another detailed piece written by David Anderson & Scott Eberhardt giving "A Physical Description of Lift" as part of their - How Airplanes Fly - educational series, is reproduced in this issue. Accompanied by a large number of diagrams and illustrations the piece is highly educative to those still toying with the idea of learning to fly ! Finally, in this issue we have a remembrance piece written on Late Oran W. Nicks. He is remembered by Tor Johannessen, President of the International Gliding Commission of FAI and by Piero Morelli, who knew him as a valued friend. We have received pictures of Oran through kind courtesy of his wife, Phyllis Nicks. This is yet another issue of Air Sports International netzine which promises to be interesting reading. Hope you enjoy reading it.
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