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Material Needed
As you may have noticed, we are taking a slightly different approach with our website in that we are featuring a new photograph on our home page every few days. We're trying to alternate between focusing attention on a Falco builder a-working on a Falco, and a finished-and-flying Falco.

We have a problem, though. We need more photos and entries for the Falco Hangar and Falco Workshop! Please send us photographs of your project, a photograph of yourself and a some sort of write-up. In both the Falco Workshop and Hangar, we have an instruction sheet on what we are looking for, so please send us something. Yes, I know, everyone hates photos of themselves, but everyone else likes to see what we look like.

The Aerolite Situation
Some of you have contacted us to inform us that Aircraft Spruce and Wicks Aircraft are no longer offering Aerolite glue. I have been working on this and attempting to find out if this is a temporary or permanent situation. In 1989, Ciba-Geigy sold the Aerolite product line to DynoChem UK, in Mold, Clwyd, North Wales, UK. I have also contacted the manager of Wicks Aircraft and he says he is interested in continuing to offer Aerolite if he can get it. I've supplied Wicks with the information on DynoChem, and now let's wait and see if they can work it out. In a situation like this, I think it's best to try to help Wicks and not get in the middle of a business relationship. I'll let you know more information as I have it. We have posted information on Aerolite Sources in the Falco Skunkworks.

Parts Manual/Kit Brochure
When we began to offer the Falco kits, we copied the basic ideas and concepts of the Christen Eagle kits. For each kit, we have a three-dimensional drawing depicting the parts in the kit, and a brief verbal description of the kit. An in-house, we have a master shipping list defining the components that go into each kit.

I am beginning to start work on changing all this and go to a much more complete and informative presentation of the kits on our website. I don't have the concepts completely worked out yet, but I'm thinking of an exploded three-dimensional depiction of each kit, and that you will be able to click on parts of the drawing to locate the parts. With a microfilm system, you can move around and locate the part number on the drawing. With the web, we ought to emulate this, up to a point, but I'm thinking of being able to click on a part in a kit, and this would then take you to a more complete presentation of the component.

We will probably also need an indexed list of parts for the Falco, so that you can click on each part and it will take you to the detailed description of the part and also kit(s) that the part appears in.

I also want to combine this maintenance/support capability with our marketing 'literature' on the Falco kits, so that our world will expand and so that we can show what the kits and components are.

I'm looking for ideas and suggestions for how to approach this, and I'm always interested in seeing examples of what other companies have done -- why invent an idea when you can steal one! So please keep your eyes open for ideas, and send me your suggestions. And if you see something on the Internet, please send me the web address so I can check it out.

Many thanks,

Alfred Scott
alfred@seqair.com