The fall brings with it traditions. It can

be in the form of flying kites, admiring the

fall colours, pumpkins, or simply noticing

the sun’s rays piercing down through low

clouds of the autumn sky at earlier hours

then a few weeks prior. This is what I took

note of, as illustrated so well in the attached photo taken from a recent training flight in a C-172. Don’t rat me out, though….

as in a car, use of a cellphone during the

operation of a motor airplane is forbidden. Or at least, the one at the controls

shouldn’t be snapping pics. Still, I think

that such a violation of the rules is a lot

less dangerous in the air than in a car on

a busy highway. But look at the picture again. Who among us wouldn’t have

thought to capture the view for posterity?

that come before it. It’s the bottleneck

that could stop everything. The thought of

nothing going out is something we dearly

want to avoid. One thing that we can avoid

is overtaxing an already overtaxed packing

and mailing system any further. This leads

me to address the increasing volume of

questions as to when we will be holding

some sort of special offer event, an Afterparty, some other form of a sale, free postage.….and other goodies. Unfortunately,

Friends, we cannot afford to do to our system of operation the sort of things that an

Afterparty does under current conditions.

We have to endure, and live with the comfort of the thought of better times ahead

when such events can and will be held.

But, in an effort to uphold some of the

traditions that have developed over the

past several years, we have decided to announce this years’ Edoween, an event we

typically hold at the end of October and

into the beginning of November. But, in order to not contradict myself with respect

to the paragraph above, I have to say that

this year’s Edoween will be minus the sale

component.

The rest of it remains unchanged. We

have some 500 etches with the Edoween

theme associated with them, which are

illustrated down below. This year, the pieces will be in brass, the size and theme

of which remain unchanged. They will be

included with all internet orders that go

through our e-shop between November 1st

and 3rd, while supplies last.

So, at least with this, we can still get

a taste of tradition, and look forward to

the day with some optimism when we

won’t need to set any limiting restrictions. Let’s all hope that such days are

coming soon, with the days getting longer just around the corner. And I know

that you know what time of year I have

in mind. The sun, and the passing of the

year, have their own traditions that we,

people, with all our technical developments, our politics, our natural or artificial

viruses, sometimes are sadly unaware of.

Jan Zdiarský,

PR & Marketing, Eduard.

This fall, and really, this whole year, has

given us something that no one wants to

become a tradition. You know exactly what

I am referring to. The abnormal winds that

have blown in, and the effects that it has

in conjunction with the apparent coming

apart at the seams of the world at large,

has meant a slew of restrictions, cancellations and ruined get togethers that have

adversely impacted the modelling community. This has also entered into our firm

with a set of restrictions and modifications that have needed to be implemented.

But even despite all this, we still want to

prepare new kits, new accessories, foster

new ideas, to design, to draw, to create and also to supply…. And it is the end

of all of those processes, the supply end of

it, that is in danger of limitation and impacting the usefulness of all those things