This has been a wonderful trip, gentlemen,but it has come to an end. Obligations related to my job will prevent me from continuing to edit AIR POWER or to participate as fully in the business as I would like to. It certainly has been enjoyable but the Editorship will pass to J.D. with issue #19 and thereafter (unless he ropes some other unwilling dupe into the job). When J.D. called me on the phone in late January of 1989, I didn't realize what I was getting into. I'm a quick learner but diving headfirst into running a subscriber business, combined with getting up to speed in desktop publishing was challenging to say the least! It's a good thing that I had the sort of free time that comes with being a college professor because I needed it. But time marches on. For a number of reasons, I was compelled to leave the cozy confines of LaGrange College and move into the defense industry in Huntsville. The job is wonderful but it requires considerably more time and comes complete with conflicts of interest. I have not been able to devote the time needed to maintain the quality of the newsletter since I came up here and a prolonged bout with an ear infection that left me uninterested in putting in extra time did not help the situation. I apologize to those of you who have been the victims of my inability to keep things running smoothly. It has always been our intent to produce quality in AIR POWER and this is just one more reason for me to step down. Nevertheless, I will be involved with the newsletter to the limit of my abilities to do so. Even though I cannot continue editing AIR POWER, I will still contribute a Tactics Talk article for each issue and I'll probably be sending along suggested rules, book reviews, and unsolicited stuff like the refined Tournament Guidelines. You didn't think you'd get rid of me that easily, did you? I may even give J.D. some sage advice from time to time (whether he wants it or not). Starting with your receipt of this issue (which should be bundled with #17), there is a new mailing address for AIR POWER shown in the masthead on the right. There will be some transition period as a new printer and distributor must be found and mail directed to the Huntsville address must be forwarded to the Ann Arbor address. Try to be patient with us while we get this sorted out. I know that J.D. has every intention of continuing the newsletter and of providing support for Second Edition far into the future. It may be a little early to be discussing ORIGINS since you've just been subjected to seemingly endless tournament reviews, but I understand that AIR POWER Inner Sanctum has a little surprise in store for me in Milwaukee this August, and some of you may want to be there to see it. In any case, since I am now free of sponsoring the tourney, I'll be able to play again next year. Are you up for it Top Wop? And here's a toast to the subscribers: thank you one and all for your support. You've been a great group and I couldn't have done it without you! Back to Table of Contents -- Air Power # 18 Back to Air Power List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1991 by J.D. Webster This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com