Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc

[Richard Hallett]

It is sad but simple marketing.  I can't buy what I used to buy at Wal-Mart because there were not enough people like me buying that object

Park flyers presently probably outnumber pattern in the order of 1000+ to 1.

You have x number of pages.  Who gets them?  

We are lucky to see an article every second month on the basis of numbers we have more pages per plane than we deserve.

Rick
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Hester 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:28 PM
  Subject: Re: Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc


  HAHAHAHA

  Damn Gray I'm about to fall over!!!!

  I find it sick that MA is cutting the pattern column to bi monthly because *ahem* "nobody is interested". Well DUH!!! 100 pages of nothing but park fliers and junk ARFs and useless reviews of said junk. Please. 

  When's the last time you saw a pattern plane on the cover of MA? I'm thinking....I honestly can't remember. I bet half the people see that Andy jesky ad and say "whut kinda plane izzat? Does it 3 dee? Don't luk like no edge..."

  I also find it amusing that in the latest MA, they are talking about an online magazie and they are going to push guess what? The new exhilirating rage of R/C....PARK FLIERS!!! Gosh, I just can't contain myself. I mean, they're ok, they're cute, nothing against them, but they are cutting pattern out of the picture and replacing it with a serious push towards PARK FLIERS???? Does this mean the AMA is sick of trying to help us keep fields and wants everyone to just start flying in the back yard????

  And here I thought the AMA pres was an ex-pattern pilot, and a pretty darned good one in his day. Did someone drop something on his head? Has Dave Brown gone completely insane? 

  Ok that was my rant for the year. Mild, but necessary. 

  -Mike Hester



    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Gray E Fowler 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:24 AM
    Subject: RE: Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc



    Like Buddy mentioned its the magazines, not some concerted effort by IMAC to market sportsman. I do not believe I have ever seen anything from IMAC, but every model mag has either a scale warbird OR a scale .40 IMAC plane on the cover. Real IMAC planes are ONLY shown on covers of anything in the hover position, and we all know how important that is(speaking of that , perhaps someone should mention to the self proclaimed #1 pattern supply place that perhaps a new photo would be in order to appease us-my personal choice would be of an Aries). 
    Perhaps a Pattern marketing effort could help, but "IMAC style" became popular because the magazines are all in a vicious butt sniffing mode to get out the latest reveiw of the NEW 60 sized IMAC type ARF-gotta be an ARF or no one will buy it right? Why this frenzy I have no idea, but it is not IMAC marketing (unless there is some serious under the table stuff-but I honestly think if anyone is paying money its gotta be the Chinese). 

    PS-what the RC world really needs the mags to do is give us one more review on the NEW .40 P-51 ARF, complete with genuine imitation exhaust stacks for more realistic runway fly-bys. Report on how the first take -off was...did it pull right and require left rudder-I gotta know..... 


    Just an opinion


    Gray Fowler
    Principal Chemical Engineer
    Composites Engineering
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