Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc

[Wes]

OK, but how many of those park flyer drivers are members of the AMA?
Isn't the magazine supposed to be for AMA members?

Regards, &c...Wes



Richard Hallett wrote:

> 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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