really marketing/popularity/etc

[ronlock]

My favorite one is:  " ~  The club hot-shot few it and
found it will do every maneuver in the book !.."

Ron Lockhart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomanek, Wojtek" <tomanekw at saic-abingdon.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc


> Yes they are funny.  I am paraphrasing here from a recently review I read
>
> 1)  "Decided to change the tail wheel since I (the author) did not like
the
> way it looked, however I (the author) decided to use all other hardware
> including the tank and engine mount.", or
> 2)  "After taxiing several times applied throttle and takeoff was very
> smooth, after few rounds it only required one click down on elevator and
no
> trim change on ailerons!!!!!!"
> or better yet
> 3) "It settled down perfectly for a nice flare landing."
>
> The best ones I love is when on a 0.40 size plane the author says that he
> had to add 1.5 oz to the tail to balance on CG and 0.75 oz on one wing but
> it did not hinder the performance.
>
> I guess if they started talking about control authority or pitching to
belly
> in knife edge, or rudder roll coupling they would lose a lot of readers.
>
> WKT
>
> P.S. I'll save my nails <G>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Woodward James R Civ 416 FLTS/TPS
> [SMTP:James.Woodward2 at edwards.af.mil]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: 'discussion at nsrca.org'
> Subject: RE: Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc
>
> - funny!!  .... "on the second flight, I felt pretty comfortable and
> did a beautiful victory roll after buzzing the other pilot stations."
Your
> not far off Gray.  In a recent mag, there was a "new"  0.40 P51 review -
and
> they listed every P51 kit/arf manufactorer, and rated each for its
> qualities!  ... but they didn't talk about which P-51 hovered the best.
> I'll be biting my nails in anticipation of that column!
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gray E Fowler [mailto:gfowler at raytheon.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> 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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