Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc

Tue Nov 12 15:40:47 AKST 2002

Hey, I wouldn't worry about them Park Fliers, Mike.  No testosterone 
enhanced pattern flier should even care.  I went to a Park Flier 
convention once (in a park).  You know what whorederves they served?  Tiny 
wieners and little nuts.

--Lance

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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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