Weight Limit

[Terry Terrenoire]

Bill: I have been writing for RCX for over 3 years now and have a little
knowledge of their background. The majority of the magazine is devoted to
the "larger" planes. The editor was the Highflight editor for many years.
His heart is in the big planes, and I think he'll do an excellent job of
promoting the IMAC.

I have been using my column to promote entry level pattern participation
and have been doing the ARF reviews that a few on this list were scorning
recently. I'm sure they were not taking shots at me, but I have not seen
any of them do reviews and submit them for publication.
I started writing about 10 years ago, and the first thing I had published
was a kit review I submitted to Gordon Banks. It was the Bridi XLT. That
lead to writing a regular column for him for 5 years.

So, anyone can do it!!!! Take your favorite project, make some notes
while building it, then take it to the field, make some notes on final
inspection and flight prep. then fly the wings off and tell everyone how
it went. If you want to talk about it's tendancy to pull to the canopy in
knife edge flight, be my guest. If the review is well thought out, and
logically presented, with some good photos, it will stand a very good
chance of getting published. With 5 major mags to consider, one is sure
to be interested.

I for one, am ALWAYS looking for new information. In my last column I
used one of the accounts from a newbee on this forum. He described his
introduction to pattern!

Terry T.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:48:34 -0600 Bill Glaze <billglaze at triad.rr.com>
writes:
> Tom:
> Just wondered about the membership.  Probably about right.
> I warned them that the deal with R/C Excellence is a very bad and 
> shortsighted
> idea.  We defeated it when it was brought up before; this time they 
> followed the
> siren song.  I predict they'll be sorry.  I've got my copy 
> (electronic) at my
> side, and the quality already shows down from when Dave Arndt was 
> publishing.
> The new people feel that the exposure to "thousands of people" (I'm 
> not so sure
> that is truly the case); that "thousands of people" will even be 
> interested.
> But, I'm always suspicious when somebody says they'll "do me a 
> favor" and I may
> be wrong, but I believe it's a mistake to turn such an important 
> organ over to
> someone who probably doesn't have your interest at heart the way you 
> do.  Sort
> of like "outsourcing" except with only a single source.  Always 
> risky.
> Anyway: No longer my problem.
> I dropped out when they put the airplanes on steroids.  I have 
> limited my
> modeling to airplanes with an 80" w.s.  I've got a couple of really 
> good flying
> 80" CAP 232's, and some CGB Sukhois or 74" wingspan.  Any of these 
> will in the
> proper hands fly just as precision as the huge stuff; but they just 
> won't score
> as well.
> I've decided to let them go their own way.
> 
> Bill Glaze
> 
> "Thomas C. Weedon" wrote:
> 
> > Bill,
> > The latest that I have heard is that they have experienced some 
> drop outs
> > after the orginal excitment a few years ago which leaves them 
> around 800
> > members. The IMAC contests up here have been down on attendance 
> over this
> > last year. Tom Wheeler told me that they were tight on money and 
> could not
> > afford to publish a magazine without a loss. That's why they were 
> pushing
> > their on-line issue. Now that they have joined with RC Excellance 
> magazine,
> > their publishing problems my go away. Just my observations. I still 
> want to
> > fly IMAC when I have the time. I have 2 good planes (only 80"w.s. 
> though)
> > Tom W.
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