Team Trials

[GeorgeF.]

>Hi Tony, Hi All,
>
>Tony, when you said that, "AMA didn't even think it important enough to 
>cover in Model Aviation...", something inside me twinged. So I called dear 
>friend Bob Hunt(the editor at MA) and asked him if there was to be even 
>cursory coverage. Realize that the man I'm talking to is a World Champion 
>in Control-Line Aerobatics, and still a competitor ... His voice saddened 
>and he told me that the policy at MA is that no team trials are covered, 
>lest they all have to be covered. Every time something about competition 
>is covered, droves of readers write in to complain. After every December 
>issue (the NATs coverage issue) they are barraged with complaints about 
>the the waste of magazine space. World championships might get coverage, 
>if they happen in the U.S.! The mediocre have censored coverage of 
>excellence. Don't hassle Bob, he is one of us!
>
>O.K., for homework, everyone go (re)read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".
>
>Bewildered,
>     Dean Pappas


Isn't part of the AMA's mission to promote all forms of Model 
Aviation?  Isn't competition part of Model Aviation?   Seems like by not 
covering competition you're not promoting and advancement of model 
aviation.  In this case everyone looses from the hard core competitor to 
the sport flier and the park fliers.....

George


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