Team Trials

[jim ivey]

What's bulls and bears got to do with flying toy airplanes.

Jim I

----- Original Message -----
From: spbyrum
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:26 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: Team Trials

You guys are all missing the point.  MA is being politically correct.  They’re trying not to offend anyone.  We don’t necessarily worry about offending folks, especially each other.  When we offend each other, we usually get over it (or move on).  The herd grumps and holds a grudge.  History shows two things.  The big bull doesn’t care who he offends and he makes the herd stronger.  We don’t get team trial coverage because it offends the hear, but we’ll continue to try new stuff looking for an edge as we compete against each other.  The herd will probably think all this really neat powerful quite stuff was worked out in France or China.   
  
Spare us all from politically correctness.
  
-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Rcmaster199 at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:05 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Team Trials
  
Dean,

I never knew that. That's like saying "everybody sport drives so NASCAR will never be covered nationally ". yeah, right, when pigs fly. Have the editors of these magazines gone mad??  

How many times has the point been made in regard to what really drives advancement in the hobby? Obviously, no one is listening

This is trully sad; in other words some of the sport and park flyers want us to be ashamed for flying competitively. What is this all coming to? I say all competitors unite now and present a unified front

Matt Kebabjian




Subj:RE: Team Trials  
Date:6/17/2003 11:34:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:d.pappas at kodeos.com
Reply-to:discussion at nsrca.org
To:discussion at nsrca.org
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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

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Stillman [mailto:tony at radiosouthrc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:30 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: Team Trials


David:

Don't bet on it.  AMA didn't even think it important enough to cover in
Model Aviation...

Tony Stillman
Radio South
3702 N. Pace Blvd.
Pensacola, FL 32505
1-800-962-7802
www.radiosouthrc.com
----- Original Message -----  
From: "David Lockhart" <DaveL322 at comcast.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Team Trials


> Jason S - OS 160 EFI (Mintor 170 in backup)
> Peter C - OS 140 RX
> Dave L - OS 140 EFI
> Ron E - Webra 145
>
> I'm sure a full equipment list/matrix will be published elsewhere.
  
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