Artistic Aerobatics suggestions

[Bill Glaze]

Dave:
While the TOC drew large  crowds, the attendees were still model 
airplane enthusiasts.  Point being, that even "The Greatest Modeling 
Show On Earth"<G> didn't attract large numbers of pure laymen.  Some, 
yes; big numbers, no.  And, having been associated with a truly large, 
well publicized  contest in 1960 in Miami that DID draw huge numbers of 
spectators, (literally thousands of spectators, pictures on the front 
page of  the Miami Herald, B & W TV time, etc.) still and all, did 
modeling advance because of this?  I fail to see how, if it did.
My feeling is that recruitment will not be coming from the public ranks, 
but from interested modelers.

So, for now, I feel that the sport would be best served by satisfying 
the folks that are in it presently, and try to turn them into 
"recruiters" of additional folks from the local model field, who are 
already interested enough to watch pattern folks fly.  Takes work?  
Yes.  Doable? Also yes.
And, I'll also say, with a tip of the hat to Dave Lockhart, that the 
newer pattern ARF's of reasonable price, will go a long way toward 
advancing this sport.

Bill Glaze

David Harmon wrote:

> I agree with the below.....I think the AA idea is silly anyway as well 
> as having an announcer for the 'spectators'.
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> These contests are not TOC type events that draw crowds from all over, 
> these contests are local and interest in them will probably be limited 
> as far as 'spectators' are concerned.
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> Regards
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> Dave Harmon
> NSRCA 586
> K6XYZ[at]comcast[dot]net
> Torrance, Ca.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org 
> [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of MargueriteVG at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:14 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: Artistic Aerobatics suggestions
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>  less pattern  contest events and split dedication because of a new 
> "group" is one of the reasons why I agree   that  we should not move 
> to quickly into Artistic Aerobatics if at all?
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> Marguerite
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> In a message dated 1/25/2004 7:42:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> Divesplat1 at msn.com writes:
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>     I am also terribly against trying to have a freestyle, AA portion
>     Sunday afternoon.  Here is my reasoning.
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>     1)  Many contests we attend don't fly all 6 rounds as it is(this
>     really upsets me even though I have driven a distance.  Stay till
>     3 and finish the whole thing is my idea, but many differ.)
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>     2)  To add AA would only either extend the time people were there
>     and still not finishing the pattern contests, or end up loosing
>     more pattern contest for something new and different.
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