Rules don't grow sports!

[Pete Cosky]

We can only hope you do get the 12 back. It wold be a step in the right direction.
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  Ref. "some of the major publications - like Model Aviation - pattern used to get more coverage - but it has dropped (probably proportionate to the reduction in our numbers)".  

      In actual fact what happened was that about two years ago they took the demographics from the little "what are you interested in" boxes that we fill in on the AMA membership application forms and determined the popularity of all of the columns that way. Then they reduced all of the columns to a maximum of 6 per year including a Nationals. Some categories get less than six, BTW.

      Since then Rob Kurek, the guy in charge of Model Aviation, called me and also sent me a very exciting survey results document. Model Aviation ran a professional reader survey and guess what? the Pattern column was number two to Scale. Scale was number one. Even more encouraging was that in some categories the pattern column took the lead.

  I don't know if I will ever get my 12 columns a year back, but it made me feel it was all worthwhile.

      The modeling community still looks to pattern as a technology leader and really enjoys what we all achieve. Please forgive me for tooting my own horn but good news is hard to find these days and this was good!

  Regards,

  Eric.
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