Re: The Problems with Indoor FF

From: John Kagan <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:32:31 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Barker" <john.barker783@...> wrote:
>
> … Our generation
> is dying off and our hobby of Free Flight, Indoor and Outdoor, is dying with
> us.

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen" <b.gowen@...> wrote:
>
> …I don't think we need to throw in the towel and say that we are the end of the line for FF in general or indoor FF in particular.

There is truth in both of these.

There will never be a Yankees stadium crowd cheering Jim Richmond's EZB landing after a record flight. Efforts toward that kind of goal are folly, and would be better spent doing something more realistic and beneficial to us. Our future "steady-state" numbers will probably be smaller than during the aeronautics heyday, and it would be good to accept that.

On the other hand, Indoor FF ain't dying off just yet. First it was going to be Romash, Buxton, and me as the lone participants at the 2060 USIC – me towing Romash and his dialysis machine across the floor with my Hoveround, Buxton strapped to a gurney except for his throwing arm. Then Sanborn and Schaefer came along. So they are going to be the lone participants at the 2075 USIC. Except now we've got Justin Young and Tim Chang. And Parker and Cutis. Etc.

Tiny numbers? Sure. But that's the point of this "grow the population" brainstorming. We don't need to Shanghai people to "save our hobby". We just need to expose the people who would be doing this anyway if they knew about it, so it will be more fun. And, more importantly, so they can get the door when we try to wheelchair into the minidome.
Received on Fri Jun 05 2009 - 12:32:58 CEST