Re: Bostonians and No-Cals

From: Bob Clemens <rclemens2_at_rochester.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:56:17 -0400

Don said to me, “So if you can't compete with the rest then delete the event? Interesting thinking.”

I’m pleased you found it “interesting.” Too bad your sarcastic remark is dead wrong. I’ve been in this hobby for a good many years and have never thought about deleting any event because I can’t “compete with the rest.” As far as “competing with the rest” is concerned, I’ve been doing just that- with moderate success- for many more years than you, so be careful of your phrasing, my friend. I don’t particularly appreciate your jumping to such an absurd conclusion. I mentioned dropping the event partly with tongue in cheek and also because it does appear that the popularity of indoor No-Cal is possibly waning. But I have no problem if you and the (about) ten other guys who can (or want to) build very light models want to keep on battling it out indoors.

The absurdity and misinformation continues: “I have seen indoor golden age models do 4+ minutes at the Buffalo Bills field house by a well know Canadian FAC modeler in a flyoff, so should that event be banned from indoor as well? How about indoor dime scale models that fly 3+ minutes. Do you propose min weights on indoor peanut scale, dimes scale etc.? How about banning 3+ minute indoor Phantom Flashes? So if you want to ban the event why not just ban all FAC events for indoor and add more time for indoor duration events.”

Whoa! Can we slow down a bit here? That’s a lot of “bans,” a word I’ve never considered using regarding model airplane events, including the ones you mentioned. In any case,“ban” (your choice of words, not mine) is a bit severe, don’t you think?

It was interesting to see you invoke the name of the late, great Jack McGillivray. What does he have to do with a discussion of suggested changes in the No-Cal rules? And what “double standard” are you talking about?

Bob Clemens
Received on Sun Jun 10 2012 - 11:58:00 CEST