Re: Re: Free Flight themed issue of Model Aviation

From: <themaxout_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:09:41 -0400 (EDT)

I can appreciate that...the wonderment of any form of free flight, indoor
or out, is what lights your rocket. I had never been exposed to indoor
except thru what I saw on the cover of a Model Airplane News some 50 years
ago. I just did not know where to go from there. The activity was dominated
by FF gas, and those guys were all around. My time and money wasn't
competing with much else except for Little League Baseball. Today, it's a whole
lot easier to not build an indoor model, or any other model for that matter.
 
The activity has to be readily available too. Local indoor flying clubs
have to be discovered or located. My experience with S/O and TSA says that
the kids kind of say "Gee, that was fun.." but encouraging them to be an
indoor flyer...well, we are lucky to have a local activity to guide them to.
 
Perhaps in each article the link to the NFFS clubs or the indoor web sites
is in order. We have a young fellow that found us through our web
advertising and is now sold on FF. We, as a club of course, did everything we
could to help him out and find all those "wonderment's." He's hooked on
Indoor and Outdoor, but our club has been pretty progressive in nurturing him
too.
 
In the Digest we are preaching to the choir. How does one get the word
out to the masses? That's the rub.
 
Too many times we say "here's some stuff" and never follow up with the
youth of today, or others for that matter. It's a lot of work and the returns
aren't that great. The Don DeLoach's of the world are more of what is
needed, right Don?
 
Rick Pangell
Editor of "The Max-Out" Newsletter of
The Magnificent Mountain Men FF Club of Colorado

 
In a message dated 6/25/2012 7:50:17 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
f1diddler_at_yahoo.com writes:



--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, themaxout_at_... wrote:


But face it...a newcomer isn't just deciding "Oh, I want to be an indoor
flyer!".>>


But that's how I did it, as a beginner. Not from an magazine
article--those were only attractive after I saw the real thing fly, in real time.
Otherwise, one can only imagine how indoor models fly, and probably
inaccurately.
Mark B




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