Re: Re: Free Flight themed issue of Model Aviation

From: Norm Furutani <tilka89_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:52:14 -0700 (PDT)

Why not write articles for both entry level models and all-out competition planes? I think Clarence Mather's original A-6 was a hit as was the Hobby Shopper EZB. The problem with the HS EZB was that it was published in INAV, a very limited audience. How about updating the article and submitting it to MA?

The magazine article that did it for me was Joe Bilgri's "Ditto", "B" mike stick, published in three installments. I can still remember my Mom's astonishment when she found me scrubbing the bathtub so I could pour microfilm.

I think we under estimate the potential interest in our segment of the hobby generated by magazines like Model Aviation. For example, just having a FF contest date published in the MA contest calendar has resulted in non FF'ers showing up at Lost Hills or Tustin. I know that many in my local FF clubs started in RC, got tired of boring holes in the sky, and are now FF'ers.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents. And again, thanks Don D. for all the work you did on the July, FF MA issue!

- Norm Furutani


--- On Mon, 6/25/12, themaxout_at_aol.com <themaxout_at_aol.com> wrote:

From: themaxout_at_aol.com <themaxout_at_aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Free Flight themed issue of Model Aviation
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 25, 2012, 5:14 PM
















 



  


    
      
      
      


Don, I agree wholeheartedly.
 
The "Hobby Shopper" article put it in perspective for me.  Whatever
theme or model is decided it should "break the fear" of indoor.  Face it,
indoor is both fascinating and daunting,  It is competing with all
those other things that are on the table and it does have to be achievable and
show the prospect some reasonable success.  A newbie has to feel "hey!..I
can do that!"
 
Rick Pangell
Editor of "The Max-Out" Newsletter of
The
Magnificent Mountain Men FF Club of Colorado
 

In a message dated 6/25/2012 5:55:14 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
don_at_slusarczyk.com writes:
I think
  any article in MA should be an existing indoor AMA event or
other indoor
  duration event not a fun fly event or similar. There have
been way too
  many rubber powered fun flyers articles made from left over
balsa and
  plastic props scraps published in MA and Flying Models
magazine over the
  years. Look at the other published articles for other
modeling
  disciplines. They are not all construction articles on beginner
models.
  Sometimes they are, but many times are also competitive models
in the
  event being highlighted and built in the article.  I don't want
to
  see a tissue paper EZB like thing that is really not indoor related
at all
  in an article. How about instead show a person how a F1D is built
or a
  Manhattan Cabin or Biplane pennyplane is built, or F1M, or F1L? 
Show
  people what we really fly and let them be attracted to what we
really do
  instead of fabricating some simplified indoor model which only
has the
  fact it is flown inside as a commonality to a real indoor model.
I think
  the simple indoor model approach among fellow modelers sells
indoor short
  of what indoor actually is and may actually turn people
away who may think
  that all indoor is just some tissue covered sticks
because that is all
  they ever see in the model magazines.

Don
  S








  
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