Re: Free Flight themed issue of Model Aviation

From: Murph <jb_murphy_at_msn.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:44:23 -0000

Fellows, if you want to ensure that the indoor phase of free flight becomes a very small part of the free flight community, keep calling your selves "indoorests". Take a hard look at Rick Pangell's posting as it has the frame work of how to bring modelers into the world of indoor flying.

Those of you who were modelers in 1960 might recall the four part series of articles by Joe Bilgri on building and flying indoor that ran in Model Airplane News. After this series there was a major increase in indoor activity around the country.

Sitting at your key board and launching flames at Model Aviation and NFFS will do nothing but ensure that indoor does not grow.

That 1975 article, why not dust it off and submit it to MA?

Many free flight modelers,or should I say "free flightest", fly both outdoor and indoor models. Think of ways to bring the fun of indoor free flight to those folks who fly Mulvihill, Moffett, P-30, and SAM rubber. They know a lot about rubber and model trimming.

Jerry Murphy
AMA 917

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, themaxout@... wrote:
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> I see a challenge out there. Some article that can be put in to MA and
> not so impressive that it scares away the potential indoor modeler. My
> "first" serious indoor plane was the "Hobby Shopper" pushed to me by Tim
> Goldstein of A2Z. He challenged me and I still fly it...of course it qualifies
> more for a F1L than a competitive EZB now...all the glue and repairs. I
> documented it in a series of articles in the M"Max-Out" when I was building it.
> The target as the first "big time" indoor event in Colorado Springs
> sponsored by the MMM Club and Don DeLoach.
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> But face it...a newcomer isn't just deciding "Oh, I want to be an indoor
> flyer!"
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> A lot of current indoor flyers say that building a lightweight model is a
> piece of cake, but you target should be the person who wants to try but does
> not want to be faced with the daunting challenge of starting at the top.
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> Success doesn't necessarily mean beating John Kagan or Brett Sanborn. The
> guy you want to recruit is the guy who sees Indoor in an article and is
> enticed, but currently flies AMA FF or maybe CL or hopefully...the disgruntled
> RC guy.
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> Rick Pangell
> Editor of "The Max-Out" Newsletter of
> The Magnificent Mountain Men FF Club of Colorado
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> In a message dated 6/25/2012 5:20:32 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> 82.jake_at_... writes:
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> Maybe it's time for an update. The basic idea would be to build a
> pennyplane from hobby shop materials with simple tools and offer online assistance
> through Hippocket or this Yahoo list. The goal would be lower the barrier
> to entry as far as possible.
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Tom <_tjsova_at_..._
> (mailto:tjsova_at_...) > wrote:
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> I had a Pennyplane construction article published in the March 1975 issue
> of American Aircraft Modeler which at the time was the AMA magazine. It was
> written for a high school English assignment.
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> Tom Sova
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:41 PM, Jake Palmer <_82.jake_at_..._
> (mailto:82.jake_at_...) > wrote:
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> Has MA ever printed a comprehensive build article for something like LPP?
> That seems like a good place to start if the goal is to get people
> interested. Perhaps a Hobby Shopper LPP? It could also include a link to this
> list so people would have a resource for questions.
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Chuck Slusarczyk
> <_chucks2000_at_..._ (mailto:chucks2000@...) > wrote:
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> Hey Mark
> I e- mailed Jay Smith at MA today and he wants me to do an Indoor
> article ...so any old photos etc you can send me at
> _chucks2000_at_..._ (mailto:chucks2000@...) Here's a
> chance for us Indoorist to show our stuff...;-)
> see ya
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> Chuck s
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: _Mark F1diddler_ (mailto:f1diddler_at_...)
> To: _Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com)
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> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:00 PM
> Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Free Flight themed issue of Model
> Aviation
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> >> I agree whole heartily with Don .If not for John's column Indoor would
> have been totally absent from a Free Flight edition of MA
> > Maybe it's time to Resurrect NIFFS since Outdoor FF seems to think we
> don't exist .Would be like a feature on U- Control and omitting Speed. events
> or combat.Nuff said.>>>
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> Has anyone here, within the last decade, presented Model Aviation with
> good indoor content and been refused?
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