Re: Bob Brown's war on FAI competition

From: Nick Ray <lasray_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 23:27:55 -0500

The AMA's funding of the F1D team is currently below 50% of the cost of
attending the World Champs. I don't think many senior team members would
have a problem footing the bill themselves if push came to shove. The
bigger issue getting the FAI to recognize another group's legitimacy to
field a team.



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Don DeLoach <ddeloach_at_comcast.net> wrote:

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> Question: if AMA completely removes funding from a team still be formed
> and fund itself?
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> DD
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 1, 2014, at 7:33 PM, <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Just read with interest Bob Brown's latest salvo in his war on FAI
> competition in the most recent Model Aviation.
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> Despite his campaign promises to support competition in general, and FAI
> in particular, he as done the following:
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> - Cut FAI team funding
> - Initiated processes to eliminate teams that fall below increasingly
> challenging performance and participation levels
> - And now, is pressuring the FAI to "sunset" events "of little
> participation outside of Europe"
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> I wonder which classes he is talking about.
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Received on Sat Feb 01 2014 - 20:27:56 CET