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OK, but how many of those park flyer drivers are members of the AMA? Isn't
the magazine supposed to be for AMA members?
<p>Regards, &c...Wes
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<p>Richard Hallett wrote:
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is sad but simple marketing. I can't buy what I used to buy at Wal-Mart
because there were not enough people like me buying that object</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Park
flyers presently probably outnumber pattern in the order of 1000+ to 1.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>You
have x number of pages. Who gets them?</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>We
are lucky to see an article every second month on the basis of numbers
we have more pages per plane than we deserve.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Rick</font></font>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:kerlock@attbi.com" title="kerlock@attbi.com">Mike Hester</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" title="discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:28
PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc</div>
<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>HAHAHAHA</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Damn
Gray I'm about to fall over!!!!</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I
find it sick that MA is cutting the pattern column to bi monthly because
*ahem* "nobody is interested". Well DUH!!! 100 pages of nothing but park
fliers and junk ARFs and useless reviews of said junk. Please.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>When's
the last time you saw a pattern plane on the cover of MA? I'm thinking....I
honestly can't remember. I bet half the people see that Andy jesky ad and
say "whut kinda plane izzat? Does it 3 dee? Don't luk like no edge..."</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I
also find it amusing that in the latest MA, they are talking about an online
magazie and they are going to push guess what? The new exhilirating rage
of R/C....PARK FLIERS!!! Gosh, I just can't contain myself. I mean, they're
ok, they're cute, nothing against them, but they are cutting pattern out
of the picture and replacing it with a serious push towards PARK FLIERS????
Does this mean the AMA is sick of trying to help us keep fields and wants
everyone to just start flying in the back yard????</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>And
here I thought the AMA pres was an ex-pattern pilot, and a pretty darned
good one in his day. Did someone drop something on his head? Has Dave Brown
gone completely insane?</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Ok
that was my rant for the year. Mild, but necessary.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>-Mike
Hester</font></font>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:gfowler@raytheon.com" title="gfowler@raytheon.com">Gray
E Fowler</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org" title="discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:24
AM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> RE: Weight Limit-really marketing/popularity/etc</div>
<p><br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Like Buddy mentioned its the
magazines, not some concerted effort by IMAC to market sportsman. I do
not believe I have ever seen anything from IMAC, but every model mag has
either a scale warbird OR a scale .40 IMAC plane on the cover. Real IMAC
planes are ONLY shown on covers of anything in the hover position, and
we all know how important that is(speaking of that , perhaps someone should
mention to the self proclaimed #1 pattern supply place that perhaps a new
photo would be in order to appease us-my personal choice would be of an
Aries).</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Perhaps a Pattern marketing effort
could help, but "IMAC style" became popular because the magazines are all
in a vicious butt sniffing mode to get out the latest reveiw of the NEW
60 sized IMAC type ARF-gotta be an ARF or no one will buy it right? Why
this frenzy I have no idea, but it is not IMAC marketing (unless there
is some serious under the table stuff-but I honestly think if anyone is
paying money its gotta be the Chinese).</font></font>
<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>PS-what the RC world really needs
the mags to do is give us one more review on the NEW .40 P-51 ARF, complete
with genuine imitation exhaust stacks for more realistic runway fly-bys.
Report on how the first take -off was...did it pull right and require left
rudder-I gotta know.....</font></font>
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<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Just an opinion</font></font>
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<p><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Gray Fowler</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Principal Chemical Engineer</font></font>
<br><font face="sans-serif"><font size=-1>Composites Engineering</font></font></blockquote>
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