<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/31/03 8:11:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, rcbatics@earthlink.net writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">So, let's see, these figures mean that a pool of around 25 fliers lost 6 model airplanes in one season of contest flying?!? Boy, it's a good thing they don't <U>practice</U> together as well.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#800000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Mike Nauman</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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Better read it again, it says 4 years and a mid air does not, always result in loss of the airplane/airplanes, had three mid airs and only one loss. I'm not saying they are a good thing, but they happen and not just a contests, in fact the three I've had were all in practice and only one involved another aerobatic plane. If you fly a lot and fly with anyone else in the air it can happen. All this theory about how to avoid them is pretty meaningless, most pilots don't fly so well that they can insure that they can be in or out at all times and even if they do the other guy probably can't. It's the luck of the draw guys and short of flying alone you can't hide. Fortunately no one dies!!<BR>
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Now go fly and have fun and try not to have a mid air and it you must don't have one with me!!<BR>
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