<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hey I watched that show a couple times and get bored to tears with the "ARFiness" of it, BUT no doubt it beats what our AMA is doing to promote the RC sport, hands down. <BR>
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If you are in tight with him, maybe you can plant the bug to do a PATTERN/IMAC with JETS and HELIs SPECIAL. That would represent what is possible in the RC world and not just the schoolyard thingies.<BR>
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Date:10/14/2003 1:43:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:Eric.Henderson@gartner.com">Eric.Henderson@gartner.com</A><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">With you on this one Glen. There is also much, much more out there to distract. I have seven kids and can see the other distractions that get to the entry level pool as well. I remember just living for the moment when my Dad would finish my Jetex hand launch and we would go flying.. My son's Tai-Ji 40 is six months old and unflown...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I chatted with Chianelli (DIY RC show) at the Vision show. What he is doing for RC is outstanding. All SIG's could take a leaf out of his book on promoting their sport. The NSRCA, from my experience, is focussed on competition and internal regulation. I was unable, in my time at the wheel, to get beyond process and politics and get around to any form of breakthrough promotion activity. It was either the natural resistance to change or just simply no cash to invest in the process. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Reaching into schools, libraries, colleges, allocated cable-hours available to towns with no material, etc., should be the highest item in the agenda of a society that goals itself on promotion of the sport. (This all applies to the AMA as well). Most societies become locked into rules and regulations for those already in the sport and cannot get their arms around breakthrough ideas.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Regards,</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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