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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eric, that is a brilliant idea. It will certainly
enhance the attractiveness of the sport to the participant.</FONT>----- Original
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Eric.Henderson@gartner.com
href="mailto:Eric.Henderson@gartner.com">Henderson,Eric</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 23, 2004 7:01
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Artistic Aerobatics and
future thinking</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=881155323-23012004></SPAN><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004><FONT face=Arial
size=2> I acknowledge, in advance, that this note is a lecture (so
you can hit delete now if you like), but we are prisoners of current thinking
and if I can get one mind to leap, it will be worth the
exposure.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004> </SPAN> <SPAN
class=881155323-23012004> The world is driven by many
factors. We make a lot of decisions based upon what has happened in
the past.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004><FONT face=Arial size=2>In
the days of sailing boats it took 3 months to cross the Atlantic. Even
though faster boats shortened the journey times, all you still had
to do to be successful was plan better and be more efficient. You only
needed to plan based upon the past.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then
along came steam and reduced the transit time to a few weeks. Still, all
you had to do was just become more efficient and perhaps a little bit more
responsive to your clients' desires.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=881155323-23012004>Now
we have Transatlantic jetliner travel that does the journey in a few hours. It
is still OK to be efficient but now the dimension of having
to become a lot more anticipative of customer needs is much more present.
"He who looks ahead begins to get ahead!"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004>Even more "Now", than
jet flight is the I</SPAN></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004>nternet. Information of
every imaginable kind now travels faster than I can type a word. Just
becoming efficient is now almost irrelevant. Planning and thinking in the
future will be what differentiates the winners from the also
rans.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=881155323-23012004>In
our part of the sport we were years behind with getting a
web-site up and running. We just kept doing what we always did as efficiently
as we could. (I think IMAC was a leader with their website and they
accordingly reaped a harvest). </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=881155323-23012004>In
the case of Artistic Aerobatics and the new FAI scale aerobatics class, they
are both really just a set of actions based upon what has been done
before by scale aerobatics. If we think in the terms of our future
needs then we can ignore what is "history" and begin looking at what is
needed to meet our future and be ready.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=881155323-23012004>We
are currently working on a new video. If we were looking at things from a
futuristic point of view we should at least be building a navigable DVD.
Why don't we add a pilot-nominated maneuver at the end of the fixed schedules
- just to shake it up a bit....</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004>I'll leave you hanging there because the next
part is yours...anticipate then suggest.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=881155323-23012004>Regards,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" BACK="#ffffff" PTSIZE="12"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><SPAN class=881155323-23012004><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Eric.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>