<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Chucky</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When you contest attendance number equals
mine, then you will be allowed to speak. Of course you will be at Lubbock
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<br><font size=2 color=#000080 face="Arial">Gray, first you have to show
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Its not the money, its the pressure. Anyone can come up with the cash for
the plane, but the pressure of keeping up with what is competitive is too
much for some. For example, to keep in vogue, I may show up to the NATS
with my new Easter egg colored plane, only to find out I am three years
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>From time to time I hear folks suggesting the reason the number of contestants
is down is due to the high cost of pattern planes and support equipment.
Well I don't believe that is the reason. This weekend I went
to a relatively local IMAC contest in Camarillo California and there were
somthing like 61 preregistered and 56 actually flying. I'd guess
80% of the planes were 40% scale, meaning they had $1500 engines and $3000
airframes and $1500 worth of servos. Then you've got the motor homes
and trucks and trailers to transport them. I still say the highest
cost of flying is the driving to and from the field and that is probably
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So what is the reason for the drop in attendance and the drop in the number
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