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Personally, I don't like the fact that when they review aircraft, there are rarely any "Cons" listed. I know I read a review of a particular aircraft from a reputable company, and purchased it based on that review. Well I found plenty of "cons" that I had to fix to get it together (ARF). That's why I like building, almost all of the "cons" in the final product are of my own doing, and that's how I learn. I know they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them (free planes to test, that is), but come on, how do we expect improvements in the products if they are always perfect?
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The hobby has been taken over by "Check builders" They build with there check book and become "Experts" in there mind. True builders are becoming few and far between, and yes there is no talent in the mag's You look close at some of the workmanship by these so called builders and you would think Ray Charles is still building ! MAN WAS GOOD BUT NOW THEY WENT THE WAY OF THE QUADS. THERE ARE QUAD SPECIFIC PUBLICATIONS YET WE SEE THEM PALUTEING ONCE GOOD MAGAZINES. D o they put model airplane articals in the Quad mag's ????????????????????????????????????????????????? THERE IS NOT A DECENT PUBLICATION ANYMORE.
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Yes, I would love to see a mag dedicated to "Fixed Wing Flight"............sounds like a good name right there, don't it?. One more thing, I have to say that I had the same thoughts regarding the OM's post on that article for coordinated vs. "yank-n-bank".....however I have to admit to be a Y&B pilot most of the time :-) . But I know this is a fairly debated issue at our field, I can't imagine that the "pro's" are all flying rudderless.
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Tailskid , my 38 year old Aquila flies at leat once a week and has outlived two winches , who knows how many radio systems and been
recovered at least three times .
i only hope the cover girl has aged as beautifully .
recovered at least three times .
i only hope the cover girl has aged as beautifully .
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Personally. I think the AMA should make "Model Aviation" an option when we pay our dues. Everything that's needed ( Contest Calender) is available on the website. The rest of it is advertising.
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I read your post. The problem you wrote about a totally different issue. It's not Blacks & Whites or even Hispanics. it's the education system. If you think it's so great. How come the engineering schools in this country are closing. How come young hobbiest only fly ARF's, nobody builds. If we did that 50 years ago, where would we be today? There are engineers out there today that are very good, it the percentage that has gotten smaller. Japan already has very good engineers, we taught them, in the 50's & 60's. Now China , India, are now getting engineers, that can design and build, and not just do paperwork design. This is what I was talking about, not what you posted. I just stated when it started and the way. BTW, I don't know what you done in your carrier. I have 2 patent in my name as the designer. I don't own them.The company I worked for does. I did part of the design of transmitter modulator of the AN-SPS-67 Radar. Still used today, I also did the redesign of the modulator on the B-52 search Radar. I have done a lot more, but I really don't need to write about it on here. Maybe you really need to give the apology. What I said had nothing to do with what you wrote about.
You bring up your patents which is fine. You may have been a smart guy once. It's the common sense piece that appears to be missing
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Well I received mine in the mail today and of course what is on the front cover, a quad, and on the back cover and just about every other page in the mag. I turn on NBC evening news and whats in the opening headlines, Drones ground firefighting planes from doing their job in California. Then start to read the AMA/FAA debate and how the FAA needs to back off on Model airplanes yet all they want to talk about and advertise are the same item that is prompting the FAA to impose their will. Awesome!!
From now on it will go where the Potter Barn crap goes. Next year I will request it not be sent and the AMA can save on postage.
From now on it will go where the Potter Barn crap goes. Next year I will request it not be sent and the AMA can save on postage.
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I am about your age then. The racial stuff is very obvious in your post. If you go back and read the post a few days from now, I'd bet you would wish you wrote something different, better, and get your message across without putting any one down. Sorry guy, your stuff just doesn't belong.
You bring up your patents which is fine. You may have been a smart guy once. It's the common sense piece that appears to be missing
You bring up your patents which is fine. You may have been a smart guy once. It's the common sense piece that appears to be missing
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I'm sorry, you are so wrong, Just because I use 3 words, that makes it racial? BS. What I said was totally about the education system in this country, and how it's changed. If you think what I said racial, then your the one that's racial. One of my best friends is black, and he's a modeler. You sound more like a person that like to twists the truth. You tell me exactly what I said about being racial. I wrote only about education. And if you think our education system is good today, you must be part of it. Kids today have to use a calculator to do simple math. If the battery wears out there out of luck.
"Instead of the young black population being educated to the level of the whites, it was less expensive bring the whites down to the level of the blacks."
...level of whites.....down to the level of blacks...... Read that a few times, you can't see an issue with that? And then the requisite "I'm not a racist because one of by my best friends is black".
MA is a magazine that caters to the widest RC model population possible, so it's going to be somewhat generic in nature. It tries to provide everything for everyone. Like a Target or Cracker Barrel...some people will love it, others want more selection. So far it's the only magazine I see that has a little something for everyone, including ads (which is how the magazine is funded in part). Perhaps there are mags out there for free flight only, or slope soaring only, or giant scale, but I'm not aware of them. Within that subset, I'm sure there are readers that are complaining about those magazine as well.
You can opt out of getting the magazine if you want. Also, fwiw, the magazine is a profit center for the AMA and brings IN revenue. Is it lining someone's pocket...lol I doubt it. No more than our dues are, or any other revenue the AMA generates. I doubt people are there because of the crazy high salaries and perks. It is what it is. Lots of good suggestion on what to do with the mag though, our club buys annual subscrptions for all the town libraries, as well as middle and high school libraries.
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Like I said, My post was about " Education" not racism. I also said nothing about salaries and the people working there. There is nothing wrong with advertising in MA either, but the article's today are totally different than they were 25 years ago. Its more advertising about a product, rather on how to do something. Let me ask you something. What do you know about the By-Laws written for the AMA organization? There very explanatory from the first day they were written. I agree with you, nobody there is getting wealthy, not yet anyway.
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Maybe a nice quilting forum would appease your delicate sensitivities ?
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If you haven't the moxie to challenge patently racist statements like what was posted , maybe it's you who are not suited to internet discussion ? When someone posts an attack such as that , if no one has the courage to stand up for what's right , the racist statement appears to be condoned by all by the silence of the participants . And sorry pal , I DO NOT condone what was said , and will reserve MY RIGHT to call out ANY bad behavior in any thread I see . Your piddling twaddle about "thread purity" aside , most threads DO drift somewhat , but a REAL MAN speaks up when that drift involves something straight out of a KKK pamphlet !!!!!
Maybe a nice quilting forum would appease your delicate sensitivities ?
Maybe a nice quilting forum would appease your delicate sensitivities ?
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This will be my last post concerning this issue. I refuse to have a battle of whits with an unarmed person. Because I used the word " Black " I am a racist. I said nothing about racism, only a couple of other's on here did. My issue was education, and it's not an opinion, its real history. But there are some on here that can probably could take the " Holy Bible" and just use the words in it and rewrite it to a porn novel. If you think I insulted you in a manor of racism, I'm sorry, I apologize . My opinions were on education. Now we see what education has done today, just in this thread.
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Honestly buddy , where is "the place for it" ? I ask this not as a taunt , I ask in all seriousness , why should something so ugly be ignored rather than called out in the very place it was posted ? This gent is putting forth the notion that the decline in model aircraft magazines is due to the dumbing down of all races to coincide with a supposed lack of intelligence in the black race . How could such a racist notion be left in print unchallenged ? The guy had the option to edit his post after I first called him out on it yesterday , but instead went on trying to convince me that I was seeing something in his post that he didn't mean . Well now in the light of a new day it seems others share my view that his post is not proper for the discussion . The right thing was to call out the post , hopefully the poster would see that his post wasn't welcome or relevant to the discussion at hand , and then he should have apologized for offending the board and deleted the toxic post . Someone posts racist garbage , and that's to be ignored ? And I am the big bad meanie for calling it out ? Sorry my friend , but I just don't see it that way .
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I was simply pointing out that RCU is not the place for it. Now, you can take that however you wish, but I am in this hobby for fun, not to see threads hi-jacked for someone to voice their political/racial/religious rants, there are thousands of places on the web for that already. I am not going to be baited into another extension of the previous discussion, but I will say that regardless of the position of either party, RCU is not where it should happen, and IMO, all comments that pertain to the topic of race should have been removed by a moderator, as I would like to see anything removed that discusses the "big 3" mentioned above, but I realize that they can not monitor every thread all the time. I know how I live my life, and I know what I stand for, I don't have to prove it or rant about to the thousands of "real men" that are online, as it seems everyone has a bigger-than-life persona when they can type in the comfort of their own home. And regardless of the position or thoughts of the initial post in question, you will not change anyone's position by some posts on a discussion thread. Now, you may call this passive on my part, but I will just let the moderators decide if it should be removed, no sense in arguing as it is just an exercise in frustration.
This is what I do to relax, and the friendships I have though this hobby cross many racial-religious & political boundaries, the topics are non-related IMO, and I will do what I can to keep them that way.
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This is what I do to relax, and the friendships I have though this hobby cross many racial-religious & political boundaries, the topics are non-related IMO, and I will do what I can to keep them that way.
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I was simply pointing out that RCU is not the place for it. Now, you can take that however you wish, but I am in this hobby for fun, not to see threads hi-jacked for someone to voice their political/racial/religious rants, there are thousands of places on the web for that already. I am not going to be baited into another extension of the previous discussion, but I will say that regardless of the position of either party, RCU is not where it should happen, and IMO, all comments that pertain to the topic of race should have been removed by a moderator, as I would like to see anything removed that discusses the "big 3" mentioned above, but I realize that they can not monitor every thread all the time. I know how I live my life, and I know what I stand for, I don't have to prove it or rant about to the thousands of "real men" that are online, as it seems everyone has a bigger-than-life persona when they can type in the comfort of their own home. And regardless of the position or thoughts of the initial post in question, you will not change anyone's position by some posts on a discussion thread. Now, you may call this passive on my part, but I will just let the moderators decide if it should be removed, no sense in arguing as it is just an exercise in frustration.
This is what I do to relax, and the friendships I have though this hobby cross many racial-religious & political boundaries, the topics are non-related IMO, and I will do what I can to keep them that way.
Dave
This is what I do to relax, and the friendships I have though this hobby cross many racial-religious & political boundaries, the topics are non-related IMO, and I will do what I can to keep them that way.
Dave
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