I have recently received a very offensive e-mail from Bob Violett asserting that my contributions to the current copy of RCJI are anti BVM and take cheap shots at him intended to damage his business. It also stated that I deliberately created the situation where non delivery of a new Stab for my F4 eliminated my individual entry to the WJM. Nothing could be further from the truth. and the mistake at the BVM factory wasted a great deal of my time and money , not least a wasted trip from London to Sydney. As the current owner of five BVM models, an F4, two BobCats, an F86 and F16 I cannot understand what possible motive I could have for wanting to see BVM damaged.


None of the people we have consulted in the UK (including several at yesterday's jet meeting at Odiham near London) who have read the magazine can see any basis whatsoever for this comment and a letter to BV contained a reply merely that he was too busy with his Kingcat to engage in banter!

I am a totally independant, freelance writer for RCJI ( I am not an employee or under any fom of contract) and the editorial team is free to accept or reject my copy as they think fit. It has always been my absolute principle that what I write is scrupulously honest, fair and unbiased, except that I am biased towards quality products and the promotion of the hobby which I think is in everyone's interest but it is important to me that no one can possibly find what I write to be in any way objectionable.

However, it may just be possible that US readers can interpret what I wrote in a different way to the way it reads in the UK.

Can anyone who has actually read my contributions to the current magazine, (Gas Flow, WJM report and Vigilante review) or indeed ANY other of my contributions over the last ten years, suggest why I have been accused by BV of taking cheap shots at his comany intended to damage his business or being , in any way, anti BVM ?

Regards,
David Gladwin