ORIGINAL: Jim Branaum
DavidR,
I am getting mightily tired of hearing how much smarter, safer, righter, and better you, Augiep38, Mongo, and the other jet jocks are. I grow weary of being told how rotten the rest of the modelers I play with are. I am sorry I have not been there to buy things from you and help you make your living for the last few years. Too bad your goals and mine don't seem to be the same, but that is life. I do not wish to provide you 'people' any more cheese to go with your constant whining about rules you and your customers don't even bother to follow! I am sick and tired of trying to find a middle ground only to have any suggestion shoved down my throat by some hyphenated people. In fewer words, I have had enough.
Congratulations on a job well done! I did not want to see turbines go away because I have enjoyed the show put on by many of my friends. However, your attitude and that of the others here who have decided to make this a personal crusade with their attacks rather than a discussion about serious safety issues has finally penetrated and helped me decide that I was in error. Today I think the turbine crowd represents the most arrogant bunch of well heeled self centered people I have ever had the displeasure to be associated with. I intend to share my thoughts with as many as I can to insure that the attitude and approach to safety and other modelers that has been shown here is well and widely known.
I will begin writing letters suggesting that we simply exclude turbines from the AMA, its events, and its coverages. If you guys are so safe, get your own insurance. You folks claim to have lots of enough money, so go buy and maintain your own airfields.
Jeez Jim---If I didn't know any better I would have thought that you wrote Dave Brown's February editorial......I think you finally snapped.
Jim....Why do you feel that there is a need to find middle ground when THERE ISN"T A PROBLEM???? Our jets are no less or no more dangerous than they were in their inception. Why all the sudden fuss now??? Why do guys like you think that jet jockies need to capitulate to the whims of the ignorant concerning speed??? Just so you can feel warm and fuzzy inside, claiming to have made a perceived difference in safety??? How many times do we have to drill it into your heads that VERY few are even going fast??? What about our safety record??? I see you have turned the blind eye toward that issue....
Why do you perceive standing up for what we believe in as being arrogant??? Just what we need---Guys like you that don't have the faintest clue concerning jets, lobbying other clueless individuals to kill jet flying. Where will you place your conscience when you spread your lies concerning how unsafe jet jockies are----If anything, may I remind you that God is watching!?!?!?!?
With that last post I'm glad that I was finally made aware of your true colors...Don't even bother to reply as you have just flushed your own credibility down the toilet.
Kevin