At one time the policy at MA was to publish six CL articles a year. I think if you do a recent count the number is down some.
I have not done the count as I do not keep MA back issues, but with the two articles in the recent issue, several recent UC construction articles, and more than one UC event report, I think it has probably increased above the 6 you quote..
The regular FF and CL columns are much less frequent than they used to be.
Since they have such a very small number of participants and AMA members, they should be. So are some of the RC columns that have many more participants.
Although most know Bob Hunt as a World Champion CL stunt flier, he is quite knowledgeable and experienced in a wide range of model aviation venues.
Namely? And lets not count tether-plane flying. He certainly knows little about giant RC scale, IMAC, IMAA, RC Pattern, RC Combat - all of which are orders of magnitude larger than UC. I also doubt he has even sport flown RC very much.
How about having Bob Aberle take over - he is much broader in background, much more well published, and probably knows the noncompetitor better, in all areas.
At least the two CL reviews were of ARF's
, and thus fit nicely into the "new" MA.
And perhaps fits nicely into the direction that UC is going - a flying rather than a builders sport!
If Model Aviation is to serve all of model aviation, then the microspecialties will get either none at all or more than their fair share. As a microspecialist I prefer the latter.
Of course, you are an avid UC flier, I can undersand your position. However, I'd like to see the majority of members get their fair share of coverage since they are funding AMA and MA. I'd like to see the microspecialities get their fair share and no more. Most of them have their own publications which provide a lot more meaningful information than the short MA columns.
I think AMA is finally moving away from the competators and the microspecialities - maybe Hunt will have to be dragged kicking and screaming!
If MA favored RC completely and no UC you would be singing a different tune!
Paul