ORIGINAL: STLPilot
Park fliers are, as individuals, just one of the big fads, although a fair amount will stay for many years.
I just love when an ol timer thinks things are going to go back to the way it used to be, "back in my day".
Parkflyers going away? HA! Electrics going away? HA! Yeah people want to go back to paying $15 a gallon of fuel when the quality of the batteries goes up and the price goes down.
Parkflyers are going NOWHERE Hoss. Right now it's the dominant market and it will only grow. Like I said, I'll personally make sure of that little known fact.
Perhaps STL, you should maybe get one of those grade school kids to give you a refresher in basic Reading Comprehension so that you don't stay so confused.
In no way did I say that park fliers will go away. I said they are a fad. That is because so many are being imported and sold, but that will pass.
I have many times said in these forums that electrics and turbines are the future, yet I will not live to see the total elimination of gas burners or glow plugs. I will always have them.
Model aviation has always enjoyed fads. First there was rubber powered, then the gas ignition came. There was a change in model aviation, but all could not afford the gassers so rubber remained and it is still here.
Then came RC and CL. Not all could afford or understand Dr. Good's new RC thing, so it was slow developing, however CL caught on big time. Every school yard became a flying field. Sound familiar???
However Rubber and Free Flight endured and CL became KING. RC kept moving along.
In about 1947 the glow plug arrived thanks to one Mr. Ray Arden. Every engine manufacturer and some new mfgers. entered the field with the 1/2A engines. The
FAD erupted and all were flying 1/2A CL in their back yards or streets. Hundreds of thousands were sold along with 1/2 A kits being 100 times predominant over others. AMA was about 10,000 strong.
Big CL models, rubber, FF, and even RC endured.
About mid 1950 RC came on strong and increased rapidly throughout the years.
Rubber, FF, CL, 1/2A all remain and continue. RC is here to stay.
Back in the 70s electrics started showing up. In RC Big Bird gassers started coming on. In the '80s if you were not a Big Bird person you were nothing. Every thing else survived and continues on.
So STL, all things come and go yet some will always linger on.
Electrics will at sometime in the near future be the common model airplane powerplant just as glow plug engines are and have been for SIXTY years.
Now there is one big difference between electric as the common power plant and the individual known as a park flier! 
Parkflyers are going NOWHERE Hoss. Right now it's the dominant market and it will only grow. Like I said, I'll personally make sure of that little known fact.
STL look at that quote above. YOU YOURSELF just stated that Parkfliers are going
nowhere. [8D] Perhaps your kids could also explain to you a bit in how meanings change with improper punctuation. I know from the conversations what you mean, but you could be quoted as saying exactly opposite to what you mean![>:]
In another thread you state that you are no longer in the commercial model business, just in your kid school thing. How will you make sure that electric remains the dominent market if you are not in that business? We both know it will do so in time, but since YOU claim to ensure such, are you lying in the other thread? If so are you lying about the other question you said NO to? You should be in politics, man, you can do 180s better and a lot faster than most of those liberal congressmen.