Gahh!

I'm flying his 40 inch cub and absolutly loving it, meanwhile slowly building a second one with my girlfriend (we bought two at the same time). The thing is a 'gem' as another poster put it once. Just last night I was talking to my dad saying 'hey this guy makes killer kits, I think I want a Gee Bee'. Noticing all these modellers learning CAD even motivated me to get access to enough CAD to start doing (primitive, lemme tell ya) modelling.

I even printed out the 40 inch cub page and handed it out to the dudes at the field who saw it, hoping I'd have some company. The people I fly with seem to have been motivated by seeing my 'handbuilt huh?' kits and have purchased various kits and started building. But I guess it wasn't a page kit.

Ugh, what else can we do really though? Xbox doesn't require assembly, nor does it require understanding of programming languages. Where did the intelligent youth go?

Maybe if we had an 'association of kit developers' that charge yearly dues that buy and maintain a couple nice laser cutting setups. Perhaps members could pay a percentage of their revenue back to the association (figure what, 5%, 10%, maybe a max per kit?). This could make the most popular players pay the most, the weakest only pay their dues and keep working. Is this something we should talk to the AMA (or the CAA in Canada?) about? It almost seems like it falls under their umbrella, or at least close enough that could be done.

Its a bit discouraging, but there must be a solution.

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