G, Don't forget I said I would be willing to pay more if I could make out the pictures. It is indeed a great newsletter (it used to be a magazine) I just do not want to see it get any worse print quality wise. Believe me, I think very highly of the writers and Judy and Jerry. I haven't heard anyone saying it isn't a great source of information. T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is this is a veiled suggestion that Olympic athletes perform better? Is this > a premise that their performance is superior because they don't receive > payment? If that's your conclusion, you haven't done your research. >> > Was this an offer to write? Or just another typical RCSE "when everything is > done and said, more will be said than done?" > > Do this: > Go back through your years of magazines and look at the 'paid-for' articles > and see if you can learn how to cut and bag a wing, or layup a fuselage, or > find out where you can even get the supplies or for that matter what supplies > to use!" > > If you want to look at pretty pictures get all the other magazines that Dave > and I (and all of the RCSD contributors) subscribe to. RCSD has had some of > our greatest pilots, designers and builders as its contributors. > > They "contribute", they offered the information that makes our sailplanes > what they are today, and becuase of RCSD we know who they are and what they > figured out. > > Chuck Anderson's Airfoil Program, Eric Sander's Compufoil came about becuase > of the information shared and the interest spurred in RCSD. > > We are all waiting for your contribution of information... RCSD contributors > aren't paid, but their information isn't compiled for free. Judy and Jerry > work pretty hard each month on the magazine. > > My travels allow me to pick the brains of those of us who have good things > for us to use, and to find out about neat stuff for the hobby and to fly see > or fly virtually every plane out there and to talk to those who build and > sell them. I have written for MAN and MA and RCM in the past and enjoyed it, > but I am a sailplaner, who likes to build, fly, think and talk sailplanes, > and RCSD is the one place dedicated to that kind of information...for $30 per > year. > > All that subscription money goes to pay for the huge 'after TNT BBQ" by the > way, at Judy and Jerry's house :-) > > Just remember, when you want to know something about sailplanes, they guy in > your club (or on RCSE) that you go to ask....subscribes and reads RCSD :-) > > A simple way to get rid of that source of Sailplane information is to 'not' > subscribe, then the only source of detailed information will be what the > advertisers 'pay' columnists to write. > > Coming up in my column, a review of the amazing Stratos, Patton's New Epp > Spitfire, Horizon's 2m ARF Aspire, and new 'flexible' super glue (no not the > black stuff, this is from a supplier you haven't (and wouldn't have) heard of. > Heck by then its off to California for the Pre-Visalia Slope Adventure.... > > You can subscribe to RCSD by contacting Judy, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the interesting comments! > Gordy > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and >"unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T&G 32 Mount View Dr. Afton, VA 22920 540 943-3356 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
