After all this today, I want to thank Jim Deck and his student Richard, Jim taught him the realities of RC soaring, and really any activity that takes practice, patience, and some effort. I think all of us are very cognizant of helping students and folks who walk out on our flying fields to watch what is going on. It happened for me in 1975, and, all of us that are here remember the moment.
I find it kind of interesting that some quantify building with balsa and spruce as the only real way to get folks to not be scared of the hobby/sport. Well, I do not believe that, and I think that many are drawn by the many detailed aspects of RC Soaring from the interaction with nature to the wide variety of materials we use to make the ships out of. In addition, I think that is crappolla that guys feel that you should not be flying what you enjoy to fly in the somewhat nieve thought that moldie's, ARF's, and bought ships will run off new interest in soaring. Anyone that has been in this dance long enough has built, designed or both a ship and built many kits, so what does only flying those choices elevate you to some higher than high status. I will give anyone credit for doing the work, but on my schedule now, and many others too, I just do not have the time to build what I use to. We all want to have new blood, and thanks to guys like Jim Deck and the late Mike Remus, and many others not named here, more folks will continue to enter the sport. Marc RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
