Dear Friends,If a pylon racer crashes in Muncie and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Years ago, when the QM rules were being written, I wrote a rather long letter to the powers pleading for things that would make the event a little more user friendly. No one really believed that F-1 was dying and didn't seem to think that some of these things mattered.
It was and they did.
The list was long and it doesn't really matter, but as we look at the latest vote it seems that we are in the same place. The loudmouths have won again.
Says the loudmouth:
"Don't change a thing because I am going to quit soon (although I don't know it) and I don't want to bother with doing something different in my short time left"
I just got back from the airport. I did not go to Las Vegas, although I got all the way out there with my gear. The old child's riddle applies, although no one seems to think so. "If a camel is carrying all the feathers it can carry, can it carry one more?" I have had an increasingly difficult time checking my luggage for these trips and started shipping everything UPS about 5 years ago. This time I got a very small cardboard box (12" x 12") and put in two of the removable tail Sidewinder airplanes. Continental rejected it and wanted 100.00 each way. I decided to come home and write this instead.The camel just got the last feather. One of my pleadings was for shorter wings because they ship better and can be built with foam and balsa. You think the long wings fly better, although you ignore the aspect ratio of other planes. I wanted thicker wings too. You wanted to spend 500 for kits. You have your wish.
Attendance will continue to go down. Just you watch. The feathers are falling everywhere.
No, I'm not quitting. However, be careful not to be trampled at the exit by your loudmouth friends.
Dub
