I, on the other hand, enjoy MA

[peabody]

When my Model Aviation comes, I usually find several items of interest......be they ads for new products or articles....
Even the RC ARF building bits sometimes provide insight....
I read the Combat and Carrier pieces (most of the nifty stunt stuff isn't invented by stunt guys), and peruse the Scale pieces, but CL and RC.
The FF articles are nifty, too.

Just sayin
 

[Avaiojet]

When my Model Aviation comes, I usually find several items of interest......be they ads for new products or articles....
Even the RC ARF building bits sometimes provide insight....
I read the Combat and Carrier pieces (most of the nifty stunt stuff isn't invented by stunt guys), and peruse the Scale pieces, but CL and RC.
The FF articles are nifty, too.Just sayin

Sure, great mag., but to bad they print their plans in half tones with reduced screen overlays of their logo.

Done deliberately, so plans can't be copied from their pages.

CB

[Bill Hodges]

Me too, Peabody.  An article does not have to be CL specific in order to provide useful information.  

Bill Hodges

[Tim Wescott]

Sure, great mag., but to bad they print their plans in half tones with reduced screen overlays of their logo.

Done deliberately, so plans can't be copied from their pages.

Heinous.  Just heinous.  After they go to all the work to edit the articles and make sure the plans are in good shape, to then attempt to recoup their investment by getting some ongoing income from plans sales.

Why, they should just go bankrupt, and let us all find plans on the web, for free.

[Dennis Adamisin]

Agree Rich!

In fact I shall go so far as to say I learn MORE from the non-CL articles because they are tangent to what we are doing...

[ChrisSarnowski]

I find that there are some interesting tidbits most months. Other months I wish they mailed me a prop or some 4-40 socket head cap screws instead.

-Chris

[Avaiojet]

Heinous.  Just heinous.  After they go to all the work to edit the articles and make sure the plans are in good shape, to then attempt to recoup their investment by getting some ongoing income from plans sales.
Why, they should just go bankrupt, and let us all find plans on the web, for free.

Tim,

Go bankrupt? Isn't that stretching it a bit?

The British Mags, would have fold out, give away plans. I'll bet that increased sales.

How much cash on hand does the AMA have?

I'm a member, but I give the Mag. away.

Costs them more money the way they do it than to just print in B&W, with the logo off.

CB

[john e. holliday]

I too usually get somethig out of Model Aviation.   Bobby Hunt acted surprised when I told him his was one of the first articles I read when he had the one position.   In fact I read in one of the evaluation articles about the arf sport plane.   Electric powered.   The guy says it is great to go fly without a pit box.   He says he has five batteries charged and ready to go.  After a flight, wait for the motor to cool, put in charged battery and fly again.   I know when I go fly the boxes are in the back of the Ford with all the parts and peices as well as pit box, stooge and gallon of fuel.   Maybe put up 4 or 5 flights then clean up and go home.   I was thinking with extra batteries, all I would need is plane, lines, handle, stooge and the batteries.   Get ready Andy B.  I may be sending a PM soon.   

[Dennis Moritz]

Nice appreciation of John Brodak in the current issue.

[Brian Massey]

Sure wish it had a cartoon or such and may be a nekked gurl too.

I did find the article on making wheel pants almost interesting.

I glanced over the article about wheel pants thinking I'll have to get back to this, looks like it could be good reading and learning . . . of course a story about nekked gurls would have been read immediately 

Brian

[Peter Ferguson]

I think the AMA magazine is fine it doesn't need to cater to CL as that not the majority of members interest. There's plenty of CL stuff in Stunt news and CL World. MA is a good scapegoat for people who either don't want to part with $58 annual dues or are too lazy to CD a local contest to get the  reduced rate. There's more info on the boards than any magazine anyway. The best source of info is usually from other club members. Go fly!

[SteveMoon]

I agree Rich. I usually check out all the sections of MA, and often find
items that are helpful. Plus, there's more in my life than just CL. I thoroughly
enjoy hand launch gliders and have been known to do some RC Sport flying.
So, I rather enjoy MA.

Later, Steve

[Dick Pacini]

MA is a good scapegoat for people who either don't want to part with $58 annual dues or are too lazy to CD a local contest to get the  reduced rate. 

Seniors get a reduced rate of $48.

[Doug Moon]

I agree as well.

This month there is CL in the district columns as well.

[Larry Cunningham]

Sure, great mag., but to bad they print their plans in half tones with reduced screen overlays of their logo.

Done deliberately, so plans can't be copied from their pages.

CB

Use of shading and other tricks (e.g. strange scalings) is nothing new for magazines. Nowadays with determination and use of common graphics and CAD software these obstacles can be overcome to produce usable accurate plans. I learned from direct experience extracting full scale images from M.A.N. plans for Bill Sawyer's Laser Continental. As expected, it takes a lot of effort and cleanup. But when you no longer purchase certain plans, options are limited.

Whenever you can purchase the plans, that is certainly the best way.

My methods are detailed in the article "My AutoCAD Technique for Special Contours", published over 3 years ago in Brodak's Control Line World magazine.

L.

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