The below is from Bill Rich & Bob Hunt.
Gene
From Bill Rich's July/August column
Please note the date of
this Stunt News. Following is
the explanation given
to the EC for this move. I’m sure Bob Hunt will address this in
his column as well. I just wanted to “highlight” some of our
reasoning for this move.
It became all too apparent that trying to catch up on the
actual cover date while producing current issues could not be
accomplished. We are going to skip the May/June cover date
and produce the July/August issue of Stunt News instead. That will put
us back onto the proper cover date.
To ensure that all PAMPA members get the six issues that
they paid for, we have decided to begin work on a “Special
Issue” that will, in essence, be the missing May/June issue.
This special issue will be just that: special. This issue would
be more or less like the old Annual issues that American
Modeler produced. It should have more in-depth articles and
special columns from the Directors and from the regular
columnists as well. This move will allow us to start off 2010
right on cover date schedule and, hopefully, maintain that
schedule.
From Bob Hunt's July/August column
We've pressed the cosmic reset
button with this issue of Stunt
News and presto, we are back
on the correct cover date schedule
sort of. If you read these things from
front to back, then you've already read
Bill Rich's President's column and know
what I'm talking about.
Here's the deal: There was no way
that Liz Helms and I could produce two
issues of Stunt News in one deadline
cycle and get it back on the proper cover
date schedule. We have been able to
produce one issue every two months as
we are supposed to, but it was annoying
to us, and apparently a few other
members/readers that we could not get it
back on cover date schedule.
By simply skipping the May/June
cover date and going directly to the
July/August cover date we have
effectively put this thing on schedule.
But, we are minus one issue. Not to
worry, as we have decided to produce a
"Special Issue" of Stunt News that will
be delivered pretty much at the same
time as the November/December issue.
Perhaps not the ideal solution, but let's
take a look at the pluses of the situation.
The idea is to produce whatever the
current issue is, while also working on
the Special Issue a bit each deadline
cycle. Instead of having to try and
produce two full issues now in a two month
cycle, we can essentially produce
one and a third issues every two months
and have the missing issue of Stunt News
ready to go at the end of the year.
The Special Issue will contain some
surprises. If you are old enough to
remember the Annuals from Air Trails,
American Modeler, and Model Airplane
News, then you will also remember that
those issues had more in-depth features
and lots of fun and unusual articles that
were not normally seen in the "regular"
issues. That's what we are shooting for
with our Special Issue of Stunt News. We
want to fulfill the subscription
requirement of six issues in a calendar
year, certainly, but we also want to make
that issue a memorable one.
We have put the call out for
appropriate articles for such an issue,
and we have asked the PAMPA
District Directors to come up with
something special to highlight a
personality or club in their district
in their reports in that issue.
Again, because of the manner
in which we "inherited" the production
responsibilities of Stunt News, there
was really no way that we could catch
it up to the proper cover date and still
maintain a normal private life. This is
the only option we felt we had, and we
hope to turn it into a huge plus for the
PAMPA organization. Nuff said.
I'd like to take this opportunity to
remind, prod, cajole, intimidate, and
otherwise stimulate (that's the new
buzz word, isn't it?) the district
directors and columnists who have not
already submitted their materials for the
Special Issue to do so as soon as possible
so Liz and I don't have to work around
the clock at the eleventh hour to get the
Special Issue out the door on time.
--
Carl
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