The following is what I posted on Stunt Hangar.
More content could be had by going back to the 1990s and 2000s issues and recycle some of the great "how to" articles of those issues.
Hi Guy:
Some of that can - and should - be done. But, where are the
new ideas and the
new authors/innovators? No one seems to want to contribute these days. I spent the lion's share of my time at the helm of
Stunt News trying to get people who had good ideas and designs to actually prepare articles for publication. A few, like Dave Trible, Wes Dick, Tom Hampshire, and a few others responded, but many just told me that they didn't have the time to write articles and/or draw plans. Many of them were the same ones complaining that the people who
do volunteer to write stuff and do stuff for PAMPA/
Stunt News weren't doing enough! I've been asking one particular PAMPA member to allow us to publish his very neat original design for many years, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears...
I can sleep very well at night knowing that I gave blood to PAMPA/
Stunt News and went far beyond what I should have in failing health to keep it going. If
Stunt News and PAMPA are to survive (and that's the correct word to be using here...), then everyone in PAMPA is going to have to take responsibility to contribute SOMETHING! I made a plea while Editor there to all PAMPA members to write and submit an article about "Why I fly Stunt." I received three...
There were many times when I had to stop working on getting
Stunt News out the door and write one or two articles for a particular issue just to fill the pages. If you want to know what "burned out" looks like, I'll send you a personal photo taken at the end of my tenure at
Stunt News.
If no one cares anymore, then just let PAMPA die a dignified death. All good things finally come to an end. If, on the other hand, the members want it to continue, then they have to take ownership of the organization as if it were a child who is dependent on their constant care. If everyone in PAMPA waits for "someone else" to do the heavy lifting, then it will surely die. This is just sad, and it makes me mad and sick at the same time.
Just one final note: I anyone wants to take me to task for anything I've written in this post, they had better be someone who has actually contributed to PAMPA and/or Stunt News in the past. If you are a PAMPA member and haven't been part of the solution to the PAMPA and Stunt News issues, then you are part of the problem.
Bob Hunt
AMA 1114 HOF
PAMPA HOF