Control Line World

I just received my first issue of control Line World. I am pleasantly surprised at the quality of the magazine. The magazine is full of interesting articles and they are all about control line. It has a really great article by Joe Adamusko about his Spitfires. I think the magazine is more readable than Stunt News. This isn't intended as any negative comparison between the magazines. I think its mainly due to Stunt News being mainly a newsletter. Control Line World is more of a news stand offering like Model Aviation or Flying Models but with content restricted to control line.

I have never been a Brodak supporter but am reconsidering my attitude toward John and his efforts in supporting control line. For now, the contributors seem to be mostly from the North East but I feel sure this is simply a matter of geography. They are near the center of action. The guy who seems to be having the greatest impact of the editorial content on the magazine is our own Richard Oliver here in Texas. I know for a fact he has been pounding the bushes looking for contributions from any local.

I've heard that the magazine has too much Brodak advertising content. This doesn't bother me. The magazine is brand new and has yet to attract advertisers based on the quality of the publication. Until then, John is paying the bill, why should I complain that he is filling otherwise empty ad space.

I think that If we all get behind this we will have a really good control line specific magazine. Until I see something I don't like, politics or otherwise, I'm going to give John and Richard the benefit of the doubt and support the new magazine.

I will be a contributor.

Al

Al,
Thanks for the update. I had dismissed the first issue as a Brodak Catalog. Perhaps I was too hasty in my judgement. I guess I'll get a subscription and give it a chance.
I think Richard Oliver is a "genuine" guy and a great modeler. He seems to have some very good ideas and it will be interesting to see how he leads this situation.
Although I didn't agree with John Brodak's dealings in PAMPA he has done a tremendous job in supporting control line and I (as are most of us) am indebted to him for that.

Randy C

Great to hear that you will contribute Al!

I enjoy the magazine a lot, it's really nice to have one that covers all aspects of C/L. I hope it will grow and grow and in time attract more international contributors. It is early days yet.

Of course it's a commercial venture for J.B - but its the only C/L magazine I know of. Every mag is a commercial venture of some sort.

I look forward to a "how to" and "what to use" article on electric stunt. It'd be a huge help to me to fly on my local soccer field (every English village has one!) rather than travel 18 miles each way to our present site near Dover.

Charles
Canterbury
UK

From strictly a commercial standpoint.....without advertisement, there will never be any magazine. I can remember as a kid, drooling over all the advertisment in the mags. I still brief through all the ads.
I'm an advertiser myself in my industry (www.lockstockbarrell.com) and will tell you that without ads, there's no business, there's no companies and then there are NO magazines.
It's the way the advertising/mag. world works.
Lou Tisch

>Of course it's a commercial venture for J.B - but its the only
>C/L magazine I know of. Every mag is a commercial venture of
>some sort.

Aside from Stunt News, of course.

Brett

I thought the first issue was fair but the second issue outstanding. Although I like my stunt news it is good to see another control line mag that covers other areas as well. Mag is easy to read and flows nicely. Hope it will survive with the niche market that control line is. Would like to see it go to six issues instead of four considering the price.
---Just my thoughts

One could say Stunt News is not a magazine but rather an orgaization newsletter. It is funded in various ways by the organization, and does not depend on ad and subscription revenue alone.

As side comment on 'commercial' Saw on TV about American Airlines that they no longer supply magazines other than "American World". This saved them a jillion dollars a year in fuel consts. American World will exist only so long as it generates enough revenue to pay for itself and for the fuel needed to carry it.

So Brett

Are you proposing that ads be removed from Stunt News?

If so, thank you!

At least I will not have to suffer pics of engines and models distorted totally out of reality and ads with pics that are so heavily pixillated they are difficult to comprehend—ads that, if I were the advertiser, I would refuse to pay for and ads that, if poor artwork is the reason for the reproduction quality, as a professional writer/editor, I would refuse to run!

But that's me.

Well, this thread is about to spin out of control.

Al - its great that you have found what you consider to be a venue to display the products of your skill and creativity. Your designs are always an amazement to me, especially considering the thought and research you put into everything.

For others who don't like the quality of Stunt News, there is only one viable course of action - volunteer to help make it better and have some way of doing it. It amazes me that a group of volunteers from all over the world manage as well as they do.

Lest this thread turn into another PAMPA - Brodak debate, its time for the old lockdown.

V/r
Bob


>So Brett
>
>Are you proposing that ads be removed from Stunt News?
>
>If so, thank you!
>
>At least I will not have to suffer pics of engines and models
>distorted totally out of reality and ads with pics that are so
>heavily pixillated they are difficult to comprehend—ads that,
>if I were the advertiser, I would refuse to pay for and ads
>that, if poor artwork is the reason for the reproduction
>quality, as a professional writer/editor, I would refuse to
>run!
>
>But that's me.