This thing deserves it's own thread
With my either less than stellar admin skills, or a bit of borked software, I'm not going to try to split off the thread that I managed to hijack with the message below
With the National Championship Air Races "sort-of" like the Indy 500 used to be... a once a year huge event. It dismays me to no end that Stihl does not recognize the suggestion that someone else here made, that they just put up a little "Proud Supporter of The National Championship Air Races" at the bottom end of each TV ad... Would be an absolutely HUGE shot in the arm for the most often misrecognized sport in America (ask anyone if they have heard of the Air Races and nearly every one will reply yes, that red bull thing rant/and those peericks even STOLE the idea and I can say that ONLINE IN PRINT because I signed a non-disclosure with the guy who invented what became RBAR to SUPPORT Reno, not bury it, as Red Bull seems to want to do.../rant)
My point being, as Owen says subsequently in this "split" "something's wrong"
What could it hurt? Anyone have any idea how to start a write-in suggestion campaign to them?? I borked my shoulder and can't sit at the computer for long right now (going to surgeon tomorrow) I know some of you guys are really good at this stuff!
Actually, this website was created for two reasons, I saw an opportunity open up with the NEW (at the time) deal, the web, that opportunity was to let the world know about two really important aviation interests of mine, the Spruce Goose which after all the years of "hermetically sealed" storage was sitting outside disassembled covered in PLASTIC and it simply galled me that something so precious was being treated like that... I even created and hosted the original sprucegoose.org site for a long time.
Since I grew up in Reno, I've always felt a bond, since attending my first Air Race in '79, well, I don't need to explain the fascination now do I!
I saw an opportunity to do something different there as well, I think we pretty much were the first folks to get the results out both qualifying and results, sometimes, same day... (phew... long days!)
One of the points of my starting this particular discussion is, I simply do not have the energy any longer to pursue the promotion. You guys saw it last winter, I barely had enough in me to recover the website when it crashed... (we'll see if the three joint surgeries I have coming up allow me more energy, I certainly feel better on the oral steroid they have me on now!)
OK, onto Owen's response and I'll throw it open to you's guys...
With my either less than stellar admin skills, or a bit of borked software, I'm not going to try to split off the thread that I managed to hijack with the message below
With the National Championship Air Races "sort-of" like the Indy 500 used to be... a once a year huge event. It dismays me to no end that Stihl does not recognize the suggestion that someone else here made, that they just put up a little "Proud Supporter of The National Championship Air Races" at the bottom end of each TV ad... Would be an absolutely HUGE shot in the arm for the most often misrecognized sport in America (ask anyone if they have heard of the Air Races and nearly every one will reply yes, that red bull thing rant/and those peericks even STOLE the idea and I can say that ONLINE IN PRINT because I signed a non-disclosure with the guy who invented what became RBAR to SUPPORT Reno, not bury it, as Red Bull seems to want to do.../rant)
My point being, as Owen says subsequently in this "split" "something's wrong"
What could it hurt? Anyone have any idea how to start a write-in suggestion campaign to them?? I borked my shoulder and can't sit at the computer for long right now (going to surgeon tomorrow) I know some of you guys are really good at this stuff!
Actually, this website was created for two reasons, I saw an opportunity open up with the NEW (at the time) deal, the web, that opportunity was to let the world know about two really important aviation interests of mine, the Spruce Goose which after all the years of "hermetically sealed" storage was sitting outside disassembled covered in PLASTIC and it simply galled me that something so precious was being treated like that... I even created and hosted the original sprucegoose.org site for a long time.
Since I grew up in Reno, I've always felt a bond, since attending my first Air Race in '79, well, I don't need to explain the fascination now do I!
I saw an opportunity to do something different there as well, I think we pretty much were the first folks to get the results out both qualifying and results, sometimes, same day... (phew... long days!)
One of the points of my starting this particular discussion is, I simply do not have the energy any longer to pursue the promotion. You guys saw it last winter, I barely had enough in me to recover the website when it crashed... (we'll see if the three joint surgeries I have coming up allow me more energy, I certainly feel better on the oral steroid they have me on now!)
OK, onto Owen's response and I'll throw it open to you's guys...
> Complete shoulder replacement coming, as soon as the cardiologist clears me for the freaking aneurism that was discovered with all this darn testing.. May have to get that fixed first.. shoulder un-freaking-bearable (no $HIT!) not gonna be able to shoot without it.. recovery time might become an issue due to first available slot and all that crap.. Reno 2021 might just be either impossible or darn different than ever for me..
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