AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 2008 - (Page 42) LETTERS Letters from the past I have just finished reading the first issue of The AOPA Pilot (April 1958 Pilot). I am ordering a subscription for the board’s library and want to congratulate you and your staff on the new “baby.” James R. Durfee Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board Washington, D.C. I just had an opportunity to read through your first issue of The AOPA Pilot, and want to congratulate you and your staff on having done a very outstanding job. You certainly have set some very high standards in your first issue, and we’ll be looking forward to receiving the magazine regularly. Bill Robinson Cessna Aircraft Company Wichita, Kansas I have just received my copy of The AOPA Pilot. It stinks. That is editorially. One might see your magazine on the newsstand and purchase it, but most certainly would not do so a second time. The articles have no reader interest. They are dull, drab technical articles. What the public wants is stories that hold them spellbound. Ones which can create dreams and hopes and desires. The key to such are a combination of “riches or treasure,” flying and adventure, and women. On the latter score, not the dull, drab, frowsy type such as found in an office, but instead “women of the world,” beautiful, adventurous, sex personified, who will either love you or roll you both in the same night. I do hope you make your magazine interesting, as I believe it to be a wonderfully bold, daring step. Jack Burrows, Aviator Washington, D.C. I must admit I was greatly disappointed when it was announced that AOPA was going into the publishing business. I figured AOPA could never put out a magazine that could match Flying, but you have surpassed them. Richard Finegan Saranac Lake, New York 1965 In the January issue of The AOPA Pilot I had inserted an advertisement for information leading to the location and recovery of a B–25, N3339G. Within one week of the arrival of my copy of The AOPA Pilot, we received a call from Alamogordo, New Mexico, with information leading to the location and recovery of this aircraft. After spending hundreds of dollars for direct telephone calls to various airfields, I decided to try The Pilot, and I go on record as saying I recommend the continued use of this publication by any of your advertisers. Samuel P Norley, AOPA 238162 . Lake Park, Florida Things in the world of flying are just not going the way they should—for the average fellow, that is. Recently, while flying a Cessna 320 in Alaska, I had the fun of meeting many bush pilots and seeing their modified airplanes. Only in Alaska did I feel the spirit and love of flying that should prevail here at home and does not. Alaskan pilots fly for fun as well as necessity, and they must land in the toughest areas. Of all those people with whom I talked (pilots, mechanics, businessmen), not one had a good word to say for AOPA PILOT • 42 • MARCH 2008
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