You’ve got to get up pretty early to pull one over on Mr. Gassaway, and
apparently I didn’t.



You’re thinking that it was originally F/F scale is one of the reasons the
name was changed. “SFFS” is quite a mouthful, so almost immediately
everyone, including myself, started calling it “F/F” just to save time. As
for that book, if you point me to the author, I’ll be sure to teach him a
thing or two!



As for the rest, ignorant as charged.



- Jack



Jack Hagerty, ARA Press

http://www.arapress.com



Prepare for the arrival of "The Saucer Fleet!"





From: scaleroc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scaleroc@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
gcgassaway@...
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:17 PM
To: scaleroc@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Scaleroc] SFFS Questions








Jack Hagerty wrote:

>>>>>
1) The recent name change is not something that happens “every few years.”
This is the first time and, in fact is the first modification of the event
since it was approved in 2001.
<<<<<

Well, I thought it was originally called F/F scale (Future Fiction Scale)
when it was flown provisionally. Maybe it was technically called SF/F, but
lots of people called it F/F when it was provisional. Even Peter Alway who
co-created the event caleld it F/F, such as here in 1999:
http://tinyurl.com/kjekqb

So if technically it was SF/F when flown provisionally, that is why I
thought the name had been changed from F/F to SF/F when adopted as a full Pink
Book event.

Seems like the main confusion about the name over the years was leaving out
the "S" part, most people got the "F/F" part. So yet again in light of
problems with the rules for this event it is strange that the rules revision
change was not to fix any problems, but to rename it.

BTW - there is a website that refers to a new book by saying this,
leaving out the "S" part:
"This book also provides the scale model rocket enthusiast with dozens of
prototypes that are suitable for the NAR's "Future/Fiction Scale"
competition."
The site link is: http://www.arapress.com/tns.html

Oops... :-)

>>>>>
I don’t recall the “plastic parts” portion of 53.3 being there at the
time. Has that been added since 2000 or so?
<<<<<

The rule allowing Plastic Model Parts for Scale models has been in the
"Scale" rules since at last 1973. And in the "Sport Scale" rules since that
event class was created in 1979.

So it is conspicuously absent in the CS-SF/F event.

- George Gassaway

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