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zzzzzzz From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
Anyone have a working link fore this?
"Mick" wrote in message Take a look at my summary on consumer advocacy and commecial conflicts of interest at http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=384796352&fmt=raw |
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From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
In article .com, Mick says...
Folks, Thought this was too important to get lost in the past. And I conclude more than ever that Jim Campbell does bad things, is bad for aviation, and has no business in the aviation community. The most salient points are, in my opinion, the references to glowing reviews of unsafe aircraft by Jim Campbell, who has repeatedly shown that his reviews are not to be trusted. Best to all, Mick Boy reading that was like having Tony back again. Change the names from Wingy to jaun and all the info is still relevent. Thanks for the blast from the past. Chuck ( damn I still miss Tony) S RAH-14/1 ret |
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zzzzzzz From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
Steve Foley opined:
Anyone have a working link fore this? http://kudos.goldenware.com/s/Japan_Airlines/8.html |
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zzzzzzz From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
Mick,
I was looking for a link to Tony's "summary on consumer advocacy and commecial conflicts of interest". The dejanews link in your post is broken. "Mick" wrote in message oups.com... Steve Foley opined: Anyone have a working link fore this? http://kudos.goldenware.com/s/Japan_Airlines/8.html |
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From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...Tony LIVES !!!! HAAAAAhhhhaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
"Mick" wrote in message oups.com... Folks, Thought this was too important to get lost in the past. And I conclude more than ever that Jim Campbell does bad things, is bad for aviation, and has no business in the aviation community. The most salient points are, in my opinion, the references to glowing reviews of unsafe aircraft by Jim Campbell, who has repeatedly shown that his reviews are not to be trusted. Best to all, Mick __________________________________________ From Tony P Organization Vincit omnia veritas, vincit qui patitur. Date Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:54:43 -0500 Newsgroups rec.aviation.homebuilt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Milt: I assume from your tone that you are sincere, and are simply unaware of some of the issues. I hardly intend to educate you in a single message, but would refer you to sources like Dejanews and John Ousterhout's page at http://www.cyberis.net/~jouster for a bit of information. Take a look at my summary on consumer advocacy and commecial conflicts of interest at http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=384796352&fmt=raw (There have been a LOT of decent summaries of his history of mental illness and lying, if you care to look for them. Hell, the transcripts of the court hearing are available online, along with the judge's findings of his mental illness.) If you are saying that Campbell isn't always wrong, of course that's true. If you're saying that sometimes he espouses views you and I and others share, that's pretty obvious. Remember his crocodile tears about John Denver? Gosh, he was almost as broken up as the family. I once took the position that if Campbell was good for aviation, I didn't care whether he beat his wife, was an asshole or had warts. I figured nobody else was standing up to the crooks in aviation and somebody had to. (Don't believe me? Go back and look at my late '96 posts around here.) I changed my mind when I concluded that most of his attacks on companies seemed utterly untrustworthy and probably motivated by personal feuds, and when I observed that the personality he exhibits now is just as obnoxious, self-centered, dishonest, pusillanimous and bullying as the one depicted in his mental illness hearing in 1980. It wasn't until I saw him in action - saw the way he intimidates and threatens and manipulates and attempts to silence people, saw the magnitude of his lies and the untrustworthiness of ANYTHING written in his magazine - most of which I had assumed true in making my assessment of his value, that I realized: Jim Campbell's only value in aviation is TO HIMSELF. Aviation does not benefit from the occasional belated accuracy of a man who is just as likely to attack a company because of a personal dispute as he is for a legitimate reason. Nor does it benefit from a man who is just as likely to rave about a machine that could be a "death trap" as to accurately criticize one (read his rave review of the Mini 500 in the magazine - do you see any reference to bad design, cheap hardware, etc. ?). And that is EXACTLY what I concluded was the case with him. There was once a Frenchman named Chauvin - the man from whom the word "Chauvinism" comes. This old codger would rise up and shout "Vive La France" or the equivalent every time it was remotely possible to make an expression of patriotism. Hell, it's a common ploy by politicians. Why do they do it? Well, WHO IS GOING TO DISAGREE WITH THEM?? And if they can raise a cheer that everybody else joins in, they can look like a leader when they haven't generated a single new thought nor made a contribution of any kind. (Incidentally "male chauvinism" - the expression inappropriately shortened to "chauvinism" in recent years - never WAS simply a criticism of sexism. It implied that every time a sexist male uttered his ignorant opinion, you and I and the rest of the males cheered him on. It was, in short, anti-male propaganda.) Campbell has mastered the art of seeing which way the crowd is running, pretending to be out front of it and shouting louder than anyone else "Go that way! Go that way!" in order to seek attention. It was true in the Bob Hoover case - in which he would have you believe it was HIS efforts that accomplished a reprieve - and in every other case I see where he's taken a supportable position. Do you doubt this? Go back and read the AVWeb piece on the Mini 500, weeks before Campbell posted his first "notice." And compare the well-researched excellence of that page with the technical ambiguity and "me-tooism" of Campbell's piece. THEN go back and read his piece on the Mini 500 in the magazine - in which he gave it such a ringing endorsement that everybody wanted to go out and buy one. How many of those now in danger or even killed by that aircraft DID SO AFTER READING CAMPBELL'S ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE? How can you praise his attacks today and ignore his contribution to the problem? And how many advertising dollars did he earn as a result of that glowing report (companies do NOT advertise where they are criticized). Campbell is not an engineer, not a scientist nor even a technician. He isn't an A&P or an IA. He hasn't even attended a trade school for airplane mechanics. Ex-associates and significant others claim he can't turn a wrench competently. He doesn't write technical articles and I doubt he reads them either. He has a high-school diploma, and zero credentials regarding aircraft design of ANY kind, much less rotorcraft. (And yes, education IS important - CRITICALLY important - in any technical endeavor. Flying ultralights makes one not at all qualified to design aircraft or credibly comment on their design. But Mr. Campbell seems to like the "direct" route to expertise - simply CLAIM it and most people won't argue; hell if it appears in print, it must be true, right? And he is the most qualified "aero-journalist" in the world, because he says it.) Perhaps none of this matters. Perhaps you don't care that Campbell failed to deliver an issue of the magazine for ten months, and never even bothered to send a postcard to us subscribers explaining why. Perhaps you don't care about the tens of thousands of dollars in new subscription renewal moneys he solicited and accepted RIGHT BEFORE HE STOPPED PUBLISHING, when he must have known there would never be a November, '96 issue. Or the fact that that money -- $30,000 in just two checks within a few weeks --- was promptly moved out of the magazine publishing company and into his book-publishing corporation venture instead (this stuff is public record - read the Trustee's suit). Perhaps you don't care about his having accepted tens of thousands of dollars in advertising money and even book orders for the Sportplane Resource Guide - due out in '96 and not delivered until '98 -- and then a rehash of the original '94-'95 obsolete information. Hell, maybe you don't care about Mr. Campbell's business ethics at all. Perhaps you don't care about the string of printers used and then stiffed and left unpaid for months of magazines printed, or the number who have had to sue him to get paid even partly, or had to accept payments over many months and finally got stiffed altogether in the bankruptcy. Look at the Bankruptcy Court claims, where the last two who are out close to $100,000 and nearly $40,000 according to the records ended up with nothing. Heck, even the guy who printed those little subscription cards in the magazine didn't get paid. I suggest you take your stack of U.S. Aviator magazines and separate them into two piles: (1) Those that were PAID for and (2) Those that WERE SOLD TO YOU and Campbell's company took the money from you and advertisers, but where the writers, printers and others got stiffed. #2 would be quite a stack. Do you care about his failure to pay everyone from the nonprofit Boys & Girls Clubs of Lakeland (for BRATWURSTS, for God's sake) - who had to sue him and threaten his ability to ever have a Sun & Fun party again -- to the florist who delivered his wife's anniversary and Valentine's Day flowers, to electricians, personnel agencies, suppliers, and consultants? Do you want the list of writers he stiffed (and in some cases never even told them their stories had been run?) and the list of those who will NEVER write for him again? Worse, how about not paying even the withholding taxes taken from his employees' paychecks?? Perhaps you don't care about his treatment of the woman, well actually woMEN he claimed to care about. Perhaps you don't care about his treatment of employees and former employees (did you know that THREE of them had "anonymous" calls made to state children's welfare agencies claiming they were guilty of child abuse right after leaving his employment on bad terms?). Perhaps you don't care about the $400,000 in creditors he left stiffed when dumped Airedale Press, Inc. in bankruptcy and took all the assets of the magazine it had published since its inception, the airplane it had paid for and renovated, the cash from its accounts, computers, printers and even its chairs and tables and started spitting out a magazine in the name of a new, nonexistent company. Or his having promoted subscription renewals in 1996 when there WAS no November '96 issue in existence and he had to know the magazine wouldn't print an issue for months, if ever again. Perhaps you don't care about misrepresentations to advertisers ad others, about the magazine's circulation and how long it's been published, even the number of annual parties he's held. Or his use of the magazine to attack companies owned by those who criticized Mr. Campbell or argued with him, or his failure to disclose that a company he scathingly attacked (referring to its principal as a "drug runner" among other things) was actually owned by his own ex-partner with whom he had had a vicious dispute? Or that he was in fact involved in a personal dispute with his own EX-FIANCE when he attacked her employer for HER actions, describing her only as the company's "employee"? Perhaps you don't care about his being ejected repeatedly from Sun & Fun, most recently while screaming obscenities and calling the Lakeland Police officers "F**king Neo-Nazis." Perhaps you don't care about Mr. CAmpbell's penchant for calling the homes of his critics or adversaries and ranting at their children, or calling the wives of their EAA chapter officers and threatening to sue them into the ground. Or his endless threats to sue when criticized. [Or, given your concerns about stupid litigation, the fact that he's sued fourteen people for nothing more than doing precisely that - one for nothing more than posting public COURT proceedings?] Perhaps you don't care about Campbell claiming to have flown relief missions in Africa, having thousands of PIC flight hours overseas, about testimony and repeated reports of his having falsely claimed to have been a Japan Airlines Captain, to have flown 747's, to have been a Hollywood stunt man, a CIA operative, a Vietnam veteran, to have had a wife die tragically of illness, no, er uh an accident. Or having harassed poor Laurel Ramey all over the country after she merely tried to get away from him. I can't even begin to catalog here the list of former employees, friends, partners and business associates, writers and others who describe this man's personality and credibility in emphatic and negative terms. You have to do the research, wait for court testimony or read the book. Here's the stuff on conflicts of interest. I hope the foregoing has been educational. From: "Tony P." Subject: Wingman150 Date: 25 Aug 1998 00:00:00 GMT To: Wingman150 Organization: Vincit omnia veritas, vincit qui patutur. Reply-To: Newsgroups: rec.aviation.rotorcraft, rec.aviation.homebuilt Okay, Wingperson, you're not convinced Campbell is a bad man. And as long as you want videotapes of Campbell robbing a bank, you won't be. Just hang around and keep paying attention. Time is what's convinced others. Don't take offense, but I don't think ANYONE at 15 is much of a judge of credibility even if it's worthwhile to try. It's hard to let go of heroes -- even some of us old geezers have trouble with it. I defended him for many months myself before I saw him in action. I frankly don't believe that whether or not one person thinks Jim Campbell is a "nice guy" merits much comment. It certainly isn't what I am interested in. Like whom you want, but that's not the issue. And I also agree that the rancor needs a rest. Angry emotions are unnecessary to a debate of fact and issue. I am always appalled when some new, previously-unheard-of Campbell advocate begins hurling insults in response to factual debate, then others decry the nastiness. That scenario has repeated itself again here. This isn't a matter of emotions, and the fact that you LIKE Campbell and find him charming is nice, but meaningless. Hell, the shrinks in the mental illness hearing found him likeable and charming too. But whether we LIKE him isn't important. I suspect you've (and many others have) misperceived the entire issue. Certainly you misperceive my point. The question isn't whether you or I believe Campbell is a good person, a bad person or a nut. That's why I continued to defend him even after learning he had a mental illness history and a lousy personality (as reported by those close to him). THE QUESTION IS SOLELY WHETHER HE HAS THE CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY AND OBJECTIVITY TO PASS JUDGMENT ON OTHERS -- ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE AVIATION BUSINESSES TO WHOM HE LOOKS FOR MONEY TO SUPPORT HIS MAGAZINE. When a magazine purports to pass judgment on products and companies, it has a fundamental dilemma -- magazines make their money on advertisers (subscriptions cover only a minor part of the costs). Advertisers who get bad press don't buy ads. Advertisers who get good press, do. Let's put aside the obvious offputting stuff -- like the fact that Campbell's company didn't send out a magazine to its subscribers from October, 1996 to July, 1997, and that it never so much as mailed its subscribers (including myself) a postcard explaining why, or the conflicting stories it told during that time (including concealing the fact that his wife had simply left him back in July, 1996, for good). Ignore the fact that Campbell continued to sell subscriptions the whole time, or that an affiliate meanwhile sold not-yet-existing books for perhaps 1 1/2 years without delivering them or returning the money. Or that when a mag finally was sent out, it had the name of a new, nonexistent company on it. Let's ignore that obvious, curious stuff and focus on the big picture. There's an important ethical principle involved here. We don't allow sexual harrassment at work, and officers can't "fraternize" with subordinates in the military. Priests and psychiatrists aren't allowed to have personal relationships with those they counsel. We don't subject our children to exploitation by adults or authority figures. Government regulators can't have financial relationships with the companies they inspect or regulate. Judges can't have financial relationships with law firms. Why? because persons in power ought not to be able to take advantage of those over whom they HAVE power. Power makes the dominated person treat the empowered person with favor and advantage, and that treatment -- be it money, advantage, sexual favor, whatever -- influences the person in power. Ever hear the saying "POWER CORRUPTS"? Or heard that some people seek power like others seek air and food? This is why ANY legal or social institution HAS A RIGID CODE OF ETHICS FOR THOSE WHO ARE PLACED IN POSITIONS OF POWER. And rigid scrutiny by others of any person in such a position. Public servants regularly go to jail for conflicts of interest. Even respected journalists have a thoroughly-documented set of standards that are accepted in the industry. Respected newspapers place rigid policies in place to oversee the judgments of any individual, with publishers and editors with authority to overrule writers, with committees overseeing the ethics of editors and with peer-oversight mechanisms when something goes wrong anyway. (Forget for now that NONE of that ever existed in Campbell's one-man-in control operations.) Note that Consumer Reports, the ONLY truly respected publication in general product evaluation and consumer protection, takes NO advertising. Similarly, Aviation Consumer takes none, just like Light Plane Maintenance (which is why the latter are so damned expensive -- $70 or $80 a year if I recall my last renewal). Consumer Reports has a large nonprofit foundation behind it. It spends millions of dollars on testing, engineering review and information-gathering. It has numerous experts, with numerous degrees, on its staff. Its reputation is based on total objectivity and integrity. Note that in experimental aviation, we have a "small pond." One suggestion of insolvency, bad design or dishonesty is enough to kill almost any company. Heck, almost all kit companies are marginal -- even some big ones. Any publisher holds life or death power, if he's unprincipled enough to wield it selfishly. The cancellation of a few contracts based on an inflammatory article can -- and in one case clearly DID kill a company and leave its builders unsupported. Now compare Campbell's operation to Consumer Reports. Campbell makes grand claims of integrity similar to theirs. He literally purports to be the oversight and conscience, the judge and jury of sport and experimental aviation morality. HE claims the honor of telling you, the aviation consumer, what to buy and what NOT to buy; to whom to send your money and even whom to believe and NOT believe. Read his own Web page and other descriptions of what he does! "No Bravo Sierra" (i.e. no B.S.) he proclaims. But he sells advertising, and sells it aggressively, from the stories former advertisers tell. In fact, so aggressively, some have said, that they found his repeated calls and pressure, ominous in itself. In fact, he has a tiny publication (as aviation magazines go) that is desperately dependent on the trickle of money from advertising to get from issue to issue. [Compare the hundreds of thousands of subscribers of Kitplanes, Flying, Private Pilot, AOPA Flyer, EAA Sport Aviation to the 10 or 11,000 subscribers of U.S. Aviator at its peak -- of which MANY were free, not paid for.] In short, Campbell tells you to listen to him in order to learn what to buy and not buy, as a consumer advocate. Then you open the cover of his magazine and he tells you what to buy and NOT buy based on the money sent to him in order to put that picture of an aircraft on the inside cover. AND HIS ONLY EXPLANATION OF HOW HE ALONE CAN DO THIS IMPOSSIBLE THING IS THAT HE IS UNIQUE AND SPECIAL. HE, THE "ZOOMER" HAS SO MUCH POWER OR CREDIBILITY OR AUTHORITY THAT HE CAN UNIQUELY "GET AWAY" WITH CRITICIZING HIS OWN ADVERTISERS. (Hey, I'm not making this up -- that's what articles have said -- things like "only Zoomer can get away with" etc. -- though I haven't read where he actually did so). In short, it all depends on his OWN personal power, influence, integrity and credibility. On HIS PERSONALITY. Not his employees, not his company's, or his consultants' and certainly not MINE -- just HIS. Consider this. A small publishing company's success or failure may depend on an extra couple of thousand dollars a month, or per issue. From tax returns and bankruptcy filings, it seems clear that Campbell's company lost money from its inception (returns all show no income despite supposedly paying him nothing and leaving perhaps $500K in debts). Now a single ad monthly can add $1000 or more to revenues. Similarly, an unpaid bill can deprive the company of that $1000 each month. Campbell had serious collection problems with a large number of advertisers (several hundred thousand dollars in uncollectible, mostly old, receivables, mostly companies out of business). Demonstrating the frailty of the sport aviation business, many of his advertisers simply went under. Lots of staff time, including Campbell's time, went into chasing those ad revenues. Now, how much pressure does this put on a company to treat loyal and PAYING advertisers well? Especially a company that clearly has had cash flow problems almost throughout its existence? And against this background, when a publication obsessively and redundantly attacks the same small group of companies OVER and OVER and OVER, patting itself on the back about its crusade and rewriting the same stories repeatedly, what can you deduce? Maybe that it's trying to get the maximum mileage out of safely flogging a few companies that will never advertise anyway -- because they detest him and he them? That it's trying to sell ITSELF as the protector of aviation consumers, even though it has only a single high-school-educated editor/publisher/primary writer/"test pilot"/reviewer who won't let others really edit his work at all (read it and ask yourself if anyone else checked the grammar, spelling and style). And even though it has never created the organization, facilities, funds, expertise, programs or ethics oversight policies to actually fulfill that role? Just how much consumer testing is getting done by a company operated out of the principal's rented house, with no budget for testing, no engineers or aeronautical design experts on staff? Just what kind of analysis of the financial solvency, stability and prospects of these hundreds of companies is getting done, without an economist, accountant, financial or legal expert or similar on staff, and without even a financial investigation of the companies for them to review? Just how much monitoring of customer satisfaction and service is getting done, without a staff of investigators, survey people, statisticians and evaluators? Without access to the information on these hundreds of companies regarding their treatment of customers, how can ANY publication claim to judge their merit -- or to compare that of the few upon which it focuses while ignoring the rest? Consistent with that, just how much consumer advocacy IS there in a magazine that's published for 8 or 9 years (well, we lost a year of issues in the middle there but still --) and repeatedly just flogs 8 or 9 companies?? Is there only one company a year taking money from unwary customers? Surely our aggregate experience tells us that dozens of companies annually take the money and run, through dishonesty or just bad business judgment, stiffing the customers with no warning from anybody. (Forget for a moment that the company publishing U.S. Aviator itself did exactly that -- took the subscription money and folded without prior warning to those who were sending their money for subscriptions.) Then we find that a couple of those companies attacked have absolutely stellar ratings by customers? And excellent aircraft? And despite great customer loyalty and products, are constantly flogged anyway --- one over a customer who lost $2700 in 1984 on a deposit be paid to a DEALER of a predecessor company??? Do you know HOW MANY customers lost money to kit manufacturers, how many companies sold nonexistent kits and then went under, how many customers were left with half-kits or unflyable aircraft by dozens of companies in that time? (I hardly need to mention Bede,Bede,Bede -- I personally was amazed at the Wheeler yoyo, Prescott Pusher dilemma, the mini-Skymaster and a half-dozen others -- and by numerous companies purportedly manufacturing auto conversion engines with impossible power ratings, most of which have long since failed). And do you know how many current companies are owned by people who have failed in this business in the past leaving customers and creditors in the lurch? (I won't mention names here because many are good people, except to say that some of Campbell's best advertisers and, from his writing, closest friends are among them?) Yet Campbell flogs the same few companies, over and over and over, angrily attacking their principals and supporters in print, on the Internet and verbally, engaging in endless intemperate rants? Then you find that company after company rates as good or excellent or worthwhile have numerous vocal, disgruntled customers. Many have lawsuits and controversies over their designs, their advertising claims. Many have repeatedly delivered partial kits after payment in full. Heck, one had stiffed a bunch of consumers and failed due to court judgments against the principal even before his 1985 edition, yet still appears without a warning. Many are out of business. And you find that the few companies he attacks range from excellent, good, average to bad, but almost all seem to have one thing in common -- disputes with him that he didn't mention, from an ex-fiance who left him to advertising disputes, to lawsuits against him that never appeared in print, to disputes over circulation that seems exaggerated. And that several seem to have bounced from the highly-praised column to the bad guys instantly after the disputes? But all seem TO HAVE BEEN ADVERTISERS AND NOT A NEGATIVE WORD WAS SPOKEN UNTIL THEY NO LONGER WERE?? No, none of this is about whether you or I LIKE James Richard ("Zoom") Campbell. If ability to make a good impression on the telephone were all that was important, Campbell would be a multimillionaire. Instead, it's all about credibility. And plead as he may that all this inconvenient personal stuff is irrelevant and vicious, the fact IS that it's relevant PRECISELY because HE HAS MADE HIS OWN HONESTY ABSOLUTELY CENTRAL TO THE WORTH OF HIS PRODUCT, AND TO THE WORTH OF HIS WORDS. HE has put his integrity in issue. HE has put his judgment in issue. HE has asked all of us to suspend our judgment and research and to trust his honesty and decency and integrity, and to risk tens of thousands of dollars on the companies he chooses in doing so. Then he complains when the fact that he has consistently FABRICATED credentials and history and experience is brought up. And he complains when it's mentioned that he was diagnosed as having a mental illness -- lifelong in its nature and prognosis as described by the psychiatrists -- that compels its victims to chronically and continuously lie about themselves and their behavior and history. And he complains when it's mentioned that his ex-employees, ex-partners, ex-fiance, ex-wife and others repeatedly attest that the dishonest, unbalanced personality depicted in that mental illness hearing -- an illness which was serious enough for his pilot privileges to be revoked, and serious enough to compel him to impersonate a physician -- STILL EXISTS AND IS A PART OF THE DAILY EXISTENCE OF THIS SELF-DECLARED PARAGON OF AVIATION INTEGRITY. IS IT irrelevant that people close to him attest that he still constantly lies about his history and experience, claiming for example that he was a Boeing 747 pilot at 21 for Japan Airlines (read the NTSB transcript, for heaven's sake -- he was just in training as an instructor for 6 or 7 weeks and never returned the blazer). Or that his assertions of 13000-plus PIC hours, flying in Ethiopia and 1000+ different aircraft flown are utter nonsense? Or that they claim he is still vindictive, vengeful and retaliatory and tries to injure or destroy those who've angered him? Or that his repeated flying into rages and loss of control, as when he was AGAIN ejected from Sun&Fun, is consistent with this personality disorder? Is the fact that the personality and behavior described by these people is PERFECTLY consistent with one who would intentionally attack a person or business out of a spirit of vengeance and retaliation, IRRELEVANT -- when victims repeatedly present evidence that this is EXACTLY what he has done? Each person must judge for him- or herself. Judge carelessly if you don't have anything at stake -- who cares? Judge CAREFULLY if you intend to put tens of thousands of dollars on the line -- OR if you're a kit manufacturer and intend to stay in business. But this is NOT about whether you "like" Jim Campbell, or whether he sounds like a "nice guy" on the phone to a 15-year-old -- no matter how bright or well-meaning that 15-year-old may be. It's about "who will judge the judge" and Campbell's answer seems to be "nobody" while mine, and that of others is "we all must, and we must have the truth in order to do so." Tony Pucillo |
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From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
In article , D.Reid says...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...Tony LIVES !!!! HAAAAAhhhhaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! My feelings exactly. It was interesting to read a post concerning zoom from BWB before he went over to the Dark Side:-) __________________________________________________ _____________________________ Quoting a known psycho who lost his medical due to mental problems is not getting the word out. Zoom would lie to his mother if he thought he could get ahead by it. Badwater Bill _________________________________________________ ____________________________ Ahhh a man may change but the truth is still the truth :-) Chuck S RAH-14/1 ret "credibility it was always about credibility" chuck s |
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From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
Looks like you found your way to Chucks files. LOL! I wonder how that
happened. At any rate, Jim had a lot of respect for Tony and was sincerely shocked when I told him he had passed away. (No, I don't care who believes me or not, you should know that by now.) Like I said, I believe you should have the gumption to talk to Jim and get his side of the story. Until you do that, all you're doing is blowing more hot air of the RAH gaggle type. "Mick" wrote in message oups.com... Folks, Thought this was too important to get lost in the past. |
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From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 yearsago)
Juan Jimenez wrote:
Looks like you found your way to Chucks files. LOL! I wonder how that happened. At any rate, Jim had a lot of respect for Tony and was sincerely shocked when I told him he had passed away. (No, I don't care who believes me or not, you should know that by now.) Like I said, I believe you should have the gumption to talk to Jim and get his side of the story. Until you do that, all you're doing is blowing more hot air of the RAH gaggle type. I would be happy to hear campbell's side. He hasn't responded to my e-mails. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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From the Jim Campbell, Captain Zoom archives (all of 6 years ago)
Juan said:
"I believe you should have the gumption to talk to Jim and get his side of the story. Until you do that, all you're doing is blowing more hot air of the RAH gaggle type. " Mick replied: Juan, I think I'll take the opposite approach that you have. You have met the man and ignore his works. I'll judge this journalist and businessman by his work, not by the man. For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Again, I ask anyone reading this thread to identify, suggest, intimate, reveal, denote, or show us ANY OTHER PERSON who has done more harm to more people and businesses in aviation than Mr. Jim Campbell. Find me one person who has alienated more people, told more lies, or disrupted more events. Just one. Find me a single, solitary soul who has sued more people, taken more people's money, or flip-flopped on more reviews. TO MAKE IT FAIR: I welcome suggestions of people who have done more good in aviation. I'll start the list with PAUL H. POBEREZNY (homebuilt aviation) and PHIL BOYER (general aviation). For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Mick p.s. Not to say I won't be happy to meet and talk about these things with Jim. ONCE AGAIN, I don't care what kind of person Jim is. And I have nothing personal against Jim. I have judged his work, and it has come up short on every side. Jim is free to chime in at any time. He is welcome to express himself and explain any discrepancies in what has been written. |
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