A letter I sent to the Wings Channel

This is the text of a letter I sent to the Programming Department at
the Wings Channel. If you have a comment, please be sure to send a
copy to me in case I miss it on the news group. Thanks.

AJ Harris


The letter:

I appreciate what you are trying to do with the Wings Channel.
However, the programming is becoming repetitive and boring. There's
only so much one wants to hear about the Luftwaffe and Alexei Tupolev.

Personally, I would love to see more about the history of the Powder
Puff Derby, Florence "Pancho" Barnes, the use of Soviet women pilots
during their "Great Patriotic War," the Female pilots of the 46th
Taman' Guards Bomber Regiment, etc.

This should provide enough material for several shows. I hope that
you will consider this and allow the Wings channel to live up to its
promise.

Thank you.

Sincerely, AJ Harris


cc: rec.aviation.piloting
rec.aviation.military

I must agree with you that the repetitive nature of programming is beginning
to become a turn-off. I personally would like to see more "recent" aviation
events. If I wanted that much history I'd switch to the history channel

I do like their new injections of "Learning to Fly" though.

JBaker
PP-ASEL, San Diego

"AJ" wrote in message
om...
This is the text of a letter I sent to the Programming Department at
the Wings Channel. If you have a comment, please be sure to send a
copy to me in case I miss it on the news group. Thanks.

AJ Harris


The letter:

I appreciate what you are trying to do with the Wings Channel.
However, the programming is becoming repetitive and boring. There's
only so much one wants to hear about the Luftwaffe and Alexei Tupolev.

Personally, I would love to see more about the history of the Powder
Puff Derby, Florence "Pancho" Barnes, the use of Soviet women pilots
during their "Great Patriotic War," the Female pilots of the 46th
Taman' Guards Bomber Regiment, etc.

This should provide enough material for several shows. I hope that
you will consider this and allow the Wings channel to live up to its
promise.

Thank you.

Sincerely, AJ Harris


cc: rec.aviation.piloting
rec.aviation.military

wrote in message
.. .
I must agree with you that the repetitive nature of programming is
beginning
to become a turn-off. I personally would like to see more "recent"
aviation
events. If I wanted that much history I'd switch to the history channel

I do like their new injections of "Learning to Fly" though.

JBaker
PP-ASEL, San Diego

Well, what you guys don't realize is that the 'Discovery Wings' channel
produces very, very, very little of it's own programming. Almost none,
actually. It is owned by the same company that owns the Discovery Channel
(obviously), the Hisory Channel and The Learning Channel. They have almost
zero production budget allocated exclusively to themselves, and compounded
with the fact that they are a brand-new channel, they are left to fill their
programming schedule with off-the-shelf shows that were in fact originally
produced for the History Channel or Discovery or TLC, as well as various
syndicated documentaries that may not have been originally produced for
broadcast at all (the documentary on stealth technology, for example, was
orginally produced by the Pentagon to show congressmen). 'Learning to Fly',
'Celebrity Wings' and I think one other new show are the first productions
to actually be originally created specifically for the channel.

As time goes on, and the popularity of the channel and it's programming
grows, so will it's budget and it's selection of shows. I remember when the
History channel looked very much like Wings does today.




"AJ" wrote in message
om...
This is the text of a letter I sent to the Programming Department at
the Wings Channel. If you have a comment, please be sure to send a
copy to me in case I miss it on the news group. Thanks.

AJ Harris


The letter:

I appreciate what you are trying to do with the Wings Channel.
However, the programming is becoming repetitive and boring. There's
only so much one wants to hear about the Luftwaffe and Alexei Tupolev.

Personally, I would love to see more about the history of the Powder
Puff Derby, Florence "Pancho" Barnes, the use of Soviet women pilots
during their "Great Patriotic War," the Female pilots of the 46th
Taman' Guards Bomber Regiment, etc.

This should provide enough material for several shows. I hope that
you will consider this and allow the Wings channel to live up to its
promise.

Thank you.

Sincerely, AJ Harris


cc: rec.aviation.piloting
rec.aviation.military

I'd like to see more on home building. Its amazing to me how home
builders fabricate parts where the kit falls short. They have one
where a guy (like me) is building an RV with someone who knows what
he's doing. They sometimes run another one where a strange Brit is
building a Chopper. Oh, BTW: American Chopper (motorcycles) kicks butt
too!




(AJ) wrote in message . com...
This is the text of a letter I sent to the Programming Department at
the Wings Channel. If you have a comment, please be sure to send a
copy to me in case I miss it on the news group. Thanks.

AJ Harris


The letter:

I appreciate what you are trying to do with the Wings Channel.
However, the programming is becoming repetitive and boring. There's
only so much one wants to hear about the Luftwaffe and Alexei Tupolev.

Personally, I would love to see more about the history of the Powder
Puff Derby, Florence "Pancho" Barnes, the use of Soviet women pilots
during their "Great Patriotic War," the Female pilots of the 46th
Taman' Guards Bomber Regiment, etc.

This should provide enough material for several shows. I hope that
you will consider this and allow the Wings channel to live up to its
promise.

Thank you.

Sincerely, AJ Harris


cc: rec.aviation.piloting
rec.aviation.military

Good Letter, my complaint on DW channel, and alot of airshows, hobby shops,
etc..etc..is simple...

Why the obsession with Military stuff? To me it is boring.....stuff I
don't relate to, and not about flying, military planes are for
fighting......the official name of the F-15 on the data plate on the
aircraft and in McD drawings is 'Weapons Platform'....not aircraft...

Give me GA and Transport in equal time with the military stuff....


"AJ" wrote in message
om...
This is the text of a letter I sent to the Programming Department at
the Wings Channel. If you have a comment, please be sure to send a
copy to me in case I miss it on the news group. Thanks.

AJ Harris


The letter:

I appreciate what you are trying to do with the Wings Channel.
However, the programming is becoming repetitive and boring. There's
only so much one wants to hear about the Luftwaffe and Alexei Tupolev.

Personally, I would love to see more about the history of the Powder
Puff Derby, Florence "Pancho" Barnes, the use of Soviet women pilots
during their "Great Patriotic War," the Female pilots of the 46th
Taman' Guards Bomber Regiment, etc.

This should provide enough material for several shows. I hope that
you will consider this and allow the Wings channel to live up to its
promise.

Thank you.

Sincerely, AJ Harris


cc: rec.aviation.piloting
rec.aviation.military

Garrett wrote:

Good Letter, my complaint on DW channel, and alot of airshows, hobby shops,
etc..etc..is simple...

Why the obsession with Military stuff? To me it is boring.....stuff I
don't relate to, and not about flying, military planes are for
fighting......the official name of the F-15 on the data plate on the
aircraft and in McD drawings is 'Weapons Platform'....not aircraft...

Give me GA and Transport in equal time with the military stuff....


I agree with this. Am I the only person who would like to see them do
more shows on types of aircraft you don't often see, like commuter
turboprops, charters, etc.

I'd like to clarify one thing -- My original letter to the Wings
Channel (which was given a perfunctory "Thanks for writing, but we're
too busy to reply") was written because I feel the network has an
unhealthy fascination with planes that kill. An occasional show about
bush pilots and their planes, the use of planes on ranches and for
humanitarian aid, etc., would be very welcome.

Besides, I still find the Luftwaffe and Alexei Tupolev old news.

AJ