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September 2008 Issue

 

Have You Cast Your Vote Yet?


This issue of the AMA Insider
will reach your E-mail inbox shortly before AMA’s annual election season. Offices up for election this year include vice presidents in Districts III, VII, and XI, as well as a national election for Executive Vice President (EVP). Additionally, this year there is also a special election in District II to fill the vacancy created when I was elected president. 

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Safety Incident Reporting


What is a model airplane pilot’s worst nightmare? To me, it is the sight of a model aircraft out of control, or with no radio response, heading for a parking lot or spectator area filled with people. 
 

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Fun-Fly Idea for Your Club


Need a new idea for your club’s Fun Fly? Here is an idea for an event called the Bean Counter from the Prop Masters R/C Aero Club of Downers Grove, Illinois.

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Just One Vote

by Jim Cherry, AMA Executive Director

Soon all current AMA members will be receiving their 2009 membership renewal notices and 2009 election ballots. In a cost-saving effort, the renewal notices and election ballots will be mailed together. The ballot will be a postage-paid postcard to encourage members to participate in the elections.
 

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From the Pikes Peak Soaring Society, Inc, Colorado Springs, Colorado

A Lifetime of Balsa Glue and Dreams

by Bob Shernick

When one gets to the age of being qualified as an old fogey, there comes a time when you start to reminisce about how you got started in this hobby and what it was that kept you so interested for all those many years.

 

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