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Seminar Topics for
AMA Convention 2008
After receiving good feedback from AMA
members who live within a 300-mile radius of
the Ontario, California, area, we will offer
the following seminars at the 2008 AMA
Convention, which will be held January 11-13
at the Ontario Convention Center. Please
note that this is not a complete
list; more seminars are being considered.
• 2008 Tag [Take
off And Grow] Program
• Associate vice
president training
• Selecting an electric
power system for your model
•
Glow-to-electric conversions
• Charging,
using, and storing Li-Poly batteries
•
Covering with plastic/fabric films
• Tuning
and troubleshooting two- and four-stroke
engines
• Setting up helicopters
• Spread spectrum technology and use
MA
—Jack
Frost
Education Department
AMA to Offer
Membership Directory
AMA
has partnered with Harris Connect—one of the
oldest and most respected directory
publishers in the industry—to produce a
register of Academy members. This can be a
great way to catch up with longtime flying
buddies, contact someone, or see who is "top
dog" at flying events.
All AMA members will
receive (or should have received) a letter
asking if they would like to be included in
the new publication. Listings are free of
charge. The form included with the letter
will give members the opportunity to supply
data they would like to have published, such
as their activity in the sport, family
information, etc. They can even include as
many as two photos.
If Academy members don't
want to be listed, they can do nothing and
no contact information whatsoever will be
included in the directory. Or they can check
option 4 on the form, indicating that they don't want to participate, and return it.
AMA members will be able to purchase the directory in
printed and/or digital form. It will be
available in spring 2008.
MA
—AMA Headquarters
Now
Available:
Foam-Core Wing Sets
The AMA Plans Service is expanding its
horizons to offer foam-core wing sets for
plans from MA construction features
whose designs feature that type of wing. The
cores are manufactured, from high-quality
white foam, using a computerized foam-wing
cutter. Please allow two to three weeks for
delivery—longer for overseas.
Wing cores
for designs other than those that have been
published in MA magazine can be quoted on a
per-plans basis. For ordering assistance
call (765) 287-1256, extension 507.
And don't forget the more than 16,000 model plans
available from the AMA Plans Service that
are just waiting to be built. Somewhere in
our collection are the plans for the
airplane you always wanted to build.
MA
—AMA Plans Service
Welcome,
AMA Life Members!
The Academy recently welcomed new Life
Members Walt Fletcher (Saint George UT) and
George Precella (Boulder CO). For
information about becoming a Life Member,
contact AMA Headquarters at (800) 435-9262. MA
—AMA Membership Department
Also in this month's
In the Air section in
Model Aviation:
• 25
Years Ago in MA: November 1982
• Information for Turbine Waiver Holders
• AMA Remembers Dr.
Paul MacCready
•
Tuskegee Airman
Strikes a Chord at AMA
• DSS Delivers Fun and Safe Flying at IRCHA
Jamboree
• Great Planes Acquires Carl Goldberg Models
and Lanier RC
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