{"id":145,"date":"2016-05-15T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/?p=145"},"modified":"2016-09-22T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:03:39","slug":"ama-district-ix-news-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/2016\/05\/15\/ama-district-ix-news-june-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA District IX News June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the help <\/span>of the AMA staff, we\u00a0have a new District IX website that is\u00a0part of the AMA website. Go to www.\u00a0amadistrict-ix.org and take a look. Just\u00a0being associated with the AMA website\u00a0is a bonus.<\/p>\n

The site was created in WordPress,\u00a0so it should be easier to post current\u00a0information and events. Send your\u00a0club\u2019s note, poster, or listing to me or\u00a0your associate vice president (AVP), and\u00a0we will post it on our District IX site.\u00a0It is still a work in progress, so let me\u00a0know what you think.<\/p>\n

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Austin Axmann from Kansas City, Missouri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to your generosity, we are\u00a0able to send another District IX flier\u00a0to Camp AMA this June. This year\u2019s\u00a0scholarship recipient is Austin Axmann\u00a0from Kansas City, Missouri. Austin is a\u00a0member of the R\/C Barnstormers club\u00a0and was nominated by Troy Hamm.\u00a0Troy says Austin is not only a budding\u00a0young flier, but a tremendous asset to\u00a0the Barnstomers with his strong work\u00a0and volunteer ethics.<\/p>\n

The $800 camp tuition and a travel\u00a0stipend will be your gift to this fine\u00a0young RC ambassador. Congratulations,\u00a0Austin.<\/p>\n

In the years that I have served AMA,\u00a0promoting youth in this hobby has been\u00a0a paramount theme for me, and I am\u00a0always gratified to see how many of you\u00a0share the same spirit of encouragement\u00a0and support for young fliers in our area.<\/p>\n

One longstanding event in District\u00a0IX, that always draws a crowd is the\u00a0Sodbuster\u2019s Auction in Sioux Falls,\u00a0South Dakota. This year there were\u00a0more than 260 items for sale and\u00a0about 100 bidders. One secret of this\u00a0auction\u2019s success is auctioneer Ron\u00a0Wyhre. Ron has been donating his time on this endeavor for more than 6 years.\u00a0His expertise and wry humor keep the\u00a0process moving and engage the buyers.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Sodbuster President Tim\u00a0Mallat and all the club members for the\u00a0wonderful hospitality. I tell my long suffering\u00a0wife, Judi, that my goal is to\u00a0always come home with fewer things\u00a0than I take. Her look of distain at the\u00a0pile of \u201cbargains\u201d I couldn\u2019t do without\u00a0would tell you how that turned out,\u00a0once again.<\/p>\n

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District IX Vice President Jim Tiller presents Max
Hanson with a Lifetime Distinguished Service
award at the Sodbuster Auction in Sioux Falls SD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Max has served as an AVP for South\u00a0Dakota and been an active volunteer for\u00a0all things AMA for too many years to\u00a0count. Thanks, Max, for all that you do.<\/p>\n

I attended The Toledo Show: R\/C Model\u00a0Expo this year, and one big highlight\u00a0was meeting Sal Calvagna. Sal is the\u00a0longtime author of the \u201cGiant Scale\u201d\u00a0column in Model Aviation, and I have\u00a0admired his modeling throughout the\u00a0years.<\/p>\n

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Sal Calvagna and his beautiful Sikorsky Ilya
Muromets at the Toledo Show.\"modelaviation201606-ix-03\"<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sal always chooses projects a little\u00a0out of the ordinary. He has done a Me\u00a0163, Mitsubishi A5M, and a Polikarpov\u00a0I-16 to name a few. This year he outdid\u00a0himself with a Sikorsky Ilya Muromets.\u00a0This is an obscure, but important,\u00a0contribution of legendary designer Igor\u00a0Sikorsky. More than 60 flying wires are\u00a0in the tail alone. Sal\u2019s Sikorsky won the\u00a0People\u2019s Choice Award and got my vote.<\/p>\n

The AMA has posted Frequently Asked\u00a0Questions about the FAA registration\u00a0program on the AMA website. The most\u00a0common question I get is whether a club\u00a0should ask for a member\u2019s FAA number\u00a0at an AMA event. I have been a member\u00a0of the Experimental Aircraft Association\u00a0for many years, and no one has asked me\u00a0for my pilot\u2019s license at an EAA event.<\/p>\n

Similarly, I see no reason for your club to\u00a0ask for FAA registration. That is between\u00a0the FAA and the registrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the help of the AMA staff, we\u00a0have a new District IX website that is\u00a0part of the AMA website. Go to www.\u00a0amadistrict-ix.org and take a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-ix-news","tag-faa","tag-eaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amadistrict-ix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}