Model helicopters have taken to the sky above the AMA International Aeromodeling Center (IAC) in Muncie, Indiana. The competition includes teams from 11 countries, all vying for a chance to prove that they are the best in the FAI F3C/N World Championships for Model Helicopters. Team USA includes Tom Dooley, […]
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20 Years Ago: Maynard Hill’s TAM 5 Conquers the Atlantic
Twenty years ago, AMA member Maynard Hill and a team of supporters accomplished the unthinkable—they successfully crossed the Atlantic flying an RC model airplane. This flight has never been duplicated. The aircraft, known as the Spirit of Butt’s Farm, took five attempts (the reference to TAM-5) to make the journey […]
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AMA Continues to Accept and Submit FRIA Applications
As the deadline for Remote ID approaches (September 16, 2023), we are receiving a lot of status update requests for FAA-Recognized Identification Area (FRIA) applications. The AMA FRIA team is reviewing and processing FRIA submissions on a first come, first served basis. Please understand that it can take anywhere from […]
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Interview with Joyce Hager
Interview by Rob Kurek, AMA Communications Director We recently sat down with Joyce Hager, AMA’s longest-tenured employee and asked her to reflect on her time working for the organization. She officially retires August 4, 2023. We were located in a one-bedroom apartment located at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C. I […]
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More World Championships on the Horizon
Join us as we wish the best for US teams for FAI F1E Free Flight Slope Soaring Gliders (Denmark) and FAI F3DE Pylon Racing (Netherlands), both of which begin competition today. Later this week, competition begins for FAI F3CN Model Helicopters at the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana. The […]
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Us Teams Head to Romania and the Netherlands
AMA wishes the US FAI F1E Free Flight (FF) and FAI F3D Pylon teams safe travels and good luck, as they head to Romania and the Netherlands, respectively. Team USA for FF is: Robert Sifleet, K. Peter Brocks, and Geralyn Jones. Team USA for Pylon is: William Neamura, Paul Gibeault, […]
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AMA’s Longest Tenured Employee Retires After 53 Years
Joyce Hager, who has held nearly every position AMA Headquarters has staffed to include executive director, is retiring next month after 53 years. It is not a stretch to say she probably knows more AMA members than any other single person in the organization. Many she met at trade shows […]
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100th Anniversary Win
Hope Finn, of Mauk, GA, is the winner of the 2023 Free Flight (FF) Mulvihill competition! Hope puts her name in the history books by taking the top prize in the 100th anniversary year of the first Nats competition. Hope is pictured with her winning aircraft as well as a […]
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IAC Set for the 2024 Solar Eclipse
By Matt Ruddick, AMA Creative director IN AUGUST 2017, many throughout the contiguous US were treated to an event that hadn’t been seen in the lower 48 states since February 1979: a total solar eclipse. The path of totality stretched from the Oregon coast, through the Great Plains, and out […]
Continue readingRC Models are the Ancestors of Today’s Most Impressive Robots
By Tom Atwood Executive Director, The National Robotics Education Foundation, www.The-NREF.org Contributing Editor, Model Airplane News Membership, Air Age Media, http://membership.modelairplanenews.com We live at a time when robots are multiplying exponentially, amidst an explosion of nano-electronics and AI technology, and one can rightfully say that these machines are all direct descendants of […]
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