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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AMA Members Set New National Records
To go farther, faster, higher—these are just some of the goals that foster competition among our members. While many members fly for fun, others want to push the boundaries as to what is possible. No doubt, competition drives innovation in model aviation. Both national and world records are set by […]
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National Fun Fly, Annual Membership Meeting Conclude
Fun, friends and fellowship—with an Annual Membership Meeting and AMA Foundation luncheon included—best describes the 2023 National Fun Fly (NFF). Nearly 100 members traveled from across the country to participate and share in the camaraderie of model aviation flying. “I feel the National Fun Fly was a huge success with […]
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The Navy Nats
Many members may not know that there was a time the Nats were supported by the US Navy. For those members who participated in those Nats, the fond memories and stories remain. Between 1948 and 1972, the US Navy allowed the AMA to hold Nats competitions on its’ Naval Air […]
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