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2003 Membership Meeting
The AMA Annual Membership Meeting
will be held in conjunction with the 2003
Toledo Show, presented by the Weak
Signals Radio Control club, which will take
place April 4-6 at the SeaGate Center (401
Jefferson Ave., Toledo OH).
The meeting will be held Saturday, April
5, from 4:00 to 4:30 p.m. in the ballroom of
the Radisson Hotel (adjacent to the SeaGate
Center). For more information, stop by the
AMA booth at the show. To learn more
about the Toledo Show, go to
www.toledoshow.com. MA
—AMA HQ
MA Cover Contest Winners
More than 50 submissions were received
for the 2002 Model Aviation Cover Contest.
The staff of Model Aviation would like to
thank all of the readers who participated.
Six winners were selected. They are (in no
particular order): Jim Caparelli of San Jose
CA, Kirk Voclain of Houma LA, Marcus D.
Moon of Burleson TX, Ken Estes of
Lakewood CA, Ken Johnson of Sylmar CA,
and David Garwood of Scotia NY.
The cover submissions selected as
winners can be found by going to Model
Aviation Online at
www.modelaircraft.org/mag/index.htm.
Go online to see what the winning entries
look like and read more about each
submission.
The staff can make no guarantee about
when these submissions will appear on the
cover of Model Aviation, although the goal
is to use them within the next three years.
A prize of $200 will be awarded for each
winning entry. MA
—MA staff
Hitec Field and Track
Improvement Awards
The 10 winners of the $1,000 2002 Hitec
Field and Track Improvement awards have
been chosen. This year Hitec received more
than 100 requests for grants. Hitec thanks all
the members of the great clubs and
organizations who work hard at providing a
place for modelers to fly.
The following AMA chartered clubs were
among those listed as winners of the Hitec
Field and Track Improvement Fund:
Alexandria R/C Flyers (Miltona MN),
Coachella Valley R/C Club (Bermuda Dunes
CA), Boerne Area Model Society (Boerne
TX), Oswego Valley Modelaires, Inc.
(Hannibal NY), Ithaca Radio Control Society
(Ithaca NY), and Wyoming Modelers Park
Association (Riverton WY). MA
—Glen Merritt
Hitec USA Marketing Director
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All Because of Model
Airplanes at Smithsonian
Segments of AMA’s video All Because of
Model Airplanes will be featured in a display
as part of the Smithsonian National Museum
of American History’s Lemelson Center for
the Study of Invention and Innovation.
A traveling exhibit about invention and
play will visit science centers and museums
throughout North America beginning in early
2003. This exhibit brings a fresh perspective to
the topic of invention, exploring the marked
similarities between the ways children play
and the creative processes used by innovators
in science and technology.
To view the schedule for a display location
near you, please check www.asct.org
exhibitions/invention/iinvention.html. MA
—Tom Schwyn
AMA Marketing/Public Relations
New Life Members
The Academy of Model Aeronautics
recently welcomed new Life Members Ralph
Salgado (L411), Benjamin Diss (L412), Ben
Kirk (L237), Richard Stinson (L1776),
Michael D. Wyman (L777), Roger L. Brining
(L718), K. Matney (L944), William L. Lubke
(L898), Paul Maharis (L386), Andrew Greig
(L502), Monte Richardson (L536), Ignacio T.
Aranguren (L457), Michael P. Wingo (L678),
Nicholas Lantoneli (L449), Roy Hulse (L431),
Christopher Gomez (L580), and Michael S.
Lineberger (L244).
For information about becoming a Life
Member, contact AMA Headquarters at (800)
435-9262. MA
—Membership Department
License Cards
We apologize for the delay in getting
renewal license cards to members. The cards
and decals took a full six weeks to be delivered
to AMA Headquarters. Because of the volume
of renewals received by that time, printing the
cards became a lengthy process. MA
—AMA Membership Department
John Pond Plans
AMA has purchased the John Pond plans
service. This collection encompasses more
than 13,000 model-airplane plans, including
Radio Control, Control Line, and Free Flight.
Also included are 1,600 engine drawings.
This acquisition followed extensive
discussion concluding that the historical value
of this collection was significant enough to
justify the expense of purchasing the plans.
Many of the old-time kit plans are considered
priceless.
The Pond collection has been delivered to
AMA Headquarters at the International
Aeromodeling Center in Muncie IN. An
inventory is currently being conducted, and a
committee has been formed to study possible
options concerning the plans. In addition, the
committee will review the entire AMA Plans
Service operation to determine the best and
most cost-efficient method to organize,
archive, and offer model-airplane plans to the
membership.
Academy officials are hopeful that the
Pond plans will be made available to the
membership in the near future. However, no
decisions have been made concerning how the
plans will be incorporated into the existing
plans service, nor has a timetable been
established.
The newly formed committee will work
diligently with the staff of the National Model
Aviation Museum to see that an overall plan is
drafted in a timely manner to present to the
Executive Council at the February 2003
meeting.
For more information, contact Museum
Curator Michael Smith at michaels@
modelaircraft.org. MA
—AMA HQ