MA

Coast to coast in thirty days. A hundred miles a day-two hours each day averaging 50 miles per hour. Equivalent to eight fifteen minute flights on a Sunday afternoon-not for everybody but well within the capability of many. With some added touches: do it from a car riding along the highway, and do it day after day for a month. It can happen in '76 if current thinking by many members of the Academy of Model Aeronautics develops as anticipated. Born of a brainstorm when AMA President Johnny Clemens had to spend many hours in a hospital bed, the idea has come alive in the minds of many others who have become excited about the possibilities.