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NatsNews is
Back for 2006!
AMA launched the 80th National
Aeromodeling Championships (Nats)—the world's largest model-aviation event—May
31, 2006, in Johnson City, Tennessee, with Indoor FF activity. Outdoor action at
the International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, Indiana, begins July 4.
More than 1,000 participants are expected to fill the skies
with virtually every form of flying model imaginable. For a schedule and more
information about this thrilling contest that covers six weeks and comprises
more than 165 separate events, go to
www.modelaircraft.org/events/.
If you would like to follow the
Nats as it unfolds, sign up now for AMA's daily electronic newsletter—NatsNews—which
is available free to all members. To subscribe, go to
www.modelaircraft.org/subscribe.aspx and complete the online form. You will
receive a daily E-mail with a link to the newsletter. Or you can bookmark
www.natsnews.org; the newsletter begins
May 31.
NatsNews covers day-to-day events in a
bold style that will bring the event to life on your computer screen. Expect
scores, photos, and blow-by-blow descriptions of the action, in addition to a
behind-the-scenes look at the participants and the technology they bring with
them to win one of the oldest and most prestigious model-airplane contests
today.
If you can't be there but wish you could be, check
out NatsNews online! MA
—Publications Department
New Giant Scale Racing Safety
Rules
At its April 29, 2006, meeting
the AMA Executive Council (EC) approval changes to the "Required Safety
Standards for Giant Scale Racing." The Unlimited Scale Racing Association
proposed the changes, which were recommended to the EC by AMA's Safety
Committee.
You may access the updated safety standards at
www.modelaircraft.org/PDF-files/515-A.pdf. MA
—Carl
Maroney
Special Service Director
Welcome, AMA Life Members!
The Academy recently welcomed new
Life Members James Kennicker (Saint Petersburg FL), John Root (Sylvania OH),
Robert Cunningham (Gibraltar MI), and Kenneth Petersen (Fort Collins CO).
For information about becoming a Life Member, contact AMA
Headquarters at (800) 435-9262. MA
—Membership Department
Also in this month's
In the Air section in
Model Aviation:
• Meet Author H.L.
Schreiner During the Nats
• "Come Fly with Us" Sweepstakes Grand Prize Winner Announced!
• 2006 Flying Site Grant
Winners
• Programs That Get Kids
Flying
• Modeling Icon Receives AMA Fellowship Award
• AMA Represents Members
Before Subcommittee
• Twenty-Five Years Ago in MA: July 1981
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