Jaybird

Really? When's the last time you had a 2 pound "bug" with lots of hard plastic and sharp metal parts smack your windshield as you were moving along at 70 miles an hour down the highway? When's the last time you had an RC model of any kind (air, water or ground) hit you at full speed while you were standing still?

Jaybird

init4fun

Yea , our buddy Sport seems to harbor this far FAR out there notion that an aircraft in flight is an armored fortress that you could bounce a Volkswagen off the nose of , and end up with two halves of Bug and a perfectly intact airplane .

Those of us who know better have tried to council him , but as yet to no avail .........

Granpooba

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NEVER !! But I lived in Maine and was stationed at Dow Air Force Base. Realized that anything can happen in Maine. LOL

Just kidding, buddy ! Love the state and still have many friends there.

porcia83

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Amazing to still see the blame game being played, and pointed at a completely wrong party. Do you really think all of this happening is because of a few errant drone pilots? The commercialization of these has nothing to do with it at all? How that can facet be overlooked?

porcia83

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Not a bad idea, we have a fictional character's chair already there (Archie Bunker)...so why not a drone?

combatpigg

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When a single facepalm just isn't enough..........

franklin_m

Who comes up with moronic tag lines like "Drones are good?" If the AMA paid someone for that, they should ask for a refund.

rcmiket

Ya think? That's embarrassing.

Mike

porcia83

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Feel free to ask for refunds...meanwhile, your suggestions would be.........what?

Also...are they not good in any way, or will be still be clinging to the DRONE=BAD theme for the foreseeable future?

Meanwhile, here they are doing more repulsive things...oh the horror!

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/these-dron...ook-1774340050

52larry52

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"They (AMA) should ask for a refund"??? Maybe "WE" (model airplane flying members) should ask for a refund !!

52larry52

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Right after posting my knee jerk reaction "We should ask for a refund" remark above, I went to the AMA site and couldn't find anything about a "National Drone Day" or the " drones are good" logo. Have I just been had or are they for real? Where did this information come from?

combatpigg

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Well...if this is a prank, then that would restore some of my faith in the AMA... microscopically.

rcmiket

http://www.modelaircraft.org/


http://www.internationaldroneday.com/




Front page of the AMA website. kinda hard to miss.

Mike

RC Pilot 007

same pity party every thred

anyone still fly? i try go out every week to club field

raptureboy

THAT'S IT! It was right before us in plain site. The whole thing is a big government plot. They knew that is they could just spook us all a little we would all spend our time on forums, *itching over the drones and regulations and stop flying altogether. Dang, how could I have been so fooled. I better get my planes and head for the field before everyone else figures it out and then I will have to fight for a parking spot.

Jaybird

It's a banner ad and only shows for a few seconds before flipping to the next ad. If you wait for it, it will come around to view.

Jaybird

porcia83

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You can do that, and then quit the AMA too. I think more than one person has requested a refund from the AMA and they issued it. Why be part of something so horrible.

Granpooba

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Its on the AMA page that was just emailed to me. It is right above ......... Buy an AMA Flag. Yea right like that is going to happen. Snowball in hell stands a better chance of staying frozen.

52larry52

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Yea, it's for real! I didn't find it last night on the AMA web site (Jaybird says it only shows for a few seconds) but like Grandpooba, I got it on an AMA email this afternoon!! There it is, straight from the CBO, "National Drone Day May 7th" & "Drones are good" on an AMA logo. Wow! Boy are we shooting ourselves in the foot, no, make that "both feet" as we now don't have a leg to stand on trying to separate ourselves from from the problem, DRONES. And yes, I will fly this weekend but it will be a couple of model AIRPLANES not some G/D DRONE. Gota a Cub and an Extra 300 and maybe a Cessna on the "needs to be flown" list. Cheers & smooth flying to all.

porcia83

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Don't forget your Warbird...gotta have a P-51 in there somewhere right?

cj_rumley

Not really any news here, Larry. More like a statement by Dronz R Us outing themselves for those that had not yet caught on to what their new orientation is. Expect the drone crap is gonna get deeper henceforth.

porcia83

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Ya...at the end of the AMA it would be better for the AMA to completely ignore the biggest thing happening in the hobby over the past 4 years. Great plan for them, why not focus on Nitro powered scratch built warbirds, those are a big hit now right? Or perhaps some nice free flight models, or better yet control line, that's all the rage this year.

Amazing to watch the collective resistance to change. At least in some places.

CESSNA 421

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Here is a story out of St. Louis.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/drone...ters/167104711

I guess this is something the AMA will try and "White Wash" away.

rcmiket

Remember "DRONES ARE GOOD"

Mike

franklin_m

I suppose they were too busy to notice, after all they had to take care of their top priority - appropriating $100K for their personal flying field in Muncie