Originally Posted by
fliers1
To be fair to the AMA top brass, what they were trying to do was essentially out of desperation. They had no other way to bring in the member numbers they so desperately need for their ever declining revenue. There just was no other place to go.
I'm have to to disagree. I don't think AMA was desperate or it was all about money. AMA was at it's peak with a claimed
200,000 members with affiliates when Hanson came out publicly for forced membership. I think AMA having their way
for so long under 336 went to Hanson's head. He believed he was right. He brought it up again the following month in
his column in Model Aviation. It was like Hanson talking to himself and wondering why the FAA didn't agree with him.