IMHO. I think a couple of reasons the other modeling organizations failed is one, there just ain't enough modelers to go around and two, AMA and AMA clubs wouldn't allow any members of another organization fly on already created AMA fields, which helped to create the situation in number one. Unlike both SFA and the recently defunct UMA, AMA had strict rules against allowing members of any other organization fly on AMA fields. Like it has been said, there is safety in numbers.

Just supposed SFA, UMA and AMA all started together. Who knows what would've happened then? Just a thought.

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