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Would most flying fields exist today without AMA?


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Absolutely not.

Master Bowles said it as well as it needs saying. However !!!!

Without AMA Pres. Johnny Clemens pursuing the insurance program, the AMA would have collapsed. Insurance and the resurgence (from the insurance) of the Charter Club program, provided the "strength through numbers" which allowed AMA to survive the '70s.
Had AMA failed, the current frequencies would never have come into being. The RC suppliers were having trouble as the less expensive imports were taking over the US-made market.
None were supporting a change from 7 to 50 frequencies along with narrow-band.
Had the RC car craze not exploded in the '80s, there would not have been adequate profit in the whole RC realm to support the '91 deadline for radios. So don't forget to say "Thank You" to the kid on the street running across your lawn.
Without a few that are ready to work and finance behind the lines, many fields would not exist.
Without the fields, RC's long range would be much less than now.
Without AMA and a competitive program, along with people with VISION and LOVE of SPORT such as Jerry Nelson, Bill Bennett, and several thousand others that simply do for the sake of doing, there would be a whole lot less than there is now.
"No man is an island unto himself." Neither is AMA. It takes all of us.