I somewhat disagree with combatpigg. He is advocating that we lie in ambush and hope an interested person falls into our trap. I would rather see us (the AMA) out making the public aware of model aviation, at local through national levels. Go out and round them up and keep the good ones, so to speak. I do agree that only peculiar people, like you and me, will last and become modelers. But suppose that all the 300 million people in the USA (minus the present day modelers, noise in the census), who know little or nothing about model aviation, became actively aware of model aviation. Suppose one in 10,000 of them pursued the interest. How many new modelers would that be? I think this is what the AMA ought to be up to, and is sadly deficient at the national level.