ORIGINAL: combatpigg
Bob, outside of mailing out forms to contest directors and making provisions at the Nats, I'm not aware of any specially allocated money that AMA passes out to the various categories of modeling? When control line was on a death watch 20 years ago, I never heard about any AMA funds allocated to give it a boost. Same goes for 1/2A now.
Either this stuff can stand on its' own merits or it's time to wave by-by.
It's just a matter of whether AMA revenue and expenses are in balance for the various interest areas. It's my opinion that for those area with lower numbers of member participation (read less revenue from dues), that AMA is probably spending more in it's support of those activities than it may be receiving in revenue. If that's the case, then those areas are being "subsidized" just as PPP is as a result of it's start-up costs.