Look guys, I haven't said anything much about MA finances since in my mind MA is merely another tool that AMA uses to increase its hold on the model aviation community...therefore I see MA and AMA as one all inclusive package indivisible by the other.

In my mind AMA uses the power (money) of its membership base to provide a magazine that other publications can hardly compete with. (one of the longer threads on RCU is about RCM…)

Now, some will see this as promotion of the hobby and others will disagree…the difference will reside in gullibility or blind allegiance IMO. We probably all know of at least one fellow that says you should “fly blind the AMA way”…or something like that, such as some guy does at that other site…but I think AMA may have him on the payroll…so he doesn’t count for much but I think he has some empty head followers though.

Bottom line, AMA and MA are inseparable and it is the bigger picture that we should focus on. While we focus on this bit of minutia, bigger moves are being made in the name of MAP (model aviation promotion) by, but for AMA.