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Open Forum / Re: AMA Dues
« Last post by Steve Helmick on July 16, 2025, 10:25:42 AM »
How do they get a 7 digit number 1" tall on a small plane without totally wrecking the trim?  LL~

Ken

The average AMA member (i.e., R/C Sport Flier) could care less about the trim scheme of his ARF and probably won't buy another after the first one is destroyed.   S?P Steve
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Open Forum / Re: Team trials location and dates?
« Last post by Dave_Trible on July 16, 2025, 10:06:21 AM »
Sacramento,  California.  Dates unknown.   Likely around Labor Day.  This came out of a meeting of those concerned during the Nats.  Bob Hunt is acting as co-ordinator.   

Dave
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Classifieds / Re: Assortment of Control Line Items for sale
« Last post by Robert Zambelli on July 16, 2025, 09:33:01 AM »
Some stuff that I put on eBay.

McCoy 29 rear intake speed engine - check it out, it's only bid to $1.00!
Paasche airbrush
BRAND NEW Dyna Jet
Fox 36X - very good condition, runs perfectly, excellent compression. In original box with instructions.
Box of six Johnson Core Cable lines - .015 x 70 ft.

My seller nickname is clnut.
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Open Forum / Re: Team trials location and dates?
« Last post by Matt Curtis on July 16, 2025, 09:09:01 AM »
Any more news on  when and where this will happen?
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Open Forum / Re: AMA Dues
« Last post by Ken Culbertson on July 16, 2025, 08:14:29 AM »
I joined somewhere around 1959, my memory storage doesn't work reliably that far back.  They were sequential back then.  Somewhere they started reusing then they went to 6 and I have seen 7 digits.  When I see one of those long numbers I feel sorry for them.  I was very lucky to get my 5 digit number back after a layout, I lost my 4.  BUT, 15382 has NO repeat numbers!  How do they get a 7 digit number 1" tall on a small plane without totally wrecking the trim?  LL~

Ken
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Open Forum / Re: 2025 Nats Qualification Groups, scores and final reports
« Last post by Dave_Trible on July 16, 2025, 07:33:12 AM »
I'd like to see the 4 category system come back.   If some think the 40 points is too much -which might have been the reason it was shelved in the first place- then reduce the four categories mentioned to just 5 points each.  It would carry the same weight it does now but become a little more than just a finishing contest.   When the rule was changed back when it took away much of the incentive to design new airplanes and largely killed semi-scale in favor of more cookie cutter types.  Someone would need to write up a rules proposal and submit it to see what happens......

Dave
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Classifieds / Re: Assortment of Control Line Items for sale
« Last post by Dan McEntee on July 16, 2025, 07:14:10 AM »
    Just sent you a PM regarding the OS parts.

  Thanks!
  Dan McEntee
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Open Forum / Re: 2025 Nats Qualification Groups, scores and final reports
« Last post by Dan McEntee on July 16, 2025, 07:04:55 AM »

Bring back the 40-point rule, and all is moot. Building a plane for most takes a year, so why would it not be worth the same range of scoring for one maneuver?

Orinanility -10
Realizem -10
Craftsmanship -10
Finish -10


    And maybe throw in some bonus points for spelling and grammar!!! LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~

   Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee
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Open Forum / Re: AMA Dues
« Last post by Dan McEntee on July 16, 2025, 07:02:51 AM »
 I joined the AMA in 1975 and was issued 28784, without really knowing much about how the issued the numbers. Somewhere along the line, after a few years, some one commented to me, " Boy !, you must be old to have a 5 digit AMA number that low!!" And that kind of offended me!!  And it was my first look into AMA numbers and their history! I'm thinking my number was a reissue, because several others I know that joined about the same time were all in the 3xxxxrange or even 6 digits.

  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee
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Open Forum / Re: The Air Derby
« Last post by Dan McEntee on July 16, 2025, 06:56:54 AM »
  Yeah, it's a Bub!!  I watched it again fairly recently and it's from early on in the series. Both Bub and Uncle Charlie were played by great character actors of the time. The Dad, Steve Douglas, was supposed to be an aeronautical engineer, and that was at least one other episode that I remember that was aviation related. I think it was the oldest son, Mike, wanted to learn how to fly so he could fly a Nieuport 28 that belonged to a visiting older man that was a WW-I pilot or something like that, and the Dad knew the difficulties of flying the old biplanes powered by a rotary engine and that set the scene for the scene for the episode. I probably haven't seen that one since I was a kid so I'm not real sure of the synopsis. I'll have to see if that can be dug up on YouTube. Another one I would like to revisit is the episode of Hazel, starring Shirley Booth, and the son in that series was involved in a C/L contest similar to the My Three Sons episode. Been a long time since I saw that also. I think there were at least two episodes of Lassie that had plastic RTF models in them?

  Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee
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