by Jay Marsh | May 10, 2015 | District Accomplishments, District News
Way to go Jeff! Jeff Foley from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina EARNED second place at this year’s Top Gun competition held in Lakeland, Florida. Jeff is also the district website author on scale.
by Jay Marsh | May 10, 2015 | District Accomplishments, District News
Congratulations to James Taylor, fondly known as JT, for receiving the Carl & Beth Goldberg Vital Person Award. He is a member of the Raleigh Aero Masters in Raleigh, NC. This award is presented annually to a fellow modeler, whose efforts enhance the enjoyment of the hobby and whose accomplishments are seldom formally acknowledged. JT is one such fellow. Here is a comment from his club. “JT is one of the most humble, knowledgeable, friendly RC loving individuals we have ever met. He is a true ambassador to the RC flying...
by Jay Marsh | May 9, 2015 | District Communications, District News
The long awaited release of the FAA NPRM with rules for the use of sUAS, was presented at a press conference Sunday February 15th at 10:30am EST. Initially it looks to be very favorable toward hobby and recreation. Below is an email from Dave Mathewson, the Executive Director of AMA, and a link to the response to members by AMA. Big thanks to Rich Hanson, Dave Mathewson and the AMA staff for the fine and hard work they have put in representing you, the member’s right to fly. DISTRICT IV is on FACEBOOK! Look us up and Like us at Academy of Model Aeronautics,District IV, https://www.facebook.com/amadistrictIV, and then stay up to date on what’s happening in the district and nationally. The New District Website is taking shape and we have a new Webmaster. Welcome Jack Upchurch, who can be reached at webmaster@ama-d4.org . We are in need of some volunteers in the areas of RC and others to create and maintain pages on the new site. If you think it would be something that you would like to do and have some knowledge about websites then let me know. Thanks go out to Steve Moulton, who has hung in there for a long, long time as our current Webmaster and is still maintaining our old website at www.amadistrictiv.org It’s too COLD outside to go fly so I hope everyone is getting their projects done so we can go have some fun when the weather breaks. Look on our Facebook page for events happening this year and post your own. The district is pushing for bigger and more events so...
by Jay Marsh | May 9, 2015 | District News, District Reports in Model Aviation
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