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130 Model Aviation APRIL 2017 www.ModelAviation.com
Associate Vice Presidents: Tim Attaway, Chula Vista CA; (619) 427-6392; trattaway@cox.net; Forrest Barton, Woodland CA; (530) 383-9019; cbarton328@aol.com; Richard Bonnardel, Kailua
HI, (808) 261-7046 ; rebbfb@hawaii.rr.com; Kurtis Chandler, Phoeniz AZ; (602) 647-8342; azpm@cox.net; Alan Friedman, Eloy AZ; (520) 876-0232; pooralan@aol.com. Dan Johnson, St. George
UT; (435) 619-3112; dk5ajohnson@gmail.com; Kevin Houser, Oro Valley AZ; (520) 490-7657; khouser@rocketfarmers.com; Tim Johnson, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA ; (562) 965-4288; timothy@
johnson.us.com; Mike Lee, Redlands CA; (909) 792-8424; mlee8249@msn.com; Scott Malta, Merced CA; (209) 723-4202; scottmalta@comcast.net; Jim Mohan, Phoenix AZ; (623) 434-1351;
jmohan351@cox.net; Todd Sheridan, Pleasant Grove U T; (801) 358-8345; sheridan.todd@gmail.com; Greg Stone, Laguna Nigel, CA; (949) 413-0920; gstone4@cox.net; Gil Terzo, Las Vegas
NV,; (702) 523-9897; gterzo@aol.com. Peter Vogel, Santa Clara CA; (408) 569-7067; vogel.peter@gmail.com; Roger Willis, Murrieta CA; (951) 249-9688; willisasoc@aol.com. Sanctioned Event
Coordinators: Tim Attaway, Chula Vista CA; (619) 427-6392; trattaway@cox.net; Forrest Barton, Woodland CA; (530) 383-9019; cbarton328@aol.com; Kurtis Chandler (Arizona and Utah), Peoria
AZ; (602) 647-3842; azpm@cox.net; Christopher Sullivan, Waipahu HI; (808) 953-8863; rccombat808@yahoo.com.
Lawrence Tougas
Vice President
District X—Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah
ama.district10@gmail.com
Box 276, Fairfield CA 94533
Tel.: (707) 480-2053; www.ama10.org
April is here, along with Easter. We had
a wet winter and the sun and blossoms
of spring are a welcome site.
You might still have time to submit
Leader Club and AMA Model Aviation
Hall of Fame nominations, due March
31. We have so many great clubs and
individuals in the District. I hope you
take advantage of the opportunity to get
them the recognition they so strongly
deserve. Time is of the essence.
AMA scholarship applications are
due April 30. The AMA awards roughly
$40,000 per year to students. Let’s help
some District X kids pay for college.
It is now only two months until June
and Father’s Day. I am going to dedicate
my June column to remembering our
fathers, father figures, and surrogate
fathers who got us into this wonderful
world of aeromodeling. Please send me
an email with a photo of your loved one
and a brief write-up, and we’ll share
our photos and memories in the June
District X column. Please don’t delay—
put down the magazine and send in your
photos today.
One of the most frequently asked
questions I get is, “How can I get
coverage of our event in the District X
column?”
Really, all it takes is to send it to me.
Put together a write-up of between 400
and 600 words that discusses the event.
Answer the questions of who, what,
where, when, why, and how. In other
words, who put on the event and who
was there, what was done, where was
it held, why was the event put on, and
how did you go about making the event
a success, then the most important thing
is to send in pictures.
Pictures will make or break your story.
I need high-resolution photos, not ones
that are downsized for emailing. If you
need to send them in several emails,
please do. Six good pictures are all that
it takes.
Get photos where the airplane or
person is filling the frame. To get an
interesting photo of an airplane on the
ground, get down low and shoot it so
it looks like a full-scale aircraft. Your
fellow members want to know who is
in the picture, what are they holding,
where are they from, why they choose
that model, and how they made it, so
captions are critical. Did you notice
we were back to answering who, what,
where, why, and how?
Send captions that can be matched
to your photos. I promise you if you
do that, your write-up will make it in
the magazine. If you are thinking about
making a submission, contact me for
more details. You can get publicity for
your event or area of modeling interest,
and I would be happy to help.
Let’s discuss integrating your club into
your community. A good example of
how to do this can be seen by what the
Casa Grande RC Flyers club is doing
in Arizona. When club president and
District X Associate Vice President Alan
Friedman convinced the city to lease the
club some land for
$1 per year, Alan
promised to make
the club an asset to
the community.
The club holds
an annual open
house that attracts
300 or more
people. It chooses
a charity, the
Humane Society,
to partner with and
raise money for.
The event has a lot
of opportunities for
hands-on fun with buddy boxes and a
high-energy air show.
The club also holds a National Model
Aviation Day event, partnering with a
charity—this time a local food bank—to
increase the reach of the event. Club
members write a self-contained article
for the local paper along with photos.
This article is ready made for insertion in
the paper and as a result, gets published
ensuring that they get coverage of these
events, which is critical to letting the
community know the good things they
are doing.
Nancy Friedman, club secretary, along
with her husband, Alan, scheduled
aviation-themed events at the local
high school and 4-H group to give the
students exposure to the basic concepts
of flight such as the three axes of
control: roll, pitch, and yaw. They also
worked together making foam plate
FPG- 9 gliders.
They submitted a write-up and
got coverage of their efforts in the
local paper so their community and
community leaders were aware of their
efforts. Work like this is money in the
bank so that when the club needs help
from the city or is under attack from an
unreasonable neighbor. The club can
point to tangible things it did for the
community and how it is in the city’s
best interest to support the group.
Take a lesson from the Casa Grande
Club and stay involved with your
community. Until next month, I wish
you all nothing but happy landings.
Nancy Friedman leads a Casa Verde High School STEM Academy class,
building FPG- 9 gliders and winning points in her community.
