The Southern Tier Aero Radio Society, founded in 1935 as the Olean Model Airplane Club, is easily one of the oldest clubs in the United States.. pre-dating the entire AMA by a full year.  STARS, as it is now known, was instrumental in helping to develop the Giant Scale model aircraft movement in the mid 1970’s and achieved national fame with magazine articles and covers showing their 1/4 scale Bristol Scouts, which launched the Giant Scale revolution.  The STARS has received numerous awards and recognitions including the Historic Preservation Award, the Award of Excellence and has been an AMA Gold Leader Club since the 1990’s.  Their club field features both grass and geo-textile runways, a spectator fence, a covered open-air pavilion and a pilot shelter.

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The Torrey Pines Gulls, one of the first AMA Chartered clubs dedicated solely to RC soaring, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Gulls operate three fields in San Diego County:  The Torrey Pines Gliderport in La Jolla, the Poway Flight Center in Poway and Encinitas Flight Center in Encinitas; all used for various disciplines of soaring such as thermal, wench, discus launch and of course slope soaring. They have played host to the International Hand Launch Glider Festival for 25 years and helped in the development of FAI F3K as an aeromodeling discipline. 

Joining us on the AMA Podcast today to talk about the Gulls is club president Ian Cummings and club historian Gary Fogel.

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On today's episode, we're sharing one from the archives!  This is a presentation from AMA Expo 2010 by non other than world renowned aerospace designer, Burt Rutan.  Burt shares some incredible stories about designing Space Ship One as well as his long history of innovative designs and risk-taking projects.  If you'd like to see the video of this presentation, you can check out modelaircraft.org/expotop10 for this and other amazing presentations from AMA Expo.

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In this rebroadcast of episode 9, we talk with Lee Ray and Fitz Walker from the RC Roundtable podcast. They talk about how they got started in modeling, how they met, the origins of the RC Roundtable, and just where is Terry Dunn!

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October 2020's Club of the Month is the Greater St. Louis Modeling Association, and club secretary Jeff Young joins the show to talk about GSLMA and how they interact with their local government and community.

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This week on the podcast, former space shuttle commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson helps celebrate the start of Model Aviation Build Month!  Hoot walks through some of the unique build projects he's been working on, including a Convair Pogo!  Learn more about Model Aviation Build Month by visiting https://www.modelaircraft.org/ibuildama.

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Last week, we discussed the joint letter written by AMA, AOPA, EAA, and Wing that was sent to the FAA in response to proposed Remote ID regulations. This week, lifelong modeler and CTO of Wing, Adam Woodworth, and Wing Public Policy representative, Ben Brooks, join the show to talk about their view on how the proposed Remote ID rules could affect model aviation.

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Read Wing's Remote ID NPRM comment summary and full comment to the FAA

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This week, Government Affairs Director Tyler Dobbs joins the podcast to talk about some recent developments, including a joint letter written by AMA, EAA, AOPA and Google's sister company, Wing. 

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September is upon us and we have a new club of the month!  Alan Friedman of the Casa Grande RC Flyers club joins the show to talk about his club and how they work hand in hand with their local community.

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