Flying Site Assistance - 2003/11
CORRECTION: In my September 2003 column, I ran an article
titled “The Forever Field.” This article was written by Ed Rouisse, an
FSA volunteer in Clearwater, Florida.
Flying Site Assistance - 2010/06
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection
Agency (EPA) sponsored a Webinar
seminar, “Taking to the Superfund Skies,”
for a look at AMA and the EPA Superfund
Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) Partnership.
The seminar was hosted by the EPA and
National Program Manager Melissa
Friedland and I were asked to participate.
Melissa began the presentation by
discussing SRI’s partnership with AMA.
The LEGENDARY SHOESTRING GOES PYLON RACING - 2011/04
THE SHOESTRING has always been my
favorite RC model. I’ve worn out at least six
of them powered with four-stroke .91
engines, and I built a 41% version, powered
with a 3W-85EI gas engine, that weighed
almost 37 pounds.
AMA News Flying Site Assistance - 2009/06
Flying site opportunity in Kane County, Illinois
There is a recently closed landfill
where the stake owner is interested in
designating an area for model flying. It is
owned by Kane County, Illinois, and
operated by Waste Management.
AMA News: Flying Site Assistance - 2008/02
ON FEBRUARY 10, 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) formed a partnership with AMA to support communities
interested in flying model airplanes on cleaned-up Superfund sites.
The details of this are described in the AMA document How to
Explore EPA Superfund Sites as Possible Model Aircraft Flying
Fields.
