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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been reading Do You Speak Model Airplane, The Story of aeromodelling in America, by Dave Thornburg, which I am finding really fascinating and discovered some of the events that happened in the middle of the 1930s seem similar to the events we are experiencing now with the FAA. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In 1922, the Washington based National Aeronautic Association was founded and charged with governing all aviation in America, full-size and model. By 1933 the NAA was issuing model flying licenses. I am not sure how much the NAA had the force of law behind it because I am sure that not even most model flyers had a license. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the early 1930s gas motors were finally being made small enough to be fit in model airplanes. There was a huge divide between the traditional rubber powered modelers and the new gassers. One segment of the rubber powered flyers tried to get a federal ban on gas powered models. In 1937 Connecticut and Massachusetts enacted a gas model ban. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The arguments for the ban were:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1. They are a menace to persons and property<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2. The storing of gasoline in the home is a hazard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>3. Gas modelers trespass and violate the personal and property rights of others<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>4. Gas models are a hazard to full size aircraft. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sound familiar?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Incidentally, the AMA got its start in 1936 because the founding members were disappointed in how the NAA was treating model aviation. They created the American Academy of Model Aeronautics to be a national scientific body who would promote research and collect data in the field of aeromodelling. Not everyone was able to join; in order to do so one needed to have built and flown a model that met certain endurance times. It was to be an elite, science-oriented group of modelers not open to the masses at all. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dirk <o:p></o:p></p></div>
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