District III VP Mark Radcliff

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I have been involved in our hobby for over 50 years.  As a kid, I was introduced to the hobby by my Dad and he taught me to build and fly U-Control and RC Aircraft.  I became interested in RC aerobatics at a young age, and flew my first pattern contest in 1969, and actually won my class!

Over the next few years I flew many more contests and eventually competed on four US Aerobatic Teams (F3a) (75-77-79-81) and flew in the Tournament of Champions 7 times from 1974 to 1982.

For the next 18 years I was inactive in model aviation.   In 2000 the AMA had a flying event they called "Homecoming" so I took a trip to Muncie, IN to see the AMA Headquarters and museum.   After that weekend I was hooked!  All the advancements that had been made over the years in airplanes and equipment absolutely amazed me and the AMA facility and museum was also a big inspiration.  It made me think of what can I do for the betterment of model aviation since it had been so good to me?  I contacted then District III V.P. Bob Brown and he immediately made me an AVP for the district.  Since then I have been actively involved in our district doing what I love to do, and that's fly model airplanes and meet others with the same interests.  Moving forward I assure you that I will do my best to serve the modelers of District III as Vice President, and I look forward to meeting you in the near future.  Thanks to all the modelers of District III for making model aviation a great hobby.

If you have ideas on how to make our new AMA District III website more interesting and beneficial to our members, feel free to contact me or our Webmasters John & Lisa Zoldak with your ideas.   If your club has a nice event that would be interesting to the AMA members from District III, feel free to send either of them a picture with some event information.  You just might see your event featured on our Home Page!  Thanks again for your support and I hope to see you soon!