Just for grins - here is the FAI teams that the AMA supports and the number of people allowed for each team. They also support the F3J Junior team at the same level, I am not sure about the junior teams in the other events. You can see that the funding commitment for all of this is significant from the AMA perspective...
F1A,B,C - three competitors per class, plus a team manager and possibly an assistant team manager, maximum 11. F1D - three competitors plus a team manager, total 4. F2 - one team manger, plus an assistant team manager, total 20; F2A - three pilots F2B - three pilots F2C - three pilots and three mechanics F2D - three pilots and three helpers F3A - three pilots plus a team manger, total 4. F3B - three pilots, two helpers, plus a team manager, total 6. F3C - three pilots plus a team manager, total 4. F3D- three pilots, three caller/mechanics, plus a team manager, total 7. F4B,C - three pilots each class, plus one team manager, total 7. If B and C are flown at different locations and times, an additional team manager may be funded. F5B,D - three pilots each class plus a team manager, total 7. F3J - three pilots, two helpers, plus a team manager, total 6. Spacemodels - 12 pilots plus one team manager, total 13. U.S. reigning world champion(s) each category. Jim Monaco US F3J Team Manager 2008 -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snipped How many does it take now? Maybe Skip can provide a more accurate number for that first team since he was there. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format