President’s Perspective Hazel Sig-Hester, March 3, 1922-October 10, 2025 By Rich Hanson, AMA President | richh@modelaircraft.org HAZEL SIG-HESTER, of the Brookhaven Community in Brooklyn, Iowa, passed away at the age of 103 on Friday, October 10, 2025.There are few names in the hobby better known than Sig, a name that’s become a part of our aeromodeling heritage. It’s a name that has virtually become a lexicon in the aeromodeling vocabulary and represents a manufacturer that has been a stalwart of model aviation for more than half a century. It also represents the family of…
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