Hi, I’m John Beech and like you, I’ve caught the modeling bug. Got a full dose as I built my first RC model, a high wing trainer, over the winter of 1972. Joined AMA in the spring and set about learning to fly. Over the next +50 years, while there have been many models to include giant scale, helicopters, and jets, the one constant‘s been my AMA membership . . . yeah, I’m a lifer!

Along the way, I formed Audacity Models (2004). My goal? An easy to build and fly RC model helicopter. But over time, one issue kept nagging at me. Basically, helicopters are absolutely brutal on servos because of the high vibration environment.

As an engineer, I knew the fix was easy because Uncle Sam overcame shock and vibration long ago by adopting MIL-STDS. Since nobody was willing to build to such demanding specs, the solution was to do it myself. We formed ProModeler (2013) and offered up our first two servos; one for cyclic control, plus a high speed gyro-optimized version designed for tail rotor.

One day a defense contractor, curious about what we were doing, reached out. One thing led to another and today, servos became the tail that wags the dog! Our lineup? Now 7 classes of PWM servos priced $35-385 and ranging from 75-5255oz-in.