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- From: bloom@inland.com
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Quiet combat?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.082530.2576@inland.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 08:25:30 CST
- References: <LARRY.92Dec25074349@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> <1992Dec28.082250.2565@inland.com> <1993Jan4.184044.29591@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan4.184044.29591@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, mju@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (michael.j.urban) writes:
- >>I fly R/C, not combat, but I'm going to let you know how I feel anyway.
- >>I posted about a year ago on the subject of "why don't the control-
- >>line flyers use mufflers?" It seemed strange that the AMA is such a
- >>strong advocate for mufflers in R/C and yet had no stated public policy
- >>for C/L. I fly at Ned Brown Woods in Elk Grove Village and the C/L
- >>engines are indeed quite loud and irritating; loud enough that you
- >>cannot hear your R/C plane in the air. The loudest engines are the
- >>combat types practicing for competition.
- >
- >
- > Items #4 & 5 above are still true. There are no effective
- > mufflers available that would survive the inevitable carnage, and
- > no one seems to know how to design them.
-
- There aren't any now, because noone has really tried to design one. I
- guarantee that within 1 month of an AMA rule requiring mufflers, you
- will see ads in the model magazines for commercial units for sale.
-
- >
- > I would like all the RC flyers out there to note that the single
- > loudest event in all of model aviation is one of your own, and
- > that is Pylon Racing. Not only are they loud, but there are
- > usually FOUR of them going at once, and they are up there in the
- > sky where the noise propogates more widely than when on a 60 foot
- > tether. I would be the last to suggest that they be placed under
- > some kind of noise level regulation.
-
- OK then, I will be the first to suggest that R/C Pylon must also have
- silencers! Tell me, are there pylon racers practicing at your
- control line field?
-
- > To someone who appreciates
- > high performance model engines, that stuff is music, not noise.
- > However, it does sort of irritate me to have an RC flyer complain
- > about the noise of a competition control line event, when the
- > competition RC event is louder.
-
- It's not the noise at the Nationals that bothers me, but the noise at
- my home field where I fly every week. The noise at my home field is
- not going to get any quieter until the rules for combat are changed.
- You don't have to listen to R/C pylon racers every time you fly. Why
- should I have to listen to open exhaust combat engines every time I
- fly?
-
- >
- > Mike Urban
-
- Maybe some of the musicians of R/C pylon can converge on your field
- for a little music democracy.
-
-