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- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!jlw
- From: jlw@world.std.com (James L Walker)
- Subject: Re: Quickie 500 Needs to be REFORMED!!
- Message-ID: <Bsz32p.GoD@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <22808@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <ericw.713649487@hobbes> <22866@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:08:49 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <22866@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> lew@4ccvw16.UUCP (Lyman Lew) writes:
- >In article <ericw.713649487@hobbes> ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa) writes:
- >>lew@4ccvt2.scg.hac.com (Lyman Lew) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>1-4 are NOT good ideas!
- >>
- >
- >I disagree, I believe they are very good ideas. They are the most
- >effective that's why I listed them first. Currently the rules state
- >that the contest directors rules whether an airplane is safe to
- >race or not. There is nothing empirical and nothing analytical to
- >determine if the airplane will stand the stress and strain of all
- >out racing, but just the discretion of the contest director.
- >
- >In Control Line, an airplane is pull tested to see if any part of
- >the control system will break. In Control Line speed, the airplane
- >must fly in an enclosed fence. There are also specifications spelled
- >out in the AMA rule book on how line ends should be made and type
- >of restraints should be implemented on handles. These examples given
- >are designed to protect the public and the contestants from any
- >possible mishaps.
- >
-
- If your stress test for Q500 is standardized however, you are forcing
- all participants to build strong enough planes to stand an engine
- they might not be flying. I just fly for fun, so I don't know but I
- suspect that the extra weight of making the airframe strong enough might
- force competitors to go to the more powerful engine just to compete.
- One thing is for sure though, if the CD rules whether a plane is safe
- to fly then it should reflect very badly on that CD when the plane
- breaks apart.
-
- How about a wrist strap. :-)
-
- -- Les Walker
-