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- From: earl@trsvax.tandy.com
- Date: 20 Aug 92 08:31 CDT
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Q500 needing Reform...
- Message-ID: <1195667300@trsvax>
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- Quickie 500 Reformed...
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- Basically, the airplane restriction rules are OK, this restricts everyone
- to pretty much the same type of airplane, thus everyone has about the same
- speed and drag factors.
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- The problem has been the engine. When they allowed "any production .40" then
- the money guys all got into max'ing out their planes and going as fast as
- possible. These are the guys who come out for the races with 5 airplanes
- ready to go (if ya crash one just get another out of the van). When someone
- decides to get super serious into racing and really wants to win, you just
- can't stop them.
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- The best technique to keeping everything reasonable, is to restrict the
- engines to one type or brand only. Also all racers need to agree that
- if someone challenges their engine, that person can buy the engine at
- the regular suggested retail price from them. This would slow down the
- fanatics from putting lots of money into a engine, only to have to sell it
- to someone else "before the races officially start".
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- Of course this system fails at the big money, prizes events, as a fanatic
- would have several custom engines ready for racing. Since there's bigger
- prizes and a bigger event, there's more to win; if your serious. When you
- challenge them, they sell you their racing engine, and just go get another
- out of the van, anyway.
-
- Restricting the engines to a relatively inexpensive engine works the best
- as more people can build, setup, and fly planes in the races. Then it boils
- down to skill and experience, and who set their needle valves the best.
-
- Engine cutoff devices, for the models would be a good idea, this needs
- research and development. A device that would cutoff the engine, when the
- radio fails, or the wing separates, fuselage breaks, battery failure,
- and so on; would be real neat.
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- Earl W. Bollinger
- @ <trsvax!earl>
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- "You were in the Clone Wars!", said Luke excitedly.
- "Yes", replied Obi Wan, "I was a DOS programmer. But that was before the dark
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