Our hobby is a great hobby there are many facets to it, scale,3D,pattern, glider and so on but for me I mostly like RACING it gets the adrenaline going and there's nothing like competiton and a good race amongest friends. I started racing approximately 30 years ago, started with Q500, T-34, formula one Giant Scale, early years of giant scale with the Pennzoil team, and what is called warbird .46 modified, have raced at my field the Tomcats, Madera, Lodi, Salinas,Fresno and at SAMS which I must say is one of the nicer and organized fields at least for racing. Been racing mostly local area's and I hold my own. Just to give you a little of my background.
When you talk about Safety which is high on my priority list I'm right with you, you MUST be safe, there's no dought our hobby can be a dangerious one if not done with precautions and forsight. But for the life of me can someone tell me how much MORE UNSAFE is flying a 2 stroke plane with 515 square inches at 150 mph then a 4 stroke with the same wing area flying at 150 mph. What makes it more UNSAFE? because of the ENGINE??? Come on guys, lets make some sense out of this...

Babe