I am well aware of the limitations placed on Giant scale racing with regard to the distances etc... but nowhere in the documents that you pointed to do they mention anything about speed. It also appears that the majority of those regulations are placed upon the aircraft construction as well. Most of which no experienced modeller would ever attempt anyway, Nyrods on a giant scale racing plane?? There is no verbage to restrict the speed just make sure that your servos are a certain torque. And what happens if that is not sufficient? And who is writing the giant scale rules? The same antique bunch of rubber band twisters that are trying to regulate the jets.
Unless the restrictions apply all the time on giant scale race planes, rather than just when an actual event is held, the above comparison is apples & oranges. Same with your example about racing > .40 engined models. Jets are significantly restricted on an every-day basis, not just when we decide to get together and have an event.
Gordon/David/All -
My point is simply that
jets are not the only ones being regulated in some form or manner. Not to compare whether or not apples and oranges taste alike. I think many feel the pain of their form of R/C being placed with additional limitations in the past few years. That's all I'm trying to say. It's not just being applied to jets.
On the giant scale racing rules, the racing leagues, just like the JPO has done with AMA, have had to argue with each other for some common ground. Many think that the AMA does not want racing at all... Obviously some have the same opinion for jets.
If we were to say speed is the limiting factor in the equation of AMA, then all planes should have speed limiters. How about the diamond dusts and quarter midgets up there?
I was just at the local shop looking at Jet Power International... Pipes designed for afterburners? What a difference the ocean makes. Obviously we live in a litigous society.
If SFA were still around today, I would bet things would be different.
Michael