ORIGINAL: diceman
We have highway speed limits, we have city speed limits, trains have speed limits, full-scale aircraft have speed limits, etc.
What puts you above everyone else?????????
You are comitting what philosophers call a "cathegorical error" here, i.e. you are applying your cathegories in an inapropriate context: You are talking about passenger transportation, while we are talking about R/C air sports here. Have you ever heard about a speed limit in formula 1 racing?
This does of course not mean that everybody should get into R/C jet racing. Only that those few capable of doing it should not be kept by AMA from doing it in public. Only a politically correct nature freak could think that this would not be exiting.
Let me quote from an article which which I have posted two days ago in the thread "renegade jet pilot" on the AMA discussion forum: "....But the interest in performance limits is an integral part of the fascination with (high) technology. And technological progress is as natural and unstopable as is gravitation. And as R/C jets do not have a genuine 3D capability, their speed is their true speciality. AMA functionaries tend to lack the intelligence to recognize this...."