ORIGINAL: turbofan
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?
Actually NASCAR and IRL effectively have speed limits, and I assume that Formula 1 does also. I assume that you have heard of restrictor plates. For many of the tracks there is a speed above which the insurance is canceled (sound familiar?). If during practice people start getting to close to this number it is not unheard of for NASCAR to make a few changes to slow thing down a bit. This year I noticed that the new rules appear to have added a pure drag device to the roof of all cup cars. Some of these restrictions are done for competitive reasons, but some are for safety.
Steven