ORIGINAL: S_Ellzey
Interestingly, if you go check the FAI records the top speed for a glider is, if I remember correctly, well under 200 mph, yet over 20 years ago some one made a claim of something over 260 mph and tried to claim the FAI record. Goes to show the claims you hear do not always measure up to the truth when they are measured carefully.
Steven
Most of all, it goes to show the utility of official FAI records for finding out the truth. In these webtimes, falsely claiming an FAI record ought to be as useless as falsely claiming to be the president of the United States.
But what can you do, if an appropriate FAI record modality doesn´t even exist?
The point of my post was:
As we can see on
http://records.fai.org/models/, there exist all sorts of record modalities for all types of model aircraft - exept for R/C jets. So the obvious question is....
NOW WHY WOULD THAT BE??
I think I know the answer, but for right now I prefer to hear the explanations of others...
Peter