Well, I think this could be done as safely as anything else, but it takes a good modeler to do it, and from what I have observed, good modelers seem to be in pretty short supply these days (present company excluded!!!)

I mean, NOT flying RC planes at all is safer than flying them! So relative safety is tricky to define.

We have places here in southern california that are dry lake beds, you could easily launch these "scale rocket gliders" safely, and still meet the letter of our AMA safety code with the radio control on board.

Not sure of what the situation is with the BMFA, we all have our crosses to bear!