We are happy, besides that, this is a toy, we are flying this for FUN.. isnt that the point?
John,
Actually no! Anything flying at that speed is no longer a toy.
My reason for disputing your claim goes far deeper than just deriding somebodies efforts to go fast. There is much more at stake here than that. Several years ago the current crop of Pylon Racers were always bragging about high speeds they were flying at. The AMA got to hear them and had a fit. The AMA insisted that unless a certain type of protective cage was constructed for the on course workers it would ban Pylon Racing. The racing fraternity had no choice but to agree. The AMA to its credit and its expense contracted an engineering company to design and build cages that would withstand aircraft impact at the claimed speeds. The AMA had ten sets of cages built at a cost of app. $5,000.00 each. the cages were dotted around the country for clubs to use. Then at a contest in Texas a Q40 went through a cage. Fortunately no one was hurt. At that point the AMA banned pylon racing. A compromise was quickly worked out whereby racing could continue provided that the cousre workers were placed off the course 450' back from the flightline. This layout uses up a lot of space. Many clubs did not have room to fit this layout on their fields. We lost a lot of racing clubs because of this. The AMA was still not completely happy and were talking about mandating rules to slow the aircraft down. The NMPRA then conducted intelligent speed tests with calibrated radar guns. We were flying at nowhere near 200 mph. So we managed to maintain our racing.
All of the foregoing was a result of idiotic speed claims.
You are totally missing the point. The last thing we as serious racers, or any other modelers, need, is for the AMA to actually believe that there are model airplanes flying at 200 mph. 450' away from crowds of spectators and other competitors. As I understand it the turbine guys have all sorts of AMA imposed restrictions upon their activity for basically the same reason as us. Idiotic speed claims.
So when you say that this is a toy, all for fun and that is the point, you are way off the mark.
Ed S