ORIGINAL: Matt Kirsch
I feel this thread's really about liability, not airplane speed. We'll all be much better off simply not knowing how fast the planes are going, and not being able to measure. Do we really want to open that can of worms? Besides, the wording is indeed INCAPABLE. Nothing is mentioned about measuring the speed of the plane.
OK Matt, I'll buy that. Modelers like challenges; somebody claims a GWS Tiger Moth can't reach 20 mph, and you can bet the farm somebody will be back tomorrow with a shot of a radar gun screen showing that one he equipped with a 50 mm outrunner and 8 cell Lipo pack was clocked at 120 mph, and never mind that it shed the wings during the speed dash.
Let the insurance co. lawyers trying to beat a claim show the model that crashed into the school bus was capable of transonic speed. I had no idea it could go that fast, and the ambulance chasers have no way of proving I thought otherwise. Works for me.
Abel