A Captain in the US Airforce and his jump suit has that DS models' speed covered. I hear that by the time he landed, he had his orders for Major.
What did this DS model clock through an entire 1/8th mile level timing zone, after first flying through a 1/8th mile long leveling off zone?
I think the parameters are very important to establish first. The rules that are already in place at the European Speed Cup have been developed after many years of weeding out what the event should represent. They have set max wingloadings and I believe a 10cc limit. The planes are overpropped gliders that need to be dived to get the powerplant on step, then the timing zone is a very shallow slope that is about 200 meters IIRC. The planes enter the zone at 50 feet and exit at 15 feet ideally. I don't know if this is the FAI standard or not.
High Plains has extrapolated what the theoretic HP needs to be for these planes to do what they do.....the figure was pretty high. An equivolent wattage could be used for an electric plane discussion here.
One thing that High Plains has mentioned recently is that full length fairings probably have more drag than just a short wind screen for rear exhaust models. I'm all for that idea!