Weight Limit

[George Kennie]

Boy, Ron,
I have never felt all that confident that you and I were ever going
to agree TOTALLY on any particular subject(just considered it all
healthy dialogue), but on this one, I couldn't agree more!
Maybe there's hope for us yet(except for a few tough areas)LOL!!!
Well outlined. I'm with you 100%.
Georgie

ronlock wrote:

>   If we remove the weight limit, nothing dramatic happens in the
> short term.
>
> The few pilots with ll lb and a few ounces birds will be relieved,
> and that's
>
> nice.  Overall, there is little impact.
>
> Over the longer term, our models will get larger. There is room in
> a 2 meter
>
> box to stick in a lot more airplane than we currently have. And
> our designers
>
> will do that, since bigger is better.
>
> Fuselages will get taller and thicker. Wing area will grow to
> carry the extra,
>
> to about how much more? 1,400, 1,600 squares? Since we don’t
>
> have engine rules, getting larger engines is just a matter of
> letting the
>
> manufacturers catch up. Props and landing gear gets bigger. So do
> exhaust
>
> systems, batteries, servos, etc. We probably get more scale
> appearance.
>
> Every time we let models get bigger, they fly better, present to
> judges
>
> better, and judges seem to score them better. So most of us will
> feel it’s
>
> necessary to go larger to stay competitive.
>
> Larger in general, means more money and time to buy, build,
> maintain,
>
> and transport.   Does the existing active pattern community want
> that?
>
> Is it good for recruiting and pattern participation in the future?
>
> Ron Lockhart


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.f3a.us/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20021109/0907ffc0/attachment.html