Bill Swingle wrote:
> I just read, in the AMA magazine, that the safety rule for combat is:
> "Spectators shall be located 500 feet per cubic inch of displacement away."
OK! I'm about 80 kg. Assuming a nominal SG of 1 this makes me 80 litres. One litre =
61 cubic inch which makes me 4880 cubic
inches displacement. I would then have to be located 4880x500 = 2.44 million feet
away! (46.21 miles)
It would help no end if rule makers would actually say what they meant. It would be
logical to assume that, as nothing else is
mentioned in the sentence, that they are referring to the spectators displacement. (if
they meant motor displacement why not say so?
- it is this type of ambiguity that makes for "nonsense rules")
--
John O'Sullivan
Nova Scotia
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