> > Please don't make the same mistake the RES rules did. The rules did not
> > adequately specify the class as to what it's original intent was and
look
> > where it is now. It's certainly not a simple, introductory level
> > competitive event. Of course, almost by definition a competitive event
> > develops a life of it's own and circumvents the originators intents
unless
> > the rules are very well written.
>
> Pray tell oh man of great wisdom, how would thee have divined the rules so
> as to not commit the same error as did the RES rules? What, in your
esteemed
> opinion, should have been included in the current RES rules so as to,
> "adequately specify the class as to what it's original intent was?"
>
> Just curious...
>
> Bob Johnson
> Fond du lac, WI
Do I detect a note of sarcasm here? Or perhaps a full song? I have never
claimed any great wisdom, nor any divinity, but I do have an opinion, not
that I have ever thought of it as esteemed - nor do you seem to. But that's
all right, as a reasoned discussion 'might' generate a better set of rules
this time.
I would do the same thing I recommended when first asked at the Toledo show
several years ago when the RES class was first discussed. It's quite
simple - WOOD ONLY for the basic structure. I'd allow a glassed wood
fuselage as a surface finish and composite reinforcements internal to any of
the WOOD structure, but NOTHING else - no foam; no bagged, molded or
composite flying surfaces or fuselages.
I'd also toss out the usual landing tasks and make it a simple in or out,
and a fairly large one at that - perhaps a fifty foot square?
I'm not sure this is enough, but then again I haven't put any serious
thought into the rules since originally asked about them several years ago.
Perhaps others have, and can add some definition to the problem and the
rules.
What would YOU suggest? I think Ray's proposal has definite merit and would
benefit from a constructive approach to the discussion.
regards,
Jim Porter
Neckargemund-Dilsberg
Germany
"The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall."
Orville Wright
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