There is a thread about the Discovery Channel show on a radio-control model airplane site, the following comment was made by the moderator:
The thing that got me was all of the safety issues, and then >the close up of the chute launch system pre-igniting, and knocking >the guy off the ladder, during the pre-launch setup. Talk about >national coverage of an accident waiting to happen......makes >some of the stuff that happens to aero-modelers look tame by >comparison. ( Please NO comments about the recent deaths in RC >modeling) I'm sure that somewhere, sometime, SOMEONE has bought >lunch from a model rocket. It is just the fact that they made >this a part of the story, and it showed the dangers of model >rocketry so honestly. Also think the word "Dangerous" was in >the sanction name of the event.........
On ROL there have been discussions that LDRS is not a good name in the current enviroment, that having the word "dangerous" in there is no longer funny. I agree. Also that the show, while generating interest, might give an innacurate impression of what rocketry is really like. I think these qouted comments prove just that.
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A former NAR member said in that thread:
I belonged to NAR, I spend $64.00 for my insurance and I fly nothing >larger than an F size motor, and you know, I never hear about >POLITICS AND WHINING LIKE I DO FROM MEMBERS AND DISTRICT REPS >OF THE AMA!
I guess he never read r.m.r.