There is a thread about the Discovery Channel showon a radio-control model airplane site, the followingcomment 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 isnot a good name in the current enviroment, thathaving the word "dangerous" in there is no longerfunny. I agree.Also that the show, while generating interest,might give an innacurate impression of whatrocketry is really like. I think theseqouted comments prove just that.The whole discussion is at Forums -> AMA DiscussionsYou need to register to post.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.

ROFL. Gee I wonderif this would have been alot better of a problemto solve in 1986 and 10 times since, every time it comes up?Now that the USA has INVADED Tripoli, Iraq, what's the point?Seriously.Close the barn door a decade after the horse left?AMA is worse. Far worse.

LDRS - What's in a name?

Nov 21, 2003 22 Replies

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Kurt Kesler 22 years ago

Don't be coming around here with facts, Kirchner.

JI won't stand for it.

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Kurt Kesler 22 years ago

Well, I was just kidding. But now I don't know...

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BB 22 years ago

What I find really fascinating about the whole (powered) R/C universe is this - that when (some) R/C fanatics discuss rocketry, their outlook is - "Wow! That looks dangerous! It OUGHT to be regulated! Maybe it IS true that people are routinely killed in R/C-related accidents, and maybe it IS true that there's never been a rocketry-related fatality in 4+ decades and hundreds of millions of launches, but that doesn't change the fact that rocketry is much more dangerous!"

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