Time to ban RC planes

[desmobob]

shoe bomber? is that the guy who sent out packages that blew up upon opening?

No... he was the Al Qaeda bonehead that tried to blow up an airplane with explosives hidden in the soles of his shoes. Luckily, he was subdued by passengers as he tried to use a lighter to light the fuse to his shoes! No kidding!

Take it easy,
desmobob

[Boaterguy]

smart guy, carve some shoes out of c4 and you might have enough power to blow your own legs off, unless you buy a ticket INSIDE the fuel tank!
I feel we as the general population are losing privileges because some people are just flat out stupid.

[U1Racing]

no thanks on banning airplanes, i got 5x the amount of airplanes that i have boats, and i love flying them!! why should lots of people be punished just because one person with as much common sense as a ton of bricks did something stupid??

[Skunk Works]

Greetings out there to all.

Today I have been getting emails from all vendors and suppliers with letter templates to send to your local and state reps about RC plane regulation.

Bottomline is that there are infinite ways for terror to carry out whatever they want to do. The sensationalism of the media draws attention. In fact, the local new england news channels pulled hobbiest you tube videos and played them on air as part of this story. Apples and oranges.

I feel for the companies such as BVM in FL where the passion is scale RC jets down to the pilot and cockpit details, the best is in the biz. Should their livelyhood be taken away by such a development, absolutely not.

Behind the scenes these hobby companies are fighting for their lives.

Buy a plane and paint it red white and blue.

[drwayne]

Then there's they guy with exploding underpants.. who couldnt light his wick in flight, grappled to the floor with hand in his pants
He was identified years before BY HIS OWN FATHER as an extremist with suicidal tendencies.. and yet the very system that 'caught' the rc plane enthusiast ignored the warning and let him fly unannounced and unfettered.
Whoohoo.. great job fellas.

[NativePaul]

Yup.

This guy must be about as clever as the shoe bomber!

Take it easy,
desmobob

That is not the point I was trying to make, the stupidity is on the part of the media for thinking that his hobby of scale jet aeromodeling is anything to do with his being weak enough of character to let the FBI groom him into modifying mobile phones for them ostensibly for use as bomb triggers.

I do hope that the media don't manage to whip the public into such a frenzy of paranoia that the government makes a kneejerk reaction and bans a good hobby, I have seen that too much already over here and as well as the fact that I used to fly planes for a while when I lived too far from a lake to travel but had a flying field only 10 miles away and still have but irregularly fly a couple, and not only would I not want anyone to be legislated out of the fun and mental exercise that it gave me but it is also the thin end of the wedge, the ARTF scene is only fairly recent so how would they stop people reverting back 10 years and building their own? are they going to ban the balsa, ply, glass, epoxy and cyno that we use to make our boats too? Even if they don't and just close the clubs, are there enough boat builders to keep those things on the shelves of the model shops? Speaking of model shops, over here we have 4 types of model shops, general model shops which mainly sell planes, building materials, cars and maybe a few RTR boats one if which might be "FE" and if your very lucky it will be a dragon, AQ or PB and actually be worth buying, if aeromoddeling was banned the vast majority of these would go out of business which you may think is no great shame for the FE boat modeler, but they have all the tools, building materials, radio and electric equipment you need to build a boat apart from the hardware and prop which you need to go to a specialist boat shop for. There are model train shops which have nothing useful for the FE boat modeler. Model car shops which may sell me a radio if I don't mind either buying barely functional crap or paying more than I need to if i want quality (why are decent car radios more expensive than decent air radios despite having less channels?), if its a good shop I may be able to get my electrics there but would probably pay over the odds and have a crappy hardcase LiPo and ESC with limited continuous amp capability. Which leaves me with Boat model shops which have everything I need to build a boat, apart from wood and the snag that there is only 4 that I know of in the UK and only one of those has a bricks and mortar store. So I would have to either buy online and wait or drive 300 miles to replace that clevis that let go in my supercat at the last race, and thats building boats out unless I scale up so big I can get my ply from a builders merchant (in which case you can bet your arse it wouldn't be RC or FE but driven by me and powered by a motorbike engine).

[sanyijr]

You guys should try living in CA. (california) or Colliforna as out X-gov used to say. (Sorry, i cannot spell and I definitely cannot spell Arnold's accent!) But in the past year, they have banned literally thousands of things. Those rocket fuel pods I thought were outed years ago along with the fuses. Now we are on to banning vitamins, light bulbs, limiting nitro fuels, glues and adhesives, types of motors. We cannot get 2 cycle watercraft anymore! Have to buy in Reno, NV and transport to get around the ban..... They have even tried to ban english. (maybe next year ) Time to wake up..... Wait till the EPA gets a look at RC hobbies. Then you will have National Security at stake AND the Environment.

Sorry to Just seems like they skrew with small groups, one by one, till all freedoms are squelched.