Received: from nobody by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1XUjpd-00004s-5m for lojban-newreal@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:05:41 -0700 Received: from justbeautifulspaces.dreamybundle.com ([37.156.202.173]:55303) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1XUjpY-0008Uz-2I for lojban@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:05:39 -0700 From: US General Addresses Threat To: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:08:21 -0700 Subject: Surviving Ebola Crisis Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_bar: -- Breaking News: September 17, 2014 National Security Update - Top general says Iraqi brigades incapable of fighting rebels - What does this mean for the public? An increased state of alert. A Survival Guide is now available to the general public in the event of the breakdown of social order. Civilian Survival Strategy - http://www.dreamybundle.com/civil/guide/national/press/release.shtml --- Update Complete --- Related News: Ebola Survival Plan - http://www.dreamybundle.com/civil/guide/national/press/release.shtml Security notifications - TGI services settings - 1324 Swan Dr Bartlesville, OK 74006 http://www.dreamybundle.com/68o/wrg/huy/aw3/njuy/ki87/s2.cgb Put the effort into bringing back Formula V to a viable sport, and police the engines somewhat in the manner revkev6 is describing. Maybe not tear down winning engines, but how about the racing league owns the engines? You hand out engines to participants at the start of the season, randomly. Random spot-checks throughout the season for things easily measured without disassembling the engine, and to check serial numbers. At the end of the season, the engines are turned back in and torn down for The big problem with a racing league these days is going to be finding venues and insurance. After the No one needs insurance if a half dozen "racers" show up and have a day of 'test flying". Sure there would still need to be fully sanctioned and regulated races so that there could be official records made.......... but a lot of the fun could be had without.Real racing should reward those with the best technical skills, innovation, preparedness and driving/ flying skills otherwise it's boring IMO. If you want a spec class, have someone provide 10 identical airframes and engines and choose lots, but this is just about flying skills then. This won't be cheap though. People want to fly their own F1 rules have been around and stable for a long time. This is pretty cheap to get into relatively speaking and you can test your skills against some of the best in the world if that's what you want. Using the same rules, you could set up an F1 race league in your own local area and do cross country stlimits could work but this turns things into an economy race to some degree although at the same time shows overall cleverness in design and flying skill. This does have the advantage of being relatively easy to police (outside of hidden tanks). With a set airframe spec- wing area and weight, this allows a lot of innovation with layout and engine so it's interesting to designers and builders Limiting power is really hard to do or police without a ton of time and money. I've never agreed with penalizing the people winning. This is racing, not a family picnic. The winners are smarter or better so the slower people need to up their game to catch up, otherwise suck VW engines are starting to get expensive, compared to the old days, and finding a reliable source of factory stock engines of one specification might also be a problem. How about moving down the food chain one more step and nominating something like the 1L Generac/Subaru Robin as the base engine? In a clean airframe 130+ mph should be easy.