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In article <1993Jan4.184044.29591@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, mju@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (michael.j.urban) writes:
>>I fly R/C, not combat, but I'm going to let you know how I feel anyway. 
>>I posted about a year ago on the subject of "why don't the control-
>>line flyers use mufflers?"  It seemed strange that the AMA is such a 
>>strong advocate for mufflers in R/C and yet had no stated public policy 
>>for C/L.  I fly at Ned Brown Woods in Elk Grove Village and the C/L 
>>engines are indeed quite loud and irritating; loud enough that you 
>>cannot hear your R/C plane in the air.  The loudest engines are the 
>>combat types practicing for competition.  
> 
> 	
> 	Items #4 & 5 above are still true.  There are no effective
> 	mufflers available that would survive the inevitable carnage, and
> 	no one seems to know how to design them.

There aren't any now, because noone has really tried to design one.  I 
guarantee that within 1 month of an AMA rule requiring mufflers, you 
will see ads in the model magazines for commercial units for sale.  

> 	
> 	I would like all the RC flyers out there to note that the single
> 	loudest event in all of model aviation is one of your own, and
> 	that is Pylon Racing.  Not only are they loud, but there are
> 	usually FOUR of them going at once, and they are up there in the
> 	sky where the noise propogates more widely than when on a 60 foot
> 	tether.  I would be the last to suggest that they be placed under
> 	some kind of noise level regulation.  

OK then, I will be the first to suggest that R/C Pylon must also have 
silencers!  Tell me, are there pylon racers practicing at your 
control line field?

>       To someone who appreciates
> 	high performance model engines, that stuff is music, not noise.
> 	However, it does sort of irritate me to have an RC flyer complain
> 	about the noise of a competition control line event, when the
> 	competition RC event is louder.

It's not the noise at the Nationals that bothers me, but the noise at 
my home field where I fly every week.  The noise at my home field is 
not going to get any quieter until the rules for combat are changed. 
You don't have to listen to R/C pylon racers every time you fly.  Why 
should I have to listen to open exhaust combat engines every time I 
fly?  

> 	
> 	Mike Urban

Maybe some of the musicians of R/C pylon can converge on your field 
for a little music democracy.