[RKDinOKC]

Yep, street racing has been very competitive around here way before the Street Outlaws show. Before the show got popular they used to drive the cars instead of trailering them around. The cars have gotten a lot faster since they started trailering them. Not really street legal any more either.

It's like when we started RC plane racing at the club I was in. They picked a really cheap plane kit and engine for everyone to use. It was very popular with 20 racers. Did that for a couple of years and everyone really enjoyed it. Then they changed the rules so you could do your own thing building but kept the same motor. The designs were really interesting but they lost about half the participants.

Then the next year they went to the standard Quickie 500 rules so the guys could compete in other clubs. The participants went down to three because the kits and motors were a LOT more expensive. Then they discovered to be competitive they had to buy a new engine every time someone came out with a faster one. The club competitors dropped to just one. Oh and they had to go where to official races were held all over the country.

Was a lot more fun when all you had to do was get one of the cheapest kits and cheapest motors, slap it together and go play. Think it was $100 total, kit, motor, and everything needed to build a club racer. One of the local hobby shops even invested in radio transmitter and receiver crystals so all the planes could be on different channels and all fly at the same time! The end of the racing season was with an event where they put a barrel trash can out in the middle of the field, everyone flew at once and the first one to crash his plane in the barrel (or closest to) would win a new kit and motor for the next year.

Our club did all kinds of crazy stuff. We had night flys where guys would mount lights all over their planes and fly them after darl. We even had a flying tour where you took off from our field and flew your plane from a car or truck to a field at a small town 30 miles away. There was a pond at the field at the small town and they hosted float plane flys where guys made and mounted floats to their planes. The big thing was having the manned john boat to retrieve the planes that got stranded in the pond.