[mott]

I also hope this kind of set-up is eventually cleared as being legal but it was really the pieces of "cloth" on the spinning axle that caught my attention. If it's possible for any piece of those flaps (or the outermost perimeter of the hardware to which they're attached) to break across the plane of the frame perimeter before the axle of the spinner crosses the frame perimeter it would (by current GDC rulings) be illegal during that brief period during deployment that the axle hasn't yet crossed the frame perimeter.

The bar at the bottom that crosses the frame perimeter first has nothing to do with it.

I agree that it's ridiculous to still have to be considering this but until we see something different from the GDC, I see no responsible option but to keep it in mind.

Let's all keep our fingers crossed!