Wine Country Flyers Model Aircraft Club Forum

At the last meeting I brought up the Idea for RC combat at the field. I used to do this back in the early 70ies with a Honker powered by a TeeDee 049 it was a blast then.
Recently  I had a chance to do it again down at Liberty.
Most of the guys were flying Battle Axes power by OS 25 engines, but some of us were in the mix with Electric foamies.
I flew my old  PZ Corsair it lasted about 3 minutes before being taken out by a Battle Axe, but I had a blast. The Idea is to get the streamer not the Plane   ;)
I looking to see if this club would have any interest in starting some combat. maybe 2 clases: electric fomies and 25 size Glow power.
attached is a link to my you tube channel showing the planes eye veiw of Combat "The Last Dogfight"  WARNING  it can make you dizzy watching it ~4 minutes long.
you can see what kind of donny brook it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSwUSG6ZFys&list=UURaCjPJPX_j4ddancQCpZ6w&index=1
Let me know if  anyone is interested in this activity.

I'm in.....just let me know when the classes have been decided so I can start building.

Hi Larry,

This sounds like a blast!  Thanks for posting the video link, too.

Put me down for electric foamie.  Oddly, I purged my garage last year of wrecks and hangar queens. So for airplane selection I'm wide open.

What are you thinking of flying in foamie?

Paul

My personal throughts were to have 2 classes.
One being the Parkzone type Foamies, 480 size motor,cheap and disposable or easily repairable foam.
The other being a 25 size 2 stroke Glow of the type the Battle Axe is. The are other types of combat planes out there we could use.  I think even a design your own would be cool.
Here's a link to a fun combat event maybe a little large for us but you can get the idea.
This is "Total Destruction Combat in Mass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZq9jrCp0A&feature=youtu.be

The T-28 class sounds cool. Everyone has a T-28 laying around. Let's battle!

I would be interested in giving combat a try as well.  Pick a date and let's give it a go!

After talking to a number of members on this I think maybe the first thing would be to start with a
"T-28" type class any parkzone foamies  using the same power system. ie: the PZ480 outrunner, 10 inch prop (stock) and up to a 2250MAH 30 C lipo.
5 minute rounds, 5 rounds. Scoring would be by the number of hits on any opponent’s streamer. streamers should start each round at ~15 foot long, tied to the end of a 3 foot string attached to the tail of the aircraft.  Beefing up the plane for structural protecttion using packing tape would be ok.
each pilot should have a spotter to count hits. Up to 6 planes in each round.
Now this is only a rough idea that I have come with as a place to start.
Please let me know your ideas maybe  we should have some sort of group to get this started.

3 foot string?  15 foot ribbon?   :o 

That's 18 foot away from full contact!  LET'S DO THIS!!

Ahh so its full contact combat is it?  ;) ;D

How about a blind draw 2 or 3 pilots with 3x6 instead of 3x15 ?

I'll vote for T-28 combat. Mine looks like it's been in combat already anyway.

There's two more interested if we can use Parkzone Corsairs

I also have a PZ Corsair whitch was damaged in its last Dog fight.
I think any thing  Of that size and power (electric) would be perfict for the Dog fights.

is there a date set yet?

Not yet but I do want to bring it up in the next meeting.

OK I'm jumping in. Ill be There Sunday the 3rd . I have the streamers and string.
Let's ressurect some beat up trojans or corsairs and see if anyone is interested
in having some fun. I have a set of rules but we can customize. Let's see how far
this goes.    Merle...

Hey Merle-Sounds great. I wish I could be there, but I'll be on a motorcycle ride with the Oakland club. If this does get going though, I'll have a streamer on my T-28 and be in the mix.
John

You guys gonna get something going this weekend?  Looked like enough hands were raised at last night's Members Meeting to get quite a furball going.

I'll definitely be out to see it.

Also, the suggestion was raised that if we had streamers ready in the shed that impromptu Combats would be much more likely to happen. That's a great idea.  Is anyone interested in getting this started?

Koh

I think it might actualy happen  Sunday (3/24) at 10:00AM "Foamies" Just in case bring your own Streamer and string.

March Sunday 24, T 28 10 am for cut tails...good  I will be there

I Will be there with my T-28

Got a few pics of you guys.  Good job for getting out there and making it happen.

btw--those ribbons last a whole lot longer than I thought they would. ;)

Koh

I think it was good start for the first combat. We can setup another one in couple of weeks when everyone is ready

Well I guess it was a success but I had some issues. my old corsair was rebuilt and almost ready to fly by 10:30PM Saturday night when I discovered my ESC was bad, not having a spare I was grounded.
Not to be deterred I brought my Corsair out anyhow which was a good thing, cause Merle forgot his TX for his Corsair. So I put my Futaba RX in his plane (mine was going nowhere) and the plan was for me to fly his plane with my RX/TX and he would fly his old T-28. well that was not to be. his old T-28 ended up with motor issues and then when he got that sorted out. his TX died( battery dead).
we ended up merle flying and me timing.
we had 4 pilots Merle, Bill, Dillon and Julio. no ribbon were cut however Dillon won the first heat by maxing the spot landing.  Julio crashed ( equipment failure)
2nd Heat merle was out as my TX failed on the ground( looking into that now)
Julio crashed (repair did not hold)
Dillon lost his streamer( no strike on it)
Bill won by default he was closes to the spot landing.
I'm very puzzled as to what happened to my TX, it dropped in the default FM(ppm) mode and would not go into 2.4GHZ at all. I think it may be heat related, cause when I got home later that last night it worked fine. Got a call into Futaba now.

I would like to know if anyone is interested in a Combat Demo on Opening day May 19.
I'm thinking the foamie class again like we did before. and maybe merle, Julio and anyone who has a Battle Axe might do a quick flight after the combat demo. I'd do my Battle Axe but I dont think I can get it ready in time.

I am interested to do another combat, but not 100 % positive for May 19

That's a good question, Larry. 

The Board meets again May 6 and a big topic will be the Opening Day agenda.  Lets see if you get a quorum. If so, Combat could be a fun addition.

Koh

I'll bring my T-28 along with the "paint ball" plane.
John

To all Our potential Red barons out there. On Sunday, May 19, we will be having a Combat demo at the Opening Day.  Fomies will  take to the Air in a combat Demo. So please all who are interested bring your Foamie combat planes and join the fun. Please reply to this post and let me know if you’re coming out to fight.
Details are still being worked out but I need to Know who's going to fly.
Thanks. Merle and Julio can you bring your Battle Axe's, in addition for a quick flight demo?
Merle has agreed to supply streamers and string.

As I was talking to Larry at the meeting. We should organize a combat event in few weeks. We can have  only one electric class or do both electric and gas.

 

I good for that  any takers for this Saturday? Rain on Sunday. >:(

I am in for this Saturday.