Author Topic: Monster Nation dogfighting competition (Read 473 times)

Jackal1 · « **on:** January 14, 2005, 09:08:49 AM »

I watched the R/C dogfighting competition on Monster Nation last night.
The first I had seen of such events.
A ribbon is attached to the rear of your plane and the idea is to come in on the opposing plane`s 6 and cut or gather the ribbon. They had some awesome furballs going.
The Hos ended up smacking each other and fell to the ground. lol

JB73 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2005, 09:17:45 AM »

yeah i caught the last few minutes of that.

looked like total chaos, the planes made spit V's and zekes look like 190's

those things could turn inside their own radius it looked like LOL

hitech · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2005, 09:23:51 AM »

Used to do a fair amout of that, Watching 2 planes at once, yours and opponets is realy strange at first.

FiLtH · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2005, 11:13:56 AM »

My favorite scene was when it went slo-mo using a mini tail cam and one plane came into view onto the 6 of another. Just looked cool.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2005, 02:15:42 PM »

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Originally posted by hitech
Used to do a fair amout of that, Watching 2 planes at once, yours and opponets is realy strange at first.

Yea, I can imagine. These guys had several planes going at once in the competition. It was a free for all furball.
Of course the first thing the wife said was .."Looks expensive".

P0G0 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2005, 05:44:15 PM »

Did this for a few years myself,Styro foam Spit with O.S. .25 on the front. was a great little fighter but target fixation led to the infamous smoking hole. But it is great fun.

NUTTZ · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2005, 05:48:15 PM »

been there done that. One of the larger R/C plane makers is located here in Phila. My bro went to school with the the owners son, and we used to get free planes to build. One of the first U: control R/C's "The Ringmaster"they adapted for "cable free" R/C I put a Fox .40 ( if my memory is correct) in it, Mid wing, this plane was fast as SHEET! This plane would go vertical till it was almost out of sight. One day on take off, soon as the wheels left the tarmac, I pulled it straight up, Unfortunately the whole tail section kept going horizontal,,, LOL nothing like seeing this plane screeching towards the sun, as I could do nothing about it.

I built a 1/4 scale Piper cub after that, while my bro got into the twin ducted fans. WAY too expensive for me.

A guy In our club had a P-51 two stroker, what a freckin' awsome plane, Fast sleek, and the sound of them 2-stokers is really kewl, one day he just flew it to the envelope of the radio frequency, and she just kept flying straight, they found it 4 miles away. It crashed threw the Plumbers Union hall roof, threw the ceiling and broke a toilet in half.

Ahhh, those were the days. And yes, I've had my ribbon cut off more than I like to admit:(

NUTTZ

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Originally posted by hitech
Used to do a fair amout of that, Watching 2 planes at once, yours and opponets is realy strange at first.

Herbie · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2005, 06:32:24 PM »

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she just kept flying straight, they found it 4 miles away. It crashed threw the Plumbers Union hall roof, threw the ceiling and broke a toilet in half.

Ahh that is too funny, good thing nobody was using that toilet. lol

JB73 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2005, 06:35:14 PM »

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Originally posted by NUTTZ
one day he just flew it to the envelope of the radio frequency, and she just kept flying straight, they found it 4 miles away. It crashed threw the Plumbers Union hall roof, threw the ceiling and broke a toilet in half.

he must have been using combat trim