RC planes

[PFactorDave]

Been flying RC over 25 years. This is a combat sim forum so you guys should try slope combat:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=1355536

Looks like fun.  I've only done powered combat.  But for the last few years, most of the guys flying 1/12th combat are using foam quick builds that they fully expect to crash.  So they are reckless as all hell.  Back in the day (lol, I sound like an old fart) we hand built balsa stick models that took many hours to complete.  You fly such a plane a lot more carefully, and in my opinion the combat is better.

Heck, sounds like the difference between getting a good AH2 1vs1 and getting HO'd and rammed by some tard in a Spixteen.   

[BaldEagl]

My older brother has several including an electric foamie close to the one in the video below and a very large balsa replica of the P-51 Cripes A Mighty.  The P-51 has a huge gas engine but I forget the HP.  He's also got several others, some from plans, some scratch built, most are balsa, some with gas, some with glo and some with electric engines.  He has a basement workshop for this hobby.

Anyway, for the few who might not have ever seen this it's really too cool:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94

[texastc316]

wow. I think I just quit RC. incredible.

[gripen]

Looks like fun.  I've only done powered combat.  But for the last few years, most of the guys flying 1/12th combat are using foam quick builds that they fully expect to crash.  So they are reckless as all hell.  Back in the day (lol, I sound like an old fart) we hand built balsa stick models that took many hours to complete.  You fly such a plane a lot more carefully, and in my opinion the combat is better.

Heck, sounds like the difference between getting a good AH2 1vs1 and getting HO'd and rammed by some tard in a Spixteen.   

Slope combat with (almost) crash resistant EPP planes like Zagis, Weasels etc. is a quite different sport than the 1/12th combat. Ramming is the norm despite streamers are often used and I think I have had over ten contacts in a single flight and my Zagi still landed intact; generally only a direct hit to the control linkage can cause fatal damage, otherwise combat wings just continue flying after a hit - if there is enough altitude to recover... if  not, just run down there, launch and look for revenge

[PFactorDave]

if  not, just run down there, launch and look for revenge

Definitely not doing that in powered 1/12th combat.   

[33Vortex]

Used to fly in my teenage years. Biggest accomplishment I think, beside from building experimental planes like x-wings etc, was winning the national fun-fly in -94.

[CAP1]

hhmmmmm........been flying r/c for abouit 7 years, but haven't taken any of them up recently.

my planes: p-51 76" wingspan ys 1.5 4 stroke.
extra 300 1.20 size with an os .91fx
icepoint with a 1.5(i think) os 2 stroke
super decathalon with os .50sx
workd models t-34 with os .50sx
hobbico twinstar with os.32 sx's
world models "candy man" p-51 with a .50(forget the brand)
world models a6m(in the works. it'll get an os .50)
world models p-40(also in the works, getting a .50)
hangar nine t-34 with os .50sx(slightly heavy for that engine, but she flys more scale with it)
alpha models f4u with an outrunner on it(electric)
flyzone t-28 electric(just bought this one)
raptor 50 helicopter with os .50sxh
hirobo shuttle 30 with os .46
2 t-maxx's and an e-maxx

it's not a hobby, it's an addiction.   

[Sol75]

Been flying since I was about 6 yrs old... so that makes is.. about 27 yrs.. holy crap I feel old now...
This is a list of my current fleet, of course many have come and gone, and I may have forgotten some hangar queens that are stored away lol

My planes:

Great Planes Giant P-51D, Kit based into a B
Hangar 9 46% Ultimate w/DA-200
Hangar 9 33% Edge 540 w/DA-85
Yellow Aircraft F/A-18 w/ P-120 turbine (Radar clocked at 211mph!)
BVM T-33 w/ P-80 Turbine
Top Flite Corsair w/ Supertigre .90
Scratch Built Bell X-1 w/ rocket engine.  Is dropped from a fellow club members B-29. (No, not the Mac Hodges one, but very similar!)
Seagull Edge-540 w/Saito 120
Scratch Built 85" P-38J w/ 2 Saito 120

E-flite MiniEdge 540
Phase-3 F-16 EDF  (this thing is cool! All foam w/ Carbon Fibre reenforcement, approx 24 inch wing, fly on a 4S1P 2800Mah 25C battery, has been radar clocked at 127mph!)


Helis:
Trex-450
Blade-400
Blade CP Pro
Raptor 30
Raptor 90

On the bench/design process:
"proof of concept" small foamie type plane to get the mechanics and electronics setup solidified for a build of a V-22 Osprey with functional VTOL

Have succesfully taken off, hovered, manuevered in hover, and transitioned to forward flight.  Working on the transition FROM FF to hover, javing trouble with balooning as I rotate the nacelles.  Estimate completion of test in about a month, construction of the actual V-22 to begin this fall, hoping to have it completed for Summer 2010

Sol

[33Vortex]

This was one of the things I flew back then, the one on the left is mine. Still have one of these hanging around, litteraly, but with a proper profile wing instead of a flat balsasheet wing. This flat winged delta is fairly fast, about 160-180 km/h, over 100 mph, and can still fly slow and aerobatic well. These two were the prototypes and I helped the designer with the concept of the design.

It was fun days, and I'm considering getting back into it again as I have a couple unfinished models still lying around.