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RE: club - 10/23/2007 10:16:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		So who is going to pay for this? What scale? I would not build and pay for a B-17 in say...1\12th scale, to have it shot at and shot up. Realisticly.......Pipe Dream.

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RE: club - 10/24/2007 3:31:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I pay for all initial costs I will be supplying all the planes unless you have one you wish to bring in I have set club dues at $5 a month. yes we will be flying 1/12 scale.

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RE: club - 10/28/2007 2:23:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Okay, maybe the first fifteen responses were a bit unclear. This forum centralizes it's focus on 1/12 rc combat. There are multiple websites listed above explaning what the "combat" entails. Based on your previous statements, it is pretty evident you are looking for something on a more granduer scale. Hopefully you can find some resolution to your recreation but I dont think this forum is your answer. Good luck

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RE: club - 10/28/2007 3:20:39 AM   
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This forum centralizes it's focus on 1/12 rc combat.


As well as Open classes of Combat (SSC, B, etc).

If none of these fit your idea, you might have better luck in another forum.

SSC is a ton of fun though!




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RE: club - 10/30/2007 3:40:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		for anyone who is still confused a while back there was a story on the news about a place in ida grove iowa that a guy has a combat simulation using r/c's. I based my club off of this

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RE: club - 10/31/2007 8:58:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		That was called "Striking Back", put on by Byron Originals some years ago. They had the resoucres and money to do a wargame/simulation that you're talking about. Unless you're using streamers as part of the points sytem for this wargame, it's gonna get expensive fast, as they used ground burst simulators to simulate bomb runs, and had a few birds literally explode, crash and burn as part of the scenario. I used to have it on video, but it's long since been lost.
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RE: club - 10/31/2007 9:08:28 PM   
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RE: club - 11/1/2007 3:09:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		And just to clarify, "Striking Back" wasn't a contest, it was a scripted show.

I'm just bummed that I never got a chance to go watch.


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RE: club - 11/2/2007 3:35:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		actually i saw this on the news only a few months ago. about january I think so im not sure were talking about the same thing because it is still going on but yes my club is based off of something similar to the video that your talking about as well

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RE: club - 11/2/2007 4:42:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't heard any of my Iowa buddies say they were doing that back in Ida Grove again. I did get to see a couple of the productions when they moved it to Ankeny, it was pretty cool. But it wasn't combat any more than flying the pattern with 20 other guys is, it was cool though.

You know, you could do it all indoors with foamies now, just need a good size gymnasium. Well, you couldn't have explosions and fire and such, but you could have models of fighters, B-17s and such. Airfsofts would work on those airplanes and would have range enough in the setting. Outside airsofts just don't have the range. From what I've read it takes a pretty good paintball gun to reach an outdoor RC model on the flyby, and then it's kinda hard to hit. But I've read of succesful contests where hitting the plane was the option.

To have planes making low passes by the field during 'Combat' while other aircraft are up in the air. I really think you'd be better, safer and have more of a chance running this scenario on one of the WWII simulators and leaving it at that, although many of the things you've stated are feasable. I still don't understand the 'take off from a hidden airfield' part. Not that I haven't flown cross country and all, fact is, the first time I flew cross country was with a combat Gremlin. Had just enough fuel to get to the scene of the 'arrival'. To take off from a 'hidden' airfield, traverse and attack another? Round here that wouldn't be prudent. Maybe out in the really open areas of Wyoming, Montana or the likes.

Take some pictures, draw a map or show us the field you have in mind. Show us a working model of a B-17 or a fighter plane doing one of the tasks you have in mind with you doing it. I'll be watching with interest and a pretty good bunch of speculation. Would love to eat crow.

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RE: club - 11/2/2007 7:20:19 PM   
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RE: club - 11/6/2007 7:16:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey clean I know theyre still doing the combat stuff but the video that was posted look way more complex because there was no water it was just the fuel refinery or something to that effect ayway the only building were some vertical tanks an there was also a steam locomotive hauling a tank car.

vertical grimmace I have to decline your offer I don't think I will be able to use your assistance because of transporting the planes. plus I think that i can handle building all the planes. due to recent developments i will only be using one b-17 and 6 p-51s whereas before i was going to use 4 b-17s and 12 p-51s but i appreciate the offer. maybe i will write to you when i need tips or advice the b-17 is a full build kit but the p-51s are ARFs.

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RE: club - 11/6/2007 7:25:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		the hidden airfeild won't be very far away it will just be hidden by a hedgerow or something maybe half mile at the most

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RE: club - 11/6/2007 7:29:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		watched the posted video definently not the same one as I saw

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RE: club - 11/7/2007 4:36:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, there were several striking back videos, they were usually in some of the r/c compilation tapes produced in the 80's although as it got more popular and complex, I believe there was at least one standalone video from Bryon, including a scale contest, the Striking Back segment, and some full scale stuff too..

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