ScottN3N

There are some neat designs for electric combat at www.montanamodelsorks.com. There's even a twin and a couple of biplanes. More WW1 would be neat.

Dan Vincent

Scott,

Thanks for the info.

We had a thread on WW-1 Combat a while back and there were many neat pictures shown.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_54...tm.htm#5438928

homme de fer

Hi folks,

Go to RCCanada.ca and look up the RC Combat forum. WW1 combat is has a faithful following up here. I was going to post a link to a combat site that had plans but I just checked and the site is off line.

One of the guys lent me his Albatross DV.A to use as a template for my own build and I've got to say, these WW1 combat planes are pretty amazing. They fly great as an everyday plane to boot.

I've been to a WW1 combat event and it was incredible to say the least. It looks like 5 big bumble bees looping and rolling all over each other. I'll post a build thread when I'm close to completing my albatross (with permission from the plan designer).

cocobear

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Try some combat with the GP ARF's perfect speed and a real blast. If (when) an incident occurs, they are very repairable and a low emotional investment.

DJ

Old Erkki

See this European style

http://aircombat.modelarji.com/index.php?c=3

Old Erkki

Henner Trabandt

May I show you, what we did this winter: A WWI-combat Bristol Scout 1/8th scale, electric and completely made from wood. The pic is the maiden and you can get more information on this plane here: www.rc-network.de.

Yours Henner

Dan Vincent

Nice Model. I understand why a 4-stroke makes sense for these WW-1 models.

They have short noses which means you usually have to add a lot of weight to the nose for balance so why not use a 4-stroke?

The 4-strokes seem to like larger props and they turn at slower RPM which is more in keeping with the scale sound.

Too bad my old OS .20 and HP .21 engines are down on power compared with the later OS .26 and now the .30 displacement engines that are the same physical size.

Man, I love these WW-1 types.

dirtjumpdaniel

my combat plane has an airsoft gun

matt13

I am in the middle of building 2x new Fokker D7's for a get together of old friends which has over the years turned into a WW1 combat weekend in country Victoria. We have made our own rules which adds points for both individuals and overall sides during the weekend. The models are 25 powered, generally 42inch span all built up. We get at least 28 models for the weekend, with only two or three left by the end of Sunday. It is run on the first weekend of April (bloody april) and is by invite. It is called WWW1, (Wally's World War One) as the field we fly in is owned by a good freind who is nick named "WAL". Here are a couple of pix's from previous years. Matt

matt13

HMMMM, the photo's didn't load, I'll try again, the files might be too large. Matt

Dan Vincent

Matt,

Nice-looking group of models.

You guys look like you're having a ball.

How does that Fokker DV111 fly?

Henner Trabandt

That´s looking great. In Germany we got only 8 WWI Planes in the open championship last year, but 6 of them survived!
Dan: You love them? So join us, building the Scout. You can get free plans of it. I drawed the plans, it´s easy to build and nice to fly, even if you only want to enjoy it without flying combat. If you want to, just send me an e-mail via rc-universe. Meanwhile, there are about 40 Bristol-Scouts to be built up in Europe and Russia, but many ot them are not yet ready to maiden.
Yours Henner

cashrc

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I can just about guarantee you that if WWII scale combat wasn't in such bad shape here, you'd see some guys trying WWI..just not enough scale pilots to do it. Man, it would be fun, though..

Dan Vincent

Henner,

OK, I'll drop you a PM for the Bristol plans. I'm in the process of moving right now but will get around to it eventually.

I don't quite get this, the Australians have all German models and you are in Germany with plans for a British Bristol.

Doesn't anyone like the planes from their own country?

matt13

Here is the other side. The Fokker D7 flies very nicely, you just have to have the U/C further forward than scale to avoid nose overs on landing. Matt

Dan Vincent

Ahhh, that's more like it. I thought you guys were only building German models. Makes sense now.

Some real beauties there mate.

matt13

I can only upload one pix at a time as the files are a bit big. Here is some of the action. Matt

matt13

This is one of ny favourate shots, bottom wing gone, fues broken in half, this is what we enjoy in a midd air. Matt

matt13

We even had a truck for maintence. Matt

Henner Trabandt

Dan, you´re right. Australians with German planes and a German guy with a British Scout. That´s strange, isn´t it? But I took the Scout for our WWI-workschop, because it is the most easy construction, our workshop was made for WWI-beginners. But here is my Halberstadt:

matt13

I like the look of your Halberstadt Henner, is it electric or glow? We have grown over the years to really enjoy our one weekend, we get points not just for streamer cuts, but also for midd-air collisions. The yells of laughter when you have a midd-air with one of your mates makes the months of building which is going down before your eyes worth every bit of it. Here is a pix of a typical WWW1 combat pilot, ready to do battle. Matt

Clean

Matt, Plans? for any of these planes?

cashrc

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Dangit Clean, it looks like fun, don't it?

rmelton

The Fokker DVIII is , sorry WAS mine ( Rittmeister Von Grossenschlanger -Commanding Officer ,Justa Jasta AKA Ray )- bloody awful aeroplane but I was curious, my Albatros and the DVII's and SE5a's are beautiful to fly

Clean

You know I've never had a biplane. Well, I had a couple CL Manx Cats but never a WWI plane which is one of the things that got me in this hobby.