ORIGINAL: Cross Check
Combat Dead?
No Way !
''Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?''
(Quote from John Belushi from Animal House.
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All you need is two planes and two streamers !
Then keep the planes even performing,(and cheap) and others will join in...
CP, I respect your opinions, but, Pursuit (80mph)Maac WW2 Scale Combat is not ''High Speed Jousting''. It is a learned Art.
Proof:
Final Round, 10th Onslaught over Ontario Dec.11th 2011: 8 planes up. (click on video 2011 bottom left)
http://www.cobblehillsfightergroup.ca/
(Any video of Combat is crap. I love the 3-D sound of the 8 engines, plus the 2X.15 Me 110 [8D] !)
Maac WW2 is an easy sell.
We will be 'selling' our WW1s at Funflys and Scale Meets to make a big Event, starting 2014 !
WW1 is freaky cool !
Coro constuction is amazing and I am just following the trend here. (I am actually 10yrs behind finishing off my balsa/ply/foam planes !
I just realized, I am Lucky.
To have someone to Combat.
My Goal is to fly WW1 Combat, and get spectators to watch.
Take care,
Have fun,
Dave'crosscheck'Fallowfield
Maac 6437
Unabashed Combat Team
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Call it what you will, but the proof is in the aftermath.
When you are spending more time flying combat than you are building and repairing, then I suppose you have found a class of combat that makes some sort of sense to you and to others.
It is those "others" who we need to keep the sport alive, since it is pretty boring if all you can find to fly combat against is a pile of tethered helium balloons.
Be honest with yourself and tabulate all the hours that go into getting a fleet of your planes ready for battle versus the actual combat time you and your buddies get out of flying that 80 mph stuff and then tell me for certain that a lighter and slower type of combat wouldn't get you a better return on your investment of time and money.
In 1 weekend I typically get 6 to 8 hours worth of actual combat air time with planes that do not have the kinetic energy to break crank cases, obliterate servos, bury engines so deep you need a shovel to dig them out, etc.
I've flown Big, Heavy and Fast and I've also flown Small, Light and Slow...both with control line and RC.
The subject of this thread is pretty simple and hard to deny. All I've done is demonstrate a format that is easy to do, costs very little in terms of time and money and also happens to be the most successfull, action packed days I've spent with the least amount of damage.
You can talk about your "Learned Art" as if it is some sort of Holy Grail...but you aren't kidding anyone but yourself.
Until you've flown what I'm talking about, you won't have a clue.
Have fun doing what you do...I've done similar, back in the 704 days and moved on from that...knowing that there had to be something with a better return on the time and money invested.
That event never came close to 1:1 work to fun time ratio...probably more like 10:1 if you were lucky with some planes.
I'm talking actual "combat time"...not time "jaw jacking" in the pits, unpacking your car, or refueling.