ORIGINAL: Ron Olson
It is illegal to shoot down ANY aircraft, whether it's full-sized or R/C if you want to get technical and carries the same punishment. If you want to blow one out of the sky for kicks, then it's up to you. Take your planes over the the conservation club on the west side of town, they have a nice large field there where you could take yours down.
I highly doubt that an air-soft pellet gun would do much damage if you could even hit the plane.
You obviously have not fired one of the good ones or seen the post in the crash forums. A neighbor of mine had an airsoft M-4 replica that could unload a 200 round mag in 30 seconds and shred a cardboard soda box in the proccess with 90% of the rounds going clean through at 60 ft range. Now just how well do you think monocoat and balsa would do? I'll give you the plywood would probably survive.