OMG....

One of the combat guys at the local club that flies SSC (slow survivable combat) got me going...

here is the text I wrote him...

Looks like I will have to draw this up (real simple) and post this for some more fun with this Rumplestadt..Yippeee!

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In 30 minutes , I designed a flat foam depron rumplestad bipe with
profile pilots and machine gun. What is unique is the (power pak)= landing gear ($1.50,)prop (.80) motor,($6.95), battery($7) esc($9) receiver ($15) and 2 servos ($3 each) all mount in a sandwich of 1/16 or 1/32 ply, 3 MM depron, and 1/16 or 1/32 ply and is a separate part that can be detached from the 3 mm depron fuselage/wing/tail assembly with 4 small bolts or pins and can be changed to a new fuse wing assembly in about 2 minutes with bolts or in seconds with some sort of pin latch.

What is super nice is that to go to a monoplane warbird, shockflyer, highwing mono trainer or Yak style fuse takes less than a minute..... so one would only need to build one power pak and say a half dozen planes that cost less than $2 each and would build from sheet plans in less than 5 minutes each using low temp hot glue.. What more could park flyer combat ask for???

I found a charger for about $20 that does great on lipos and one would need maybe 3-4 batteries at $7 each to last for several rounds....unless you just wante to take a chance and charge them faster at the field..

The whole rig minus transmitter costs less than the motor on the SSC... and is damage-disposable. I even designed in a landing gear/wheels that will take off short grass..;-)