my LHS has been tryin to get a hold of these guys since last saturday. we have about a dozen guys who want to get into some combat but JKA is not responding. any one else have good combat planes, we want to get this happenin before every one loses interest.

Air-brush Dude,

You'll want to fly the "SSC" class of combat. It is the RC Combat Association's most popular class, has been for 3 years, and keeps getting more popular.

It is .15-sized to be easier, cheaper, and more survivable.

Check out [link=http://www.TreneffRC.com]TreneffRC.com[/link] for Battle Axe kits. They are also available as ARCs or ARFs if you have guys that "don't want to build". Building combat planes is actually pretty easy though.

I don't think you can go wrong with these.

Good luck!

Have YOU tried calling them? The origianl JKAerotech guys sold to the new guys and they may have been out to the NATs. I would suggest giving them a phone call sometime.

JK Aerotech Contact info:

Address: PO Box 661, Boring OR 97009

Phone: 503-663-4081

E-mail: [email protected]


And choose whatever form of combat floats your boat for local level combat. You can always go to whatever RCCA combat you want later. Scale ships are less forgiving then Open, but they look cooler and for sport flying they're pretty fast and fun. You could look into their SSC Scale ships like the Helldiver. I've thought about them real hard lately.

thanks for the replies guys. we just have a bunch of local cats that wanna try some combat, nothin serious. we made our own rules. the plane must resemble a ww2 plane and have no bigger than a .25 in it. thats all the rules. I'm starting to worry cause I know if we don't make it happen quick every one will loose interest and that will be the end of it. I will try calling them again on monday I guess. thanks again.

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2548 is the class of plane you want.

Maybe, but maybe not. 2548 planes are harder to launch than smaller 2610 planes with the same power. And it's more important to fly what works for your club, or what other guys in your area are flying if you want non-club members to fly. As far as I know, there hasn't been any 2548 anywhere near NJ yet. There are some guys in that area that have experience with the 1/12th scale classes though.

Air-brush,

We just started a combat thing at our club too. It all started when some guy flying a Cub started swatting at a Stik...very funny, but not survivable for the Cub which spiraled in after losing the tail.

Now we have 6 guys with JK Aerotech planes. There are 2 F4U, 2 FW 190, 1 P-51 ,and a Zero. We all just placed our orders on-line and the planes arrived 3 days later, none of us talked a person.

My FW-190 was just completed 8/9/06 and flown. It is a very good flying airplane.

If I were you I would get one built and take it to the field even if nobody else has one yet, it'll get them going again.

Here is my ugly little FW.

Ooo, that is ugly. The plane ain't so bad though.

"THE Ravenger of Rantoul " strikes again LOL

Here's my JK Aerotech P-47. It's built for 2548, using the longer wingspan N wing, she's 47 inches span, I built her pretty much stock except for just a couple of minor mods I made. It's running a Norvel 25 with a 10-3, and when she was new, she weighed in just over the minumum weight of 3 pounds, 4 ounces. It launches easy and flies well. It's also quite tough, as I had a battery failure when she was nose down full bore, when straight in to the hard baked Texas dirt from about 100 feet or so. We never found the throttle servo, but the airplane was intact fro the win leading edge back, the forward fuse was in 4 large chunks, and the coro was ripped. About 1 hours worth of work with epoxy and PU glue, plus dry time and touch up, and she was ready to fly again.


The plane in the background is a Hattrick RC Zero..it's a great bird too..

Cash

good looknig planes, some are a bit too pretty to be bashed apart in combat... but nevermind... its only foam isnt it?