I flew combat with SPADs a few years back and had a blast. I am looking to get back into combat. Are there any good plans available for a .15 size combat plane. What are the hotest, non-scale planes available.

rcam

In most of the country right now, .15 combat is SSC class.

There are a lot of SSC designs out there, most of them very good. Of course, what to build depends mostly on who you are going to fly against. If you are flying club combat, and you want spads, then the Gnat is a really cool .15 size SPAD, and Gnat combat is a huge amount of fun.

However, if you are going to fly SSC against some state of the art SSC planes, the Gnat can't really compete with the current designs out there. There are a lot of options for a competitive SSC plane.

are there any site that off free plan downloads for the SSC class?

Most combat planes have foam wings. So what kind of plans do you want ? Its not like building a SPAD.Do you cut foam?

Like Jimbo said, there aren't many plans, as you'd normally think of plans for most combat planes.

If you want a SPAD design, look around at www.SpadToTheBone.com. There is a spad forum here on RCU, and a spad specific forum site out there, but I forget the URL. There are some pretty cool new SPAD designs out there, if you look around, you should be able to find plans.

However, as Jimbo said, most combat planes use a foam wing. For open type planes, the fuses vary all over the place, lots of differnet things in use. But most of these don't have anything I'd call plans really.

To work with foam, you can either make your own foam cutting setup like I did (it's easy), or you can order cut wings from one of the many guys with a CNC cutter. For wing specs, you just need root and tip chords and airfoils and sweep info. If you know of a plane you like, ask the builder, they will almost certainly share their specs with you.

Wing building and covering techniques vary a lot. Your best bet is to start with a kit and see what you like or don't like about it. Look around on the forums, espeically at www.RCCombat.com, there is a TON of wing construction info on there. If you see something you like, ask about it, just about everyone likes to share.

For example, if you want to see one way of doing wings (the way I do mine), I have some stuff posted at www.MidAtlanticCombat.com. It's far from the only way to do things though.

You can also go to [link=http://www.texascombat.com]TexasCombat[/link] and look in the workshop section and you'll find an article on building and covering a foam wing common to combat planes. Then go into the forum section and you'll see discussions on construction of the SSC Smack II combat plane.

I do have a foam cutter, just a hot wire but it works pretty well. I was looking at one of the longer wingspan type for SSC combat....Club has limited to .15 size engine. Just looking for something different and competive. Open to suggestions.

Thanks
Randy

The Cobra and the Avenger .

You need to spend some time looking around the RCCA site. www.rccombat.com

Randy,
Please also look at www.georgiacombat.com. There really aren't any plans, per se, there but there are construction articles for SSC Open and Warbird style planes that take you through building them from beginning to end. Please let me know if you have any questions about what you see on that site.