Hi all,

Me and a friend of mine are going on a weeks vacation somewhere, and we would like to do a little combat on a local field. But we dont know any models that are suitable for cheap fun. Does anyone know a planbuilt electric model, thats cheap and easy to make, and can be fixed up in an hour or 2 to fly again? Maybe coroplast or something?

Anything will do.

Cheers,
Sven

A F--27 Stryker is the best I can think of. And it has the sonic combat module.

Its far from cheap and dispencible. Its a nice looking plane though.

But im looking for something to cobble together from some depron or coroplast, and doesnt cost you a bag of money when it gets ripped apart by your opponents prop in midair.

Hello,
I carry a line of foamy combat planes, that you could build on the road. They are cheap and easy to rebuild. I can build one flight ready in under 5 hours including paint and glue dry time. Buiding materials need are epoxy, tape and battery velcro. I just got GWS dealership status and can sell the whole set-up minus the transmitter! When you are done, save the templates and electronics! Check them out at 2dogrc.com!
2dogrc

I do believe you misunderstood the concept "combat" plane. I meant planes that can bash together in mid-air, untill one comes down from injury eventually. The foam warbirds on your site will be pushing up dirt in 1 prop hit.

We all have a different version of combat I guess. I fly combat with these and a prop hit does some damage, but epoxy it back together. We have had planes split in half, then flying in an hour. I guess you were looking for something like a flying wing type with a pusher prop?
2dogrc

More something a little tougher then thin fanfold foam. Something made out of cheap stuff like correx would do nice, but all I can find is a deltawing unsuitable for combat, and some purpose built combat plane, but that was made for a gasser motor.

If you make the object to hit each others' planes, then you will be spending 10 times the amount of your free time fixing planes, than you do actually flying. If you want to play with EPP slope soarer planes, they take the most abuse, but they aren't dirt cheap either. The best way to go would be with SLOW STICK type planes that are towing little streamers, if I was to get involved with electric combat. These planes aren't very cheap either, when you consider what you are getting, so I would build copies out of kite shop material, carbon tubing and rip stop fabric for the wing. TYVEK building paper works for wing cloth too.

What every is your fancy I guess. I liek the fanfold, it cost be $4-$5 max to rebuild one and a $35 sheet of foam lasts all year. You only have to rebuild if you get hit Try not to get hit!

Heheh, the problem is that if you get struck once with a fanfold plane, it will probably snap perty ugly. Correx gets drummed and bruced up a little untill it finally folds and does the swandive. The key of this material is that its more likely to fold and bend a little, instead of snapping clean off, making it last atleast a couple whomps. [8D] Its not the price of fanfold thats keeping me, but it has to be slightly more durable then that.

The streamers is also a nice idea though. But I need something cheap to tow it, that can get chopped up without costing a bundle.

Ive flown a Slowstick before, and I didnt like the sluggish tail control flying. Its something you have to learn to master I guess.

Hey,
We are having a combat demo on the 4th of July. I will be getting some video footage and will post on my website. Might be give you a beter idea of how hard it is to actually hit someone!

Ive combatted birds a couple times, nudging them with my pusherprop wing (dont hate me. ). But its easier to hit someone with streamers?

Midairs still happen if you use streamers, but streamers as a target cut down on damage to equipment. I like my combat time to building and repair time to be greater than one to one, and I don't think many can boast that. My son and I have logged over 8 hours of actual combat time in the last 2 weeks and we are only on our second pair of planes. We are flying PAW .15 powered foamies with 40-50 feet of streamer.

.15 powered foamies[sm=spinnyeyes.gif] Sound like fun but a prop strike must be brutal [:@]

rrh

Out airfoils are almost 2 inches thick, so they have withstood lots of slapping around, but a T BONE or HEAD ON will usually cause us to get out the back up planes. They only do about 50 mph, so midairs can be avoided pretty easily.

That's a closing speed of 100[X(]

Can I get a membership to your family
rrh