This is the first place I've ever heard of "RC Combat..."

... What is it all about, what are the rules, and what are acceptable weapons? How do you score it?


- Camel.
P.s. Anyone from North Dakota wanna fight next month? (I bought a MiG 15 Ducted Fan Nitro RC off of eBay, but that's my whole paycheck. I need to wait until next month to get a radio and servos for it. I hate yard boy jobs. )

Havn't heard of RC combat, and you call yourself a pilot.. HA HA just kidding.. RC combat is real fun... And distructive for that matter. which is part of the fun, well sometimes...

All the rules could be found on the rc combat assn site, www.rccombat.com Basic idea is try to cut the other guys streamer off thier tail while trying to keep your streamer from being cut. Doing that with 5 or more people is hard. Combat is flown in rounds each being 5 minutes long. You can get extra points by flying the whole fiive minutes, extra points by keeping all of your streamer etc.
There is different classes also so you could be flying together with like planes. The 4 main classes is open A - .15 size motors; open B - .25-.30 size motors, SSC (slow survivable combat) - limit on motor cost, RPM and a Scale class. Just a primer, on the RCCA website it will list all the rules and regulations.
I mainly fly Open A with my Lanier Ripper which could be seen here....

Awesome! Thanks!



- Camel.
p.s. I'm not a pilot yet... still going to school for that license (the real deal), and haven't played around with an RC Airplane since I was a kid. :P
Also, what are the streamers made of, and how are they cut? I found the Open rules (my MiG is free-scale), but it doesn't really say exactly how the streamers are cut...

My impression is that they are tissue paper streamers, and ripped up by the propeller? Or maybe just torn to shreds by the natural weight of the wings/fuselage?

http://www.spssalesinc.com/downloads...ic2002_56K.WMV

The streamers are usually crepe paper. Sometimes a tougher material called forestry tape is used, usually when it's wet out and the crepe isn't holding up in the air. (holding up to just flying around).

Streamers are cut either by the prop, or by the wing. Rules vary, but in the AMA / RCCA classes, sticky stuff is applied to the wings LE to grab the streamers. People use differnet things for sticky, everything from double sided tape to honey to tanglefoot.

Yup if you want to get into combat listen to kirk there... He can probally kick everyones as*es out there!!!

w000t!!!

That video pwnsz!!!

Hmmm... Is there any limit on what can/cannot be used for sticky stuff?

I'll have to invest in some combat wings then.

Also, why not some chromey colors, like strips of tinfoil, Chrome MonoKote, etc? It would show a bit better in the sky than the black crepe... maybe even white crepe? (Maybe it's just me though, because the black seems to become invisible at higher altitudes and further distances... but maybe that's just how it looks to a man-made eye <video camera> ).


- Camel.

its probally the video camera but in daylight the darkblue / black shows up pretty good. Check out your local clubs and see if anyone is doing combat over there and see for yourself. Its a sight to see.
For the sticky stuff, no there is no limit. There is no rules, that i know of, that you cant have it. I know kurt let me use some of his tanglefoot and gosh that stuff is sticky and nearly impossible to get off the car seats. heheh.. Covering on these models are usually colored packing tape which makes the wing that much stronger. My ripper has econokote on it, though lighter its not nearly as strong.
Granted i havn't flown combat in a long time as time is becoming more scarce. I do like to take up my plane for the fun of it. It is a very fun plane to fly but could get nerve racking at times, as your always on the sticks.

Chrome does not show up good in the air, normally it just reflects the sky around it turning it invisible. Unless of course it's pointed at the sun then your blind. Black has always been my favorite. I don't know of a condition except dark where it isn't always easey to see.

For practice, ease and fun, make a bunch of SPAD Daggars or Darts and hand them out at club meetings to potential partners. You get 4 wings out of a full sheet of Coro. Fold um up, cut out servo holes in the fuse and have bolt in's ready to go. Get those suckers out on Friday night with a roll of 2 inch Black crepe and some kit string and you'll shut the field down. Just let folks go up and run till there out of fuel or streamer, land and get back in the air replenished as quickly as possible. Have one guy run around with long streamer and take passes at him, this is good practice. Use twice the length of string to get the midair level down. When you start being able to put your airplane in the right area, you'll start hitting airplanes until you get your timing down. That's usually how I can tell I'm out of practice when I hit tail and not streamer. Of course now I'd be lucky to hit air, it's been a couple of years, though I flew some CL combat last year.
Get used to your knees knocking together, you're not scared, it's just an overage of adrenalin.