RC Plane Bomb Drop

[Rudz]

I recall shrub saying there was an issue with "shooting" anything from the plane such as goblins, remote controlled guns ect, so that why he settle on dropping balls


We have also see an rc plane fly over a jungle island big game and some people did shoot at the plane but nothing caused any hamr too it, the plane is 50 feet up or so and a moving target, when paint does impact it, the force is minimal, the only worry was for the on board camera, when you take into acount some planes can be equiped with multiple cameras that pan/tilt/zoon and even include night vision and gps, they can be a formidable weapon is just a recon role, but the ability to drop paint is a bonus, the shrapnel grenade grenade would be fun to watch but also dangerous, dropping paint grenades would be intresting but the pilot would have to adjust for the added weight and the loss thereof upod release of load

[Mongoose]

You have to take into account the speed the plane is traveling too

Wind resistance isn't going to slow it down much. Cheap RC's will go a good 50 MPH.

I say we steal this bad boy, rig the rear ramp and fill the bastard with paint
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyR0eezwns

we have an airstrip at accurate

[athomas]

There is a RC airstrip beside one of the fields I used to play at. We used to see the planes flying around all the time.

[Watcher]

Stale paint usually gets pretty brittle.

I'd just get some cheap Stinger or something, open the bag, and store it under the bed for a few weeks to dry it out.

Some old "ProCapps Recon" I had was actually breaking in my hopper from the impeller cracking the shells, it was a Ricochet.

[kcombs9]

^^

if his house is very humid this might not help.

maybe try freezing/cooling the paintballs.

[vf-xx]

^^

if his house is very humid this might not help.

maybe try freezing/cooling the paintballs.

Blast them with liquid C02 prior to launch?

[GoatBoy]

Random thoughts:

I do RC aerial video every now and then. You can get an electric foamy (fairly inexpensive and resilient) to lift a 5oz payload (typical point-and-shoot camera) fairly easily. I've managed to get a 10oz Stryker to lift a 5oz payload, although that required some significant modifications. Most people build out closer to 22oz or more to lift that kind of payload.

5oz payload of paint is roughly 47 paintballs or so, and then you need to factor in the weight of the drop mechanism itself.

The CG thing has been mentioned, and you really have to be careful about what happens when your payload is dumped, lest your plane become uncontrollable.

The terminal velocity of a paintball appears to be around 71fps.

However, I wonder if there's a way to put a tail cone or some sort of tail on the back end to stabilize and reduce the drag... I guess kind of like a First Strike round, except you obviously wouldn't want to use First Strike rounds for this. Don't know how much a difference that would make, but someone should look into this if they're serious.

Once you do that, then you know what side of the paintball is going to impact the target, so you might consider scoring the front lightly to weaken the shell and increase the chance of breaking.



Someone needs to figure out how to do the targeting, because it's quite hard to judge from the ground.

[skife]

Like WE haven't had this discussion with shrub a million times....lolol

I have a friend into rcplanes and paintball and his plan is to biuld a plane around a loader and activate the loader via vervo and carpet bomb an area, law rockets with painted tips would work well too

tell him to use a 12v revvi, they use a servo in them, it will hook to his reciever.