Air Strikes
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Topic: Air Strikes
Posted By: woodsballrocks
Subject: Air Strikes
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 6:42pm
| ive been toying with the idea of using a r/c airplane hooked up with a little drop box or something, and a paint grenade inside, send the plane flying up straight and bombing your enemy. can you make my dream come true?? hahaha |
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 6:47pm
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You'd have to be relatively close to your target so you could "aim" which may end up in you getting lit up. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: Paintball Grunt
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 6:51pm
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that would be fun to se the look on their faces when a bunch of paintballs fall on em. maybe u could get one of those small cameras on the bottom so u could see wut u were doin from far away. it would be hard and costly but pretty cool ------------- I'm not going to call the hospital, because you won't learn anything if I do. 
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Posted By: LilDUB20
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 6:53pm
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that sounds like a good idea but it will cost alot ------------- i'm a straight O G in paintball |
Posted By: Paintball Grunt
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 7:14pm
or u could take a trampoline drag it in front of the other team jump over them and shoot...  = ------------- I'm not going to call the hospital, because you won't learn anything if I do.
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Posted By: surfnbrad
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 7:39pm
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shoot th plane and make it crash helicopters work
in some big scenario game i think skirmish the hired a heli to fly over and some guy wit 22 bps ramping as shoot at everyone below it was awsoum ------------- Tippmann A-5: $230/ E-grip: $120/ JCS trigger: $32/ Tear drop Barrel: $35/ Bunkering you while using it: Priceless |
Posted By: Paintball Grunt
Date Posted: 08 May 2005 at 7:42pm
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haha. that would suck bein the 1 gettin shot at ------------- I'm not going to call the hospital, because you won't learn anything if I do.
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Posted By: woodsballrocks
Date Posted: 12 May 2005 at 10:01pm
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yeah, damn more complicated than i thought. ill keep tryin |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 2:48pm
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Hmm with the price of fuel what it is these days, to drop a 2 dollar paint grenade on someone seems kind of pointless... ------------- 
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Posted By: crazy_dave
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 4:45pm
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no, no it doesnt. keep trying man. keep trying ------------- Real guns have gills. |
Posted By: Colonel 98
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 6:40pm
| if i saw it i would shoot it down. and i doubt it can go that high so it wont be a problem lol good idea though. |
Posted By: woodsballrocks
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 9:35pm
| well i thought it would kinda be like an WW2 plane, stay high out of ground fire and swoop low and fast for the hit. |
Posted By: woodsballrocks
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 9:37pm
| oh yeah, it would be woodsball and my plane i hafta throw for a good take off, its got no wheels. so take offs arent a problem. im not sure how i can fix it up without messing up the weight of the plane. hmmm |
Posted By: gumball
Date Posted: 14 May 2005 at 11:00am
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done that with my rc plane, wasn't to successful until i packed it with 500 balls, then it hit something, i'd rather shoot the enemy. ------------- if it moves it becomes a target. Tippmann A5 E-grip smartparts all american hpa fund: £12.50/150 |
Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 17 May 2005 at 2:05pm
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not a bad idea, i'd like to see it happen. also you could use artillery. get a potato gun and stuff about 100-150 paintballs down inside a paper towel (loose, but wrapped enough to hold the paint inside the gun) and light that sumbtch up. it works, too, i've done it before in my occasional woods ball games. my best hit got 3 guys before, they were all within 10 feet of eachother and they all got pretty splatted up ------------- 
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Posted By: CottageCommando
Date Posted: 17 May 2005 at 11:03pm
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yes u buy a cheap plane and program it to drop a grenade and then it blows up and takes out ur enemy ------------- Building an Evil Empire... One piece at a time :) |
Posted By: Impulse.
Date Posted: 17 May 2005 at 11:59pm
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There is no such thing as a cheap rc plane. To have something that would carry more than 20 paintballs would have to be pretty large. Let's say a pod full. That's alot of weight to strap under a plane. So you will need something big enough and big enough engine to get that aircraft airborn. If the aircraft were to strike a player and either serisouly hurt and kill them AMA (insurance) would not cover the pilot of the model aircraft. So you would have to have a large enough plane. Someone willing to take the risk. Overall, stick with people and markers. ------------- [IMG]http://www.word-detective.com/berry.gif"> |
Posted By: LordJovian
Date Posted: 18 May 2005 at 12:16am
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Well, in addition to the size of the plane, I know a little something about the bombing portion. World War II aircreaft used bombing sites, since all they did was drop the bomb out of the back of the plane (torpedoes are, however, different) and try to hit their target. Those drops weren't unaimed, mind you (except some carpet bombing- usually they had a few specific targets and just dropped a bunch of extras), they used bomb sites. It was basically two bars with tick marks on it. First, the plane had to be totally level. That means the pilot had to make sure the wings are level with the ground, and the nose and tail were completely level. Then,from the bombardier position, you had to set one bar to the elevation of the plane, and the other mark to the speed of the plane. There was a circular site on the speed bar with an arrow. When the target showed up in this site, you dropped the bomb. You have to basically form an elliptical curve- when you drop the bomb, it is initially traveling forward at the same speed you are. As it falls, not only does the forward speed slow down, but the bomb will begin to fall faster. The bomb would finally reach terminal velocity, or falling as fast as it can with no more speed added to the downward movement. It is very difficult to to this while in the plane, and exceeding difficult to drop it while trying to control it from afar and viewing it from afar. Basically, it would really suck because you'd waste all kinds of grenades with horrible misses, and you'd have problems with pulling the pins (you could tie it to the plane, but this screws up the curve AND the flight path of the plane). *edit* ------------- A-5 E-grip Chipley Custom Carbon Graphite 16" Evil Adapter(Spyder) 32 Deg New '03 XChamber Remote Line Gun Sling Sniper f/x Stock LPK 68/4500 HPA R-5 CP Reg JCS Duel Trigger |
Posted By: woodsballrocks
Date Posted: 19 May 2005 at 5:36pm
| crap. my plane only cost about 100, so its not as bad as a loss as it could be. at the moment, ive got dual cardboard drop boxes on attached to the plane, each holds about 10 paintballs. im trying to figure out a door type thing so the dont fly out before i want them too. |
Posted By: The JP
Date Posted: 19 May 2005 at 6:37pm
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sounds cool but not practical ------------- $$$$Cash Money$$$$ |
Posted By: Aussie_bloke
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 2:43am
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i work for a field here in australia and its pretty close to an air force field, now whenever we get low flying planes come over, we always get at least one clown thinking that they are low enough to hit with a paintball gun,
now my point is, if ur playing with people and send up a slow low flying rc plane, the temptation is gonna be there to light it up and blast the !@#$ out of it |
Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 20 May 2005 at 3:28am
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has a plane ever been hit? -------------
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Posted By: Aussie_bloke
Date Posted: 26 May 2005 at 9:32pm
nah mate, they are too high and going way too fast, the field is on a slight slope up to a hill, so they fly a lil higher, we had the air force maintaince crews out at christmas for there break up party and they just laughed there arses off |
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