How to Play RC Model Airplane Games

There are many fun games that you can play using RC model airplanes. This article shows you how to set up and play some of the most interesting ones.

Aerial Combat

You can simulate aerial combat with your RC model airplanes without excessive risk to your models. Here’s how:

1. Find as many friends with RC model airplanes as possible.
2. Divide the available RC model airplanes into teams
3. Attach different colored streamers to each RC model airplanes tail, depending on which team that it’s on.
4. Have all the RC planes take off at once
5. The object of the game is to use your RC model airplanes propeller to cut the streamer off of our opponents.
6. After a set amount of time all of the planes land and the length of their streamers are measured. The team with the most streamer remaining wins.

This game can be played with any number of RC model airplanes, but keep in mind that the risk of a collision increases with the number of RC model airplanes flying.

Flying the Limbo

This is one of the easiest games to play, but it’s also the most risky. To play,simply find a large football or soccer field and fly your models through the goal posts. Make sure that you are allowed to fly your models in the field that you’re using, and that there are no people in the field that could get hurt -should the airplane crash.You can also construct a makeshift goal post out of PVC pipe, found in most hardware stores. Cut the pipe to a decent length, and then friction fit it together using PVC fittings.

Bomb Dropping

RC pilots frequently modify their aircraft to carry and drop payloads. If you would like to add this ability to your RC model airplane, follow this procedure to construct a launching apparatus:

1. Find a rectangle of balsa wood, at least as long and wide as the payload that you intend to carry on your RC model airplane.
2. Horizontally mount a spare servo to the end of balsa wood. Make sure that the servo arm points upwards and rotates 90 degrees when activated.
3. Stretch a rubber band over the two corners of the balsa rectangle opposite the servo, and then loop the rubber band over the servo horn.
4. Mount the whole apparatus on your RC model airplanes fuselage, and connect the servo to your receiver.

After the servo moves, the rubber band slips off the horn. If you place your intended payload under the rubber band, you can drop it from your RC model airplane at the flick of a switch. Take a look at this picture, which shows one such design completed and loaded with plastic parachute toys.

You can make bombs to drop out of Styrofoam cups, rubber cement, and talcum powder. Here’s how:

1. Place one Styrofoam cup on a flat work surface, and fill it with a few tablespoons of talcum powder. Take a small paint brush, and coat the Styrofoam cups rim with a small amount of rubber cement.
2. Place another Styrofoam cup on top of the first, lining up the rims.
3. Let the cups dry
4. Take a hobby knife and cut a cross section into one of the cups.
5. If you like, spray paint the bomb and add cardboard fins.

After the bomb hits the ground, the cross section that you cut into the nose will cause it to shatter, releasing the talcum powder it contains. When it works, this looks a lot like the cloud of smoke and debris that real bombs leave after exploding. After you drop the bomb, be sure to watch your airplane and not the resulting cloud of powder.We hope that you enjoy playing these games with your RC model airplane. Be safe,and have fun.

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