Combat Event- Great Plane's E-FEST 2009 Indoor Electric Festival (Combat Flying)

RCU Magazine Event - Great Plane's E-FEST 2009 Indoor Electric Festival (Combat Flying)

The combat started with more planes than could be easily counted, but I would say it was 40-50 planes in the air. As it got going the planes started falling from the sky pretty quickly as collisions started taking their toll. But pretty quickly the pace settled down to about 10-15 planes still in the air. The circled and continued to try to take each other out, but eventually the combat became a matter of shear endurance as the planes circled each other trying to stay in the air as long as possible. Check out our video below to see how it turned out!We shot video of this event, but the combat lasted close to 13 minutes. To keep the file manageable so it can be downloaded I have edited the competition and included some of the more interested parts of the event.
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• Radio control airplanes
• rc cars
• rc boats
• rc helicopters
• rc jets and rc trucks
• electric flight
• wattflyer
• e-fest
• great planes
• indoor electric flight
• combat flying

[tunkki321]

Holy crap! How do the pilots keep track which one is theirs?

I guess poorly :)

I have crashed a few rc-planes just for mixing own plane to someones thingy :)

[SomeUselessGeek]

Who walked out there while combat was still under way? Didn't the pilots all get the warning about staying off the field until the "all clear" was sounded?