Mounting Weapons (for fun)

[Jekyll]

Originally Posted by mdredmond

Disregarding wind resistance (and thus terminal velocity), a bullet fired straight up will, upon falling back to the barrel's altitude, be going exactly as fast as it was when it left the barrel.

Only in a vacume.

Jekyll

[MartinPred]

Originally Posted by osxuser

Probably a lot more to the illegal side, but at one point I was thinking about putting rocket rails on the wing of an ercoupe. Put some model rockets mounted to them and go play around in the desert. Probably not one of my brighter ideas.

Now this got the gears turning. At a little over $3 a piece, a launcher for these would be easy to rig:

http://www.toyhaus.com/Merchant2/mer...ode=rwolprtfne

You could put together a simple master-arm/launcher-select switch on your panel, and wire it to the trigger of your Infinity stick grip.

For safety, you should do it just like we do in the Air Force for live weapons practice. Go out on a good sized piece of land, and have a rang controller with a radio (or even a simple colored paddle like the Navy uses).

You'd have to make pattern calls. Set a "hard deck" altitude and have a safety observer in the other seat to make sure you don't bust it. And when you call "in from the South" (or whatever direction your coming in from), the range controller (who's careful to be deconflicted from your run-in heading) could make sure there's no one on the range and then tell you you're "cleared hot." You'd also have to have an abort procedure in case someone wanders into your range.

Sounds like loads of fun. Almost as fun as the real thing. Before you know it we'll have RVs as FAC-As in Iraq.

-Martin
402BD

P.S. Make sure you add a "Master Arm--Off" step to your descent checklist. Wouldn't want to accidentally pickle at someone on the ramp.

[TSwezey]

You should try R/c Combat. This way you can destroy things without getting hurt. We used to play with 1/3 scale planes and it is pretty intense. You could mount a paint ball gun on them and have a servo fire the gun.

[Mel]

If you guys take this thread much farther, TSA is going to want to talk to you. They don't take kindly to this kind of tom foolery.

[N733JJ]

Originally Posted by MartinPred

Not sure which catagory to post this in, but I'm interested in mounting a paintball gun and a flour-bomb rack on my RV-4. Has anyone done this before? Any tips?

Thanks,

-Martin

I saw an RV-4 a couple years ago with bomb racks. The racks were simple solinoids attached to one of the wing inspection covers for easy removal. The "bombs" were 2 liter soda bottles modified with fins. I never heard how accurate his bombing was.

Scott A. Jordan
N733JJ

[mdredmond]

Originally Posted by Jekyll

Only in a vacume.

LOL.

Vacuum = 'disregarding wind resistance'

[Jekyll]

Originally Posted by mdredmond

LOL.

Vacuum = 'disregarding wind resistance'

Yeah, not only did I say the same thing with fewer words, but I even used fewer letters for vacuUm. Talk about efficiency!

Jekyll

[etekberg]

Originally Posted by mdredmond

Disregarding wind resistance (and thus terminal velocity), a bullet fired straight up will, upon falling back to the barrel's altitude, be going exactly as fast as it was when it left the barrel.

Disregarding the effects of air, your plane won't fly.

[RV6-O540]

Originally Posted by N733JJ

I saw an RV-4 a couple years ago with bomb racks. The racks were simple solinoids attached to one of the wing inspection covers for easy removal. The "bombs" were 2 liter soda bottles modified with fins. I never heard how accurate his bombing was.

Scott A. Jordan
N733JJ

(The usual disclaimers of course, "never ever try this at home")
Paintballs seem interesting, but you should see what a thermonuclear hailstone, frozen in a liter bottle with fins made from ice frozen in a cake pan, will do to and old farm shed when dropped from and ultralight. Awesome!

[southtarnation]

Unfortunately I thought about crossing my paintball fun with the rv fun. If you are looking at the typical fighter-type-firing, then like they all say it would be peeing in the wind, but... cant you mount them to point down at 45 degrees or straight down? So its like rapid fire bombing with at least a little extra umph. Cheaper then flower and you can see what you hit when you come back 'round...

On a safer note. Does anyone know of a laser tag setup that could be installed on plane? Maybe a static cling reflector for reception and a lil red light that tells you -you are dead...