I hope you didn't wreck that beautiful Spitfire.

How did the combat work? I asume you didn't have miniture cannons on them.

Yep... that Spitfire was lost in battle. We tied streamers behind the planes, and tried to cut them off each other. It was a blast. There’s a National organization that holds meets, and even has a National championship. I’ve lost as many as four planes on one day doing it. Lots of mid-airs.

Do you have any videos? That sounds like a blast, but four in one day?!? Expensive hobby.

I did it back in the 90’s and early 00, before digital video was cheap enough for the common man... so I have no video, however, I’m sure google for R/C combat would produce plenty!

Looks like fun, a lot of work to go into crashing though

Exciting though.

More fun to watch... :)

Doesn't it make it more exciting to have skin in the game?

More expensive, that’s for sure...

I spend most of my time trying NOT to wreck things. I don't know if I could change the paradigm that radically.

this would be fun too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLLAKnVej9o 

We’ve done that with paint balls :)

ever shoot at a Volt?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dV1nfjQRY 

I love the Gnat shooting. Too cool!

gnat shooting would be fun, I like the charges they put on the wings for show, even though you would be able to hear and see the hits without them

I don't know if you would hear them with six shooters firing away.

Did you notice the lack of muzzle discipline with some of them? My Dad was a shooting instructor. He would have cuffed me hard if I came close to putting a muzzle towards someone.

I did, most  videos with folks shooting are pretty slack.  at home or at the shooting range we are carefull

My dogs hate muzzles

my bride does too, not that she wears one, but she doesn't like the idea of a dog wearing one

Toby needs a muzzle to stop all the licking.

I always think they look like a dog with a catcher’s mask on...

A lot of folks around here are using one that's just a strap around the snout. I haven't looked at them closely but I think their like a slip collar and tighten if you pull on the leash.

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A lot of folks around here are using one that's just a strap around the snout. I haven't looked at them closely but I think their like a slip collar and tighten if you pull on the leash.

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Those aren't intended to be a muzzle.  They are called a "gentle leader" and are supposed to work following the same concept of a halter or bridle on a horse--that a dog is going to follow it's head so if you better control the dog when walking you need to have better control of its head.  So with a horse you pull to the left to turn left, you pull to the right to turn right, you pull back to stop.  Same idea.  If the dog is charging ahead, you pull back and it limits the dog's forward motion and slows him down.  And if you want to turn and the dog is pulling in a different direction, then it helps to turn the dog's head in the direction you want to go.

It's kind of the same concept of a choke collar, only it doesn't choke the dog and it does seem to be more effective in turning/stopping them.  (How many times have you seen someone with a dog choking himself on the collar trying to get at something and not stopping no matter how hard the owner is pulling?)

But a lot of people do see something around the nose and think "oh that's a muzzle."  But it's not a muzzle and is not intended to be one and is completely ineffective if someone tries to use it as one.

We tried a nose slip collar on our male greyhound. Drove him NUTS!!! He ended up on the ground trying to rub it off

kinda like a nose ring, you see somebody with one of those and you wanna reach over and pull it out