How to find out the height and speed of the RC planes?

the airforce maybe interested in your idea.

Take up the hobby. I understand it's actually quite fun. Then, what you currently perceive as an annoying and uninteresting buzz will be infused with the memory of joy you felt during your first 3-point landing, or the thrill of learning to fly an outside loop.

Also, you won't have to worry about retaliatory strikes from RC planes dropping paint-gun pellets.

Second suggestion: noise cancelling headset. $40 at Radio Shack. I've heard the bose is superior to the philips.

Third suggestion: double or triple pane glass. When I bought my house, I (sadly) didn't consider the noise that might be generated by the neighbor's huge air-conditioning unit outside my bedroom window. That, and their obnoxious pool pump, collaborate to generate a deafening drone on hot nights (where one would naturally enjoy open windows.). However, double pane glass helped with the noise immensely, dropping it to quite managable levels. Not only that, but my neighbor with the noisy air conditioner saw us do it, and decided to do it himself. Now, his air conditioner runs 1/2 as much, due to the superior insulation.

New idea: Check your local laws. If they are breaking one or more, have them brought into compliance. If they aren't, realize you should have scouted your purchase out beforehand.

When I first bought my townhouse, I thought the huge park behind was good. Three days after I moved in, I realized it was a testing ground of the RC plane fans. Tens of noisy planes hover arround the area every weekend.

Now for a technological exercise, I have decided to design a RCPlaneHunter to bring them down or destroy them in the sky.

First idea:

A device installed on my kid's 4wheeler, which contains a digcam censor, a powerful uP with some field programmable gate array chips, an air rifle which can shoot a plastic bullet 200 meters, plus some sensors yet to find out. My electronics will detect the speed, direction and height of the plane, determine the firing angle and time of my rifle and fire.

What are the algorithms to calculate the speed, direction and height of the plane?

Any new ideas are also welcome.

If they are RC, can't you just disrupt the radio link?

With white noise or, more elegantly, with opposite phase interference

That's why RC military airplanes have not become popular yet.

Thot

You'd never be able to hit an RC plane with a klooge like this.

What you do is, get your own plane, learn to fly it, and mount rockets on it.

Test it out on the police chopper just for S&G.

Good Luck! Rich

Rich, great idea! Especially that last part! That will for sure tell him whether or not his idea is any good. And if it really does work, even a little, he'll get to live someplace where it's guaranteed he won't be bothered by RC planes. ERS

Eerily, on CSI last night, the murder weapon was an RC chopper with rifles mounted on it, normally used by some special police SWAT-type unit.

Cheers! Rich