AeroBattleBots

Battlebots, where remote control robots try to destroy each other have been around for a long time. This would be an air race version similar to roller derby, which is an event where gals on roller skates race around a ring trying to knock the other gals down.

All entrants would need to follow two rules. 1) No projectiles and 2) all aircraft must adhere to a weight limit, say 100 pounds.

So the competition would be twofold. Pilot skill in the air and at the drawing board where these are designed. You've got 100 pounds to work with, where to you put that weight? In a heavy cutting propellor? In armor on the trailing edges? Do you put all your weight into a powerful enough engine and super lightweight frame so you can avoid contact all together and just avoid the other combatants? What happens when you try to lap that heavily armored sky tank and he just flies in front of you?

All the remote controls would have limiters placed on them where a set limited size air corridor constrains all the aircraft. So if you try to fly outside that course, the limit automatically stops you. This would keep the formations tight and keep people from wussing out and just avoiding the fight.

Each plane would have an insignia. At the end of the race, planes would have the insignias of planes it knocked out of the sky painted on their cowlings, WW2 fighter plane style.

Might have prop and jet categories too.