Wind-Harvester56

Hey my Grandpa has flown remote control airplanes for about (give or take) 10 yrs. then he quit...to fly full scale homebuilt experimental aircraft...he sees me and my father flying R/C and he would like to start again...I told him since he probably wont want a gas airplane to fiddle with I suggested a electric...."Electric?!?!" he responded "airplanes?!!?!" I said yes...I then showed him my yard stik and told him it was a park flyer and he agreed that a small electric park flyer was a great idea (for what he is wanting to do...just a nice forgiving electric to fly by himself to have fun with)...I then pulled up a page with the parkzone J-3 Cub...and he liked it right away (although he had a hard time thinkin how small these models and *becoming electric* have gotten since he flew them)...he said it brought back some memories of his J-3....so I was wonderin if this would be a good model to re-introduce him to flying model aircraft ....or if there is a better model? he dosent have a transmitter or charger...so if you could help us it would be greatly appreciated...thank you

Rat1

The Parkzone Cub would be ok I quess but I would be willing to bet there are better rtf electrics out there that would fit his needs. I knwo there are a few other manufactures that build J3s and would be willing to bet the radio gear might be better on them then the parkzone one. I have the parkzone J3 and it works but I do not care for the radio configuration on it. It has a slide for the throttle that is operated with your left thumb and it slides at an angle rather then up and down or side to side. I myself would have perfered a stick for throttle control.

the Parkzone will handle a few crashes with little damage and spare parts are reasonable. If you break the bracing inside the fus you have to replace the fus . If you try and glue it together it wil not fly properly.