The Escapade is a good bet...

A properly set up Escapade should not produce flutter in flight, so just watch your setup/configuration.

Though some fault the gear as being too "weak" this is more of a problem with the pilot.

Yes you can add a lot of strength to the gear mount area, etc. but doing so merely causes hard landing damage to be more pervasive, as impact is not absorbed as easily and then gets transmitted to the fuselage.

Instead keep the pants off, and learn to grease your landings.

The plane will land slowly so doing so is not problematic.

Do drip CA on exposed surfaces to harden them ( sometimes I go through a bottle per plane! ) and epoxy load bearing areas, as with all ARFs.


Don't be tempted to overload the plane with an out of spec engine too... I've seen people throw .75's and .91's on it then complain about flutter when this is well outside of design.

Otherwise I've trained first timers ( coming off of Helis ) on the Escapade w/o any problems what-so-ever.