RE: nitro foam trainer?
I also remember the line (now long gone) that hoss is talking about and it included a bananza and a cessna 150. I flew the 150 a lot and recall it as being a rather poor flyer as a forty class airplane.
'Dark' my recommendation to you if you want to learn how to fly is decide if you want glow or electric. If you want to learn on glow then go the conventional trainer route as you will progress much faster and the whole durability idea of foam in a glow powered airplane is not its all made out to be.
John