Around '94 I was younger, stupider, more impulsive, etc.. Purchased an ARF trainer, flew it, landed it, repaired it, etc.. Thing ended up looking more like a bridge than a plane when I got done, purchased a sport plane from a friend from the field, moved servos, reciever to the new plane, installed a spanky lookin new OS Max .46 on it...

.... and proceeded to auger it into the ground at full throttle as my trainer was pulling into the field lot.

*shrug*

Decided to start again due to the fact that I have entirely too much time and money on my hands, and more importantly, more patience and attention to detail.

Having been not a bad pilot and hearing good things about this plane, I purchased a Goldberg Tiger 2 .60 kit today - planning on not doing much of anything without a trainer.

Primary concern (and main reason for this topic) is the usefulness of some of the hardware that's been sitting in boxes for 9 years. For starters the engine I was using (the OS Max .46 survived the augering, the mount didn't, but the engine runs well) still turns well, don't see any reason to not use it. Is there some safety concern I haven't considered or discovered yet? Also the transmitter/reciever I have is a Futaba Conquest FP-T6NFK unit, which (to my surprise) still holds a good charge and I still have all the original items for (minus 1 servo, which I assume didn't survive the demise of the 2nd plane). Is there some reason I shouldn't use any of this hardware?

Thanks in advance, any comments, criticisms (yo dog homey - you're goin about it all wrong!! <--- even that's fine) suggestions are more than appreciated.

- T