I learned to fly with the Aerobird this summer. I am amazed you got an hour out of a flight. That is awsome! I never go more than 10 minutes. I had a similar problem to what you are having. It flew fine then I had to replace the wing and it would not fly straight at all. My cousin has an aerobird. We took the wing off of his and it flew great. The wing I got from the store was slightly warped, it wasn't the same countour on each side. Almost as if it had been caught under the hatch of my car or somethign and the heat worped it.

Take a good look at your wing and make sure it looks the same on both sides. Also make sure the wing is attached in dead center of the fuse. If it still won't fly straight, adjust the trims more. If it will not turn to the left, shorten the control line on the right to raise the right flap about a 1/4 turn. Try it out, just keep adjusting it till it flies straight. The control surfaces may not be even at nuetral by the time you get it trimmed, but thats not a problem. Also, sometimes those screw that hold the spool to the control horn come loose and it slips. So make sure those are tight.

I assume you tried moving the trim lever to the left. If you havn't, try that first.

Sounds like all you need to do is just raise the right control surface or lower the left. That should cure your problem.

Just for your information, the throttle is what you use to control the motor speed.

I agree this forum is great. I am sure you will get a lot of good feed back to help you make the descion to stick with electric or go with glo. Personally, I like glo because it is more powerful in my opinion and I don't like dealing with batteries. And I like how they are much bigger and faster.

I just got a Sig LT -40 and I love it. If you can fly the aerobird you should't have much problem learning to fly the LT-40, specially if you are joining a club. There are many other trainers to choose from. But when I made my descison I based it off what I found from this forum. A lot of people recommended the LT 40 and I like it a lot. But its the only one I've had so there may be others that are better.

You may like electric better, aeajr can help you there. He seems to know quite a bit about electric planes.



Good luck with the Aerobird,

Wings,