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Old 12-26-2004 | 08:55 PM
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Carlos Murphy
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Default RE: My first plane, any tips or advice?

Welcome to the club,
Sound's like the plane you've selected is a kit, you'll need thick and thin CA, 5-minute epoxy, mixing cups and sticks, small and large T-pins, covering, covering iron, exato knife with a bunch of #11 blades, (bandaids) rubber bands (to hold the wing on) a set of small allen wrenches or ball drivers, and later a bunch of other stuff.

You can eliminate most of this stuff for now and get into the air fast with a ARF (almost ready to fly).
The World Models Mach 1 trainer is a great first plane, only 4 things to glue, no rubber bands, covered with shrink film and cost only $69.95 and has a 65" wing span for any 40 to 50 two stroke engine.

You can't go wrong with Tower, Chief, Hobby Lobby, Hobby People or Sheldon's. You can get most of what a newbee need at Tower so look around their site for what you need. Also, look around in the "Question & Answer" and "How To" forum for when you when you get stuck, OH YA, get some CA solvent too. Thats for when you stick your fingers together of too something.