As some of you may know from another post of mine, I recently purchased an already built plane from a hobby shop that I'm hoping to learn to fly this coming Spring/Summer. It came with no radio. Studying the plane and trying to figure it out, I'm starting to come up with some very basic questions:

1. Why would you want right engine thrust and downward thrust? Does every plane require this? What determines what you might need?

2. Where do you put the receiver antenna? When I used to do boats, I'd just run it around inside the hull, but that boat was always in pretty short range. The plane I bought has a hole in the fuse for the switch, and it also has a tiny hole drilled right beside it? Could this have been for the antenna? If the antenna is supposed to exit the fuse, how do you anchor it on the plane?

3. Does expo on a radio simply dampen the controls? Will all quailty radios have it? I've been researching radios and it looks to me that a good choice might be one of the lower end computer radios.....I can't remember the model numbers...they ranged from $150-175.

This forum is great and I'm sure I'll have tons more questions. I know an expert that has promised to teach me to fly but in the meantime, these questions keep popping up> Thanks in advance to all who answer.