Greetings,

I flew quite a bit of R/C about 10 years ago, and have recently gotten back into it with flying my old trainers- I'm pretty confident on those. I have a couple .40 engines laying around, but want to build a .25 size SPAD (the Debut or Dogfighter off www.spadtothebone.com) to get into combat.

I need to get a .25, but want to keep it as cheap as possible. I know the .25FX would probably be my best bet, but the GMS .25 ball bearing looks might enticing.

Does anybody have any experience with these engines? I basically want to try it out and learn combat on something cheap and disposable if I don't like it or crash a lot (which I'm anticipating...). If I enjoy it, I'll get more into it at which time I'll buy the good equipment, but I can't see spending an extra $30 right now when I probably won't be going up against anyone but my buddy for the time being (he's looking to try it out too). Plus, I want to keep it as cheap as possible for my first one.

Would a GMS get me by for a beginner's engine? OS LA .25? Thunder Tiger? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
-Pat-