RE: What's a good second plane
Get yourself a 4* or GP Rapture kit, dress it up in warbird colors, and knock yourself out! The 4* was my second plane. It is a floater, all right. If I had it to do over again, I would build the standard wing with hinges in each of the last three wing bays. That way I could easily trim off one bay then two to increase the wing loading when I wanted to.