RE: Funtana or Magic Extra for first 3D??
I first bought a Funtana .40 and put a saito .82 on it, it is an easy plane to fly, land, and takeoff, but the 3d aspect is a little harder, it is pilot ability though, not plane capability......
Then I bought a Goldberg ex-treme 330s profile with an O.S. .46 AX, stock muffler, and this thing is a blast to fly, I run the fuel tank dry every time, it will flat spin, knife-edge loop, hover, ......and I'll be flying the wings off of this thing before I throw some of these manuvers at the funtana..
It all depends on the person too, a guy from a local club had nearly 100 hours on his first funtana and the got caught goofing off.....This was his first 3D plane he had ever owned and I was watching him with his second Funtana and he was rolling harrier circles 20 feet off the runway.....
The look of the funtana cannot be beat... just my $0.02