RE: Is this plane any good?
Hi!
It's an airplane which many of us (most of us) that has been into R/C would call: "A toy airplane"
It will probably work OK as a toy... but the question is ...what do you have in mind? If you just want to try out flying a toy airplane for a couple of minutes, it is fine... it will probably give you lots of fun.
The problem with the airplane is that has only a 2channel transmitter, only has 200m range and the radio gear is not removable when you want to move them over to another airplane.
The radio we R/C addicts use, looks like this (see picture). It has a surface range of 1000m or more ( twice that or more in the air) and the servos and receiver is easily removed from the airplane when you want to change plane.
The airplane I use as a trainer in my club looks like this: It's a Kyosho trainer (slightly modified), powered by a 4,5cc (.28) two-stroke glow powered engine and weights 1,75kg.
Span is 165cm.
There are many other high winged trainer aircraft around that looks like this and are equally good and there is also electric powered airplanes that are very good to to start with. But if you are serious about starting in R/C I would recommend you joining the nearest club.
Being a club member makes learning to fly R/C much more easy and you won't do as many expensive mistakes.
Regards!
Jan K
Sweden