Honestly think that's the best thing to do mate.

There is nothing that can train you to fly a Gee Bee for less than a Gee Bee. Maybe an F-104???

Not meaning to be funny, but as already stated the plane is a racer. It has an extremely low aspect ratio wing and is as short coupled as planes get. Compared to your trainer (and I expect your jet is a light weight foamy type thing?? Please correct me if I'm wrong) with it's extremely low wing loading and near impeccable manners, this Gee Bee you're hoping to fly will be saw dust in next to no time.

Get yourself a kit and learn how to build. You'll need the experience and understanding of working with different materials etc for when you do fly the Gee Bee. As stated before it's an aeroplane (airplane to you Americans) that you should expect to be damaged frequently. This way you wont be disappointed. If you take it home one day undamaged, great! You will find the experience of building very useful though.

Why not get yourself a decent low wing sport model kit for plane number 3? Not sure what's popular in the US at the moment, but I hear good things about the Sig 4 Star. For plane 4 may I suggest getting a warbird kit. Somthing like the Top Flite P47 .60 which is straight forward enough to fly having had sport model experience, but it's got a fairly meaty wing loading which will be noticably different to a sport model, yet manageable. Something along these lines is a good step towards successfully flying the Gee Bee.

Congrats on you success with the trainer so far, you've obviously got potential and wont struggle with sports and warbird types if progressed in the right manner, but I gauruntee that even your trainer will have a number of tricks up it's sleeve you wont have 'suffered' yet, and it's all these little events that hopefully dont cause a crash, but at least grab your attention now and then, that constitude experience with these things.

What I trying to say is that the Gee Bee will bite your head off in an instant, so to fly one successfully you really do have to be able to teach it who's boss.

I'm not sure it' a pretty plane, but it certainly has a lot of charisma and a certain presence about it that draws people. Maybe that's partly due to the planes infamy, deserved or otherwise.

We'd all hate for you to fly this plane and wreck it, as most of us know how much losing a prized model hurts!

Can't stress enough the value of being a competant builder though, it gives an understanding and insight that lifetime ARF'ers just dont get.