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Old 11-21-2002 | 08:42 PM
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Default A seven year old needs your help.

Here's the deal. I've been flying RC Airplanes 25 - 46 size for about 15 years and I've been flying RC helicopters for two years. Another words I'm not new at this.

Here's my question, I have a seven and four year old son who want to fly, they like the airplanes (neither one of them care for my helicopters and usually don't even want to go with me to the field).

What would be a good SLOOOOW electric plane for them to learn to fly with?

I put together a 40 size high wing trainer for them and they have both tried it a few times but I think it intimidates them too much.

I have also tried the COX Air-O-Commander with disappointing results. It doesn't have enough power to hardly get it up in the air and if the wind is blowing at all it's almost impossible to control. Not to mention that the flight times are so short with it that by the time I get high enough in the air for them it's done.

I've read all the adds now I need some real advice from people who fly these things.
As a side note we also have several RC Trucks that use the sub-c 6-cell packs and I have all the quick chargers, circler's, etc, etc, that's needed to charge the batteries. So, something that could use my 1/10 scale truck batteries would be a bonus.

Thanks for the help.