Try a Carl Goldberg Super Chipmunk .60 kit. I've built this kit and it goes together easily and would make a great low wing sport to learn with. Keep the deflections low and the plane flies real easy. Turn them up and this is a seriously acrobatic plane! That, and overall it's a really inexpensive plane to build relative to some other kits.
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Thanks for the reply. A low-wing sport plane is a good step towards learning to fly, but that could easily be an ARF. In other words, I would rather not build one unless it is really a necessary step towards building a warbird, even if it is a needed step towards learning to fly a warbird. Think you really need to build a low-wing sport-plane before attempting one of the kits I mentioned originally?
Thanks!