I have be thinking about how and what I used to start my R/C airplane hobby twenty years ago, and thought it would be fun to talk abvout some of the things we used to use a while ago. For me, I had a all foam .15 size trainer with a Enya .15 engine. This plane was a three channel design with a state of the art(at the time) Futaba Attack 4 4 channel AM radio. The guy who taught me to fly was an awesome pilot. He had dozens of planes and he really helped out. I remember him telling me to get a 4 channel plane and to switch to FM radios and 4 cycle engines. Now, twenty years later I have all that stuff but wanted to know what the readers have to share as they began their journey into the RC world. What did you start with, how did you learn?