I also bought the Tower trainer ARF. It has a lot more assembly required than I expected, Ailerons rudder elevator, but feel better knowing that if any of these surfaces fail (depart) I am the one that messed up. I am usually a hardcore kit builder but for the price you can't buy a kit and the covering. This will be my second time entering this hobby after a 12 year break. My original trainer was a garbage bag case years ago. It was a Goldberg Eagle 2 and it was built too lite for my taste.

One thing that I noticed about the covering on the Tower trainer was not as tight as it should be. I noticed wrinkles on the ailerons and wing, and the red started to come off on the top of the wing.

Do yourself a favor and get you a sealing iron and a hot sock, and re-seal the whole structure. Use the hot sock to rub down the covering on the wooden surfaces after it is heated.

Stratotanker was asking which kit to build for a second? My second plane back then was the Sig Kavalier. (I quickly built one after my Eagle was buried). It is a shoulder wing plane, and very docile, a good choice for a second plane. One warning about Sig, they are Craftsman kits which means that they are a little harder to build than others, but with a little time and patience are very good flyers.

I meant to say hot glove. If you rub down the hot covering with your bare hand it gets rather uncomfortable.