Yup,

I did RC cars first, but my first plane was a red Cox .049 C/L plane. I don't have any idea now which one it was, it was plastic and looked like some kind of Extra 300 maybe???

It flew, but I spent more time trying to get it to free fly than I did spinning in circles with it, never could get into the circles...

Then, after not being able to get it to fly straight F/F style, my RC car buddy and I took out the engine and made one of those glow powered prop boats. It was cool, just used plywood that we painted a hundred times to make it water proof and used the servos and Rx from the car for a rudder.



And then, as with most of my early models, it was blown up in a fit of youth angst...



Bummer, wish I had that engine now....


Rog, if your wanting to try a RC conversion, maybe try one of those Guillows stick and tissue kits, they have really nice planes to choose from, they are super fun and easy to build, light as a feather, and some of them are pretty big. I've got a handfull of those kicking around.

It's the great poor mans flyer, I made them when I was super broke in college...



-theprole-