RE: Radio and engine needed
[link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4537845/tm.htm] Looking for a trainer, what's available. (Updated 12-19-06) [/link]
What CGRetired said is spot on the money. The plane you are building is NOT a plane you should even be thinking about if you have never flown. If you do try to fly it yourself I will assure that it will wind up as a pile of kindling. If you try to find an instructor there is no way that anybody will even consider teaching you to fly with this plane. My advice is to hang this plane up from the ceiling and admire the way it looks. Get 3 or 4 other planes under your belt before you come back and try to fly the Phaeton. I know that this may sound like I'm being harsh, but rather I am just trying to get the point across that this plane isn't one to start with.
Hope this helps
Ken