Build the LT-40, great experience and a great flying airplane. There used to be a lot of them flying around here. The hanger9's have recently started to take over though in our area as store bought trainers. The really cool part is that with these planes you have your engine mount, landing gear and hardware already. If you don't wipe it out awesome. If you do wipe it out, that would suck, and you'll either have to repair, buy another one, or start another kit. If that's your thing great. But seeing how you already have the gear and hardware...if you want to get back in the air in a day or so with a comparibly flying airplane for about $10 Check out Spad. That is if you can handle the first grade simplicity of the web site and the functionality over beauty of the Spad original airplanes
...thanks for the compliments...I love you guys
If you think their website looks like your kids built it, wait till you see a Spad.
You know those plastic signs on everyones lawns that say "VOTE for Klanstankcwitze for City Council"?
Well one day one of them blew off it's wire stake and flew across some R/Cer's yard, so he got the bright idea to stick an engine on it. And Voila! The Spad was born. (I don't mind bashing the Spadders I deal with psychotics all day long).
But seriously, Spads ARE very durable. So if you don't mind flying something that reminds you of an Election Year, go ahead and build... or, uh FOLD one together and have a ball.
Right on!!! You guys are getting it! ...and you don't know how close you are to the truth
(it actually started because of a Pepsi sign from Wal-Mart
) You're darn right if an election sign blew into my front yard...a couple hours later it would have an engine bolted to it and I'd be having a BLAST!!! Oh yeah...and it would also end up on this amaturish web page
http://members.cox.net/deantuinstra/Signs/Signs.html
By the way, their website looks like my kid made it. sorry, I am like that; if I don't like a website, I wont waste my time on checking it out.
Again, thank you for the compliment Mr. Imcruz. You see, when I fly model airplanes, I feel like a kid. All the stresses of adult life and work fade away when I see something I envisioned while trying the sleep the night before...take to the skys the next afternoon. It's an excitment and pleasure that I cannot explain in words. It's hard to remember what it was like being a kid in a candy store...but model airplanes have a magical way of giving me that feeling again. I am truley honored that this feeling comes through in our website!
If we made money at it, maybe we would hire a professional to make it better...but we don't make a dime. All Spad is, is a few people who found a cheap way to enjoy R/C...and put how they do it on personal web space. It grew from there. We foot the bill, and charge nothing for free information. That's it.
But, there is something to it...as it's popularity is unquestionable...and that's with absolutely no advertising. Thousands of passionate Spadders...and growing...way beyond our wildest imagination. If they were really the heavy ugly pigs that some go out of their way to bash...we wouldn't have gotten 3,800,000 page hits from 84 countries last month.