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Old 05-29-2007 | 09:23 AM
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superflea
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From: raymond, WA
Default RE: beginner plane

ORIGINAL: d_khaw

Gents - this is kind of a dream stealer after reading your miserable but truthful replies. I am based in Papua New Guinea and have no means of joining a RC club here since they are non-existance, nor have RC modellers around. I mess around with R/C buggies and C/L planes though - build and fly them myself. I have now obtained a 4 channel radio and am tempted to build a R/C plane to learn fly myself. I have lots of R/C glo engines in my collection. Surely, someone could recommend me a simple plane to start flying with? Should I start off with 3 channels or 4 channels? My only experience is an hr with a R/C plane flyer a few months ago when visiting Australia and he was teaching me how to turn the plane with ailerons + slight elevator up, but never turn with rudder! I feel that I need to go out to the field and try something out. Can someone help out with any positive experience please?

Thanks
Daniel



Well if you really have no one to help out then the best I can think of is the flying tanks that is us aircore. Now I doubt any one on these boards has ever recomended these planes before, lord knows I haven't, but I have seen one fly and crash, and fly and crash..... I'm talking about straight in to asphalt and back in the air in a few minutes of epoxy cure time. hitting a wing on a pole at full speed, replacing rubber bands, prop and smooshing the dent out of the wing.


http://www.usaircore.com/

http://www.sover.net/~badmojo/pages/aircore.html


Of course it is just a SPAD and you could build your own from scratch pretty easily and cheaply.