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Old 03-06-2008 | 04:25 PM
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Default RE: New E-Flite T-34 Mentor PTS

Hi sheograth

I won't guess if this is a good third plane for you or not with out knowing what the first 2 planes were.

If you haven't had an aileron plane yet you will for sure want to be on a buddy box with an instructor till you get the feel of it. If you have already flown a low wing trainer successfully you may just want some one to test fly it and trim it first.

there was another comment about how good a deal this was for $450 and the Park Zone RTF T28 was brought up. The ParkZone plane may be nice but its not in the same class, size wise or quality wise. the park zone plane is a 44 inch wing span, speed 400 class plane with a 30 oz flying weight, suitable as a park flyer and has a foam air frame. nothing wrong with this it is what it is. The E-flite plane is a 55 inch wing span, 5.2 pound flying weight 25 sized plane and is balsa and plywood construction. every thing that goes into this plane is higher end, bigger or more powerful, the motor, esc. servos, battery, and transmitter These components all cost more, a lot more
both planes are a good deal but they are very different planes.


I looked at both of these planes and ended up ordering the T34 because I wanted something larger than my 400 class planes that would handle the wind better and not be a handful to fly Other planes I considered were the E-flite Pawnee 15 and the DCH-2 Beaver 25 I went with the T43 because I wanted some thing more aerobatic.



I think Hanger 9 and EFlite are owned by the same mother company, Horizon Hobby