ORIGINAL: samguan
I have never flown a RC airplane before, had little experience with helicopter..
I saw this video on this very cool jet. Let me clear few things here:
There are basically two kinds of jet right:
1. The really expensive turbine jet
2. The cheaper duct fan jet
I don't like those planes with blades, so I guess I'm up for a jet.
I know that Losi, HPI, AE, Traxxas are well known in RC cars, but how about airplanes...
I want to get a airplane with lots of part support..
Any information/recommendation for me??
I have to figure that the issue here is that you really don't understand aircraft, but do understand cars.
Generally you do not need spare parts for RC Airplanes- at least not the real ones. There are some planes that I would say fall more into the toy category than really aircraft (just my opinion) these generally have spare parts available.
Airplanes are not like cars, if you get into trouble you cannot just stop it, once you are in the air you are committed to land at some point in some way. Imagine learning on an RC Car that does 200 MPH, you have no idea how to control it, and the smallest mistake totals it, and your $5 K investment. The more complex the plane, the more difficult to fly, mistakes happen very fast in the air, even with a trainer doing 30 mph.
Not only do the more complex planes take more knowledge to fly, they take a ton of experience to build and get set up for flight. My best guess is that you would have real trouble just getting the plane started, if you were able to do that I doubt you would be able to get it in the air. Once in the air, the plane must be trimmed out - nope, you do not have the skills to do that yet, if you get it trimmed by some miracle you will have to control it, not easy at those speeds. Finally you have to get it set up and lined up to land, I would pay a fair bit of money to see a first time flying trying to get a jet on the ground in one piece, it will not happen.
If you don't like prop planes, start with one of those little park flyer toys, or suck it up and get the Hanger 9 F-22 PTS which in theory can be used to train, although I do not think it is a great idea either.
BTW - I hope you do not feel bad about all of the negative posts, I think it is pretty normal for guys to want to go right to the Jets, I remember I walked into a hobby shop when I was about 16 and saw a big jet, that was the one I wanted, it is natural, they are very cool. But you have to be pragmatic about this stuff "before man can fly he must first walk then run, man cannot fly into flight" (Nitche). You may be surprised how much of a rush you get the first time your trainer takes to the air.
Good luck and happy landings
Manks