My first engine was an MDS 40, ooh way back in 1999.

I ended up with this engine as it was what the shop owner gave me at the LHS when I was buying my trainer (Precedent Hi-Boy).

Took it to the field of the club I had joined, and they all looked at me like I had the plague. Still we got it running, with one of those silly floppy Kyosho props (10x6) which it spun maddly, and generated almost some thrust.

So back to the LHS to get all things that I needed but no one tells you when buying the stuff including a proper APC prop.

Well the engine (and the plane, and the guys at the club) taught me to fly, but the main lesson I learned is that the MDS was awful (I had plenty of deadstick landing practise!), and it is worth paying more for a decent engine.

Sprink