I taught my 7 year old grandson to fly last year, a GLOBAL "RIGHTFLYER 40t" We have the GOLDBERG eagle 2 and one other one that I forgot the name of,but his favorite is the RIGHTFLYER, I just returned to service for his second plane a HANGER NINE ADVANCE 40, This plane is advertised by H-9 as an aerobatics trainer, HANGER NINE has given it way too much credit. It's not that advanced! it rolls very slow and sloppy,will not hold a knife edge, etc. BUT this is a excellent 2nd trainer (strictly my opinion) It is forgiving in the air and It has trike gear for reassuring ground handling. Even though it has SEMI-SYMETRICAL wing, it floats in for those second plane landings, My grandson has flown it a few times and likes the smoothness of it. I had converted it to tail dragger,and had a Thunder Tiger PRO 46 with tuned pipe, I switched it back to trike gear and a OS 46 la. and put one of his receivers in it.

I really believe one of the best "SECOND AIRPLANES" of all time is/was the R.C.M. FUNSTER, it was a large low wing model, built light so it would fly on a 40 size engine but any bushing 60/65 was ideal (k&b 65 sportster). An aquaintance at the field had one when I was starting to fly and had only been soloing for a couple of weeks, he handed me the sticks while the plane was in the air, I really "ENJOYED" how smooth it was,yet the BOTTOM WING gave it more response. You could keep a new "younger" persons interest because of the different variations you could build the plane, (you could make it look like WAR BIRDS, a P-40 a MIG something or other, and a few other things) It was built with the TELEMASTER flat bottom WING and was kitted by HOBBY LOBBY for years.. Anyone who has experience with this plane will I'm sure agree it was a fun plane just to fly around. (non aerobatic) It surprised me when HOBBY LOBBY dropped it. (HINT HINT, ANN MARIE)
I had one,still do have the fuselage,(son in law dorked the wing, I need to build another) I had an OS 70 FS in it. It's retired in the garage, I just may revive it for GRANDSON and ME...

RON in NEVADA