My wife bough me one of the foam board airplane kits from FliteTest for Christmas.
(https://store.flitetest.com/flite-te...t-1053/p675949)
I ordered the motor, servos, ESC, receiver and battery from FliteTest for the airplane.
(https://store.flitetest.com/flite-te...t-3002/p674263)
I also bouty a Spektrum 6 channel receiver. My question is.
Is there a good post, or tutorial that will walk me through the process of connecting everything up?
I really hate to burn everything up before I get the chance to crash it.

I'm sure there is a tutorial somewhere, but it's all pretty self-explanatory.
1. The 3 wires from the motor go to the 3 wires with the same connectors from the ESC. It doesn't matter what order you hook them up in. If the motor runs backwards, switch any two.
2. The servo leads go to the correct channels on your radio. If you plug them in backwards, nothing will happen.
3. The battery connects to the big connector on the ESC. Do that last.

Honestly, I thought your explicnation sounded too simple and was missing connecting the power to the receiver, but after more reading... It is that simple. I guess they made it almost idiot proof. Man the technology has come a long way.
Thank you!

You're welcome. And yes, they've made it about as easy as it can be. And the other great thing is it's all pretty much standardized, so it doesn't matter which manufacturer you are using.

I'm going to suggest getting an instructor if you can before flying your plane. Foamies bounce as well as a plane can, but there's no reason to risk your investment if you don't have to. There is a huge club in Houston, so I'd expect one of their instructors would help you. Or you can check www.modelaircraft.org to find other groups around.

By way of explanation.

Most ESC's until you get into the bigger stuff, have what's called a BEC or Battery Eliminator Circuit, that takes away the need for a separate receiver battery, so that when you connect the servo lead from the ESC to the receiver, you power the receiver with a regulated 5 volts or so through that connection, that is then distributed to the servos as well.

Larger electric planes do away with that and you run a separate battery to the receiver.

two flite test videos that might help.

WOW! I learned a lot! Thanks for the link. Way better explanation than other videos I watched.
Thanks