Hello all
This is my 2nd post hear. I was more than impressed with the speed and professionalism the members answered my 1st question. I hope that if I stay in the hobby I can become an asset to this community.

I have two plains now a Nun Lang Lucky Star 20, and an older OS max Ryan.
The Ryan I bought damaged I thought I could fix it and learn to fly it. I fixed it and it fly’s great it’s just a bit much for me at this point.

So I got this Lucky Star of Ebay and started scrounging for radio gear and a power plant. After upgrading some of the hardware I soloed on its 3rd flight and my 5th flight. I am addicted now and looking for a bigger project.

It may be a little ambitious but I would like to plans build a Kedet Sr.
A buddy had one witch flue wonderfully unfortunately someone else got it before me.

I now have a set of old plans and a box of balsa. My question is; Now what?
How do I start out? I’m at a complete loss.
Do I need a build board?
HELP!!!

Welcome to RCU. I am glad to see that some people still take an interest in building there own Planes. Whether it is your first build or 100th build, patience is a quallity that will enable you to build a straight, and great flying Plane. Anytime you are building a kit over plans, or scratch building over Plans, you should setup up enough benchtop or table space to be able to work over top of your plans. You can either use wax paper as a plan protector, or better yet a piece of plexy glass. You want to make sure your building surface is solid, and flat. A little extra room to set things off to the side of you is also nice.
When building from scratch, you may find it better to cut your own kit before you begin. Go through and precut all your own pieces as shown on the plans, and check each piece for accuracy. This will be a time consuming project within itself, but if you have patience, and give great attention to detail you will end up with a kit you cut yourself, and one that will go together great. You will also finds tips and tricks here on RCU on how to cut ribs, and other parts more productively. At times it may seem like it is never going to come together, but if you just keep at it and don't get discouraged, you will end up with a great looking, and great flying Kadet Sr. you can be very proud of, and you can always carry with you the satisfaction in knowing that you can take all the credit for such a nice Plane! Good Luck with your project, and always feel free to post any questions you might have here on RCU. There are many here that are always happy to answer a question, offer a kind word of advice, or share a tip.

I want to add one more word of advice, since I just noticed this was posted in the beginners forum. When you actually start the process of building, you will get alot more responses, and alot more helpfull ideas if you post in the Kit Building Forum here on RCU. There are alot of builders who hang around that particular forum who would enjoy following your progress.

PA, congratulations, I am warning you, if you continue in this line or hobby, you WILL become a addict. Flying a plane that you built from scratch or kit is a "high" that is beyond
description.

A good flat, solid, building surface is very important. Tools are going to become very important. Let the "old hands" help you pick what tools are absolutely necessary and those with which you can purchase as you grow. You don't have to have "everything" right now. With the basics and "patience" as mentioned by ckangaroo 70, above, you can do it.

ckangaroo70, aptly put it, there are many who would enjoy helping you. If the rest of
civilization treated each other as the people in this hobby treat each other, the world would be a lot better place. Great folks.

Good Luck

AMA 821369

Two suggestions: build the stab and elevator first. This will give you a finished part in a reasonable amount of time. Also if you screw it up, it is not such a big deal to do over. [X(] Secondly, study the plans and think about the sequence of events. Make up a flow sheet organizing the sequence of things to do. A third suggestion: Break the project up into small tasks. This way, if you have a busy day, you can spend five minutes and have something specific to show for it. A day in which you have worked on building your airplane is a good day.

It's not a very big leap going from building a Kadet SR. from a kit to building one completely from only the plans. You mostly just have the added task of making the wing ribs, no big deal!
Start by making a set of wing ribs, if you can do that, the rest of the plane will be easy.

The kit for the Senior Kadet is not all that expensive and it is a great airplane. I've built three and enjoyed them all. The ease of having a box open and finding all the parts you will need inside will make the build more enjoyable. This is a very easy building type and flies so well you will enjoy every minute you have it in the air.
The power you put in it will depend on the altitude ASL of your runway. A .40 wouldn't handle a Senior for me. Our runway is 5,000'
ASL so I've had .60s in all of them which makes the take off much easier. Once airborne 1/2 throttle is usually enough. If you are at 1500' or less a .46 would be a perfect engine.

PA-10, have ya looked in to SPADS yet?
I discovered spads at one of the local fly ins. I though at first ol' dude had it made out of cardboard .Then they explained me and directed me to the spad section of this GREATEST OF ALL forum
Check out SPADS.I've been a SPAD man since

My brother is just getting in to R/C plains also. His first AC will be a SPAD from Twisted metal we bought off Ebay. I have also come up with about 25’ of PVC down spout but ceroplastic is a little tuff to come up with.

So there will defiantly be a SPAD or two in my hanger in the future.

It’s just the idea of a plans built ac appeals to me in some way. Also the handling and size of the Kedet Sr. also appeals to me.

My only concern here is... (Now I've never built a Kadet Sr. so if I'm wrong, don't be afraid to slap me)

When building from a set of plans that came with a kit, the plans often do not show all of the parts.

Example, there may be a side view of the end rib, but the inner ribs (The ones that get sheeted) may be different due to the sheeting.

That's just an example, there may be several problems like this that pop up

Good point Minnflyer. Just another reason for the beginner to remove the instructions and plans from the kit box and take them to another place and spend at least a full evening reading and studying the plans. It would also help if an experienced builder went over the instructions and plans with the new guy. Other than that building from plans alone assumes that there will not be an instruction booklet available. Some instruction sheets are actually a hindrance but not when they come from Sig.