Nothing special, just a pic of my first gas plane. The Thunder Tiger Easy Trainer .40

First time flight today which was successful. Very happy with the Easy Trainer...

Congrats man!..a new plane is always fun....Rog

Looks like the perfect way to get started flying glow planes. Thunder Tiger makes great airframes and engines, you should have a lot of fun with your Easy Trainer!

Nice looking Trainer, You're going to have lots of fun with!

Thanks guys. Yeah very easy to fly, ive got the O.S. .40LA fitted and is running great. I prefered OS over Thunder Tiger.

This week im picking up a new kit, going to get the Avistar with Monokote ARTF kit. What you guys think about the Avistar?, heard it was an excellent trainer and aerobatic.

That young man in the picture with your airplane must be you?
Nice looking plane.
My instructor has an Avistar and yes it is very aerobatic.
Just curious, being your first glow plane and all, what exactly makes you prefer OS over TT?

great looking plane, needs more rubber bands if going flying

Personally I love both engines, i use Thunder Tiger in one my my off road stadium trucks. Nice little engines and very realible..hold a tune quite well, etc etc. But I have personally never owned an O.S. and wanted to try. Since the majority of plane owners prefer O.S. because of there realiblity and durability I think thats why i chose an O.S.

Yeah thats me in the pic...

Maybe it's an optical illusion but make sure the aileron hinge line is parallel to the elevator hinge line - measure back from the left wing to the left stab and compare that to a like measurement of the right wing to the right stab. If not parallel then it adversely affects the trim of the model.

Interesting comment re. your personal preference based on no experience, & the alledged preferences of others wrt OS & TT.


Currently owning more than a few engines from both manufacturers, & having owned more than a few in the past 50+ years of modelling, IMO there is absolutely no contest -- for me it's TT by a landslide.

I found that comment rather interesting as well. I don't own any TT engines yet but I sure wish I did. I have a number of OS engines & they are good engines. I like them all, but I've been so impressed with the performance of many of my friends TT engines that I've come to believe they give you a little more bang for your buck. At least here in the states where there is a $27 difference in price between the OS46AX & the TTPRO46. I read in one of these forums just the other day that in Aus. OS & TT are priced the same. Here in the states there is a noticeable price difference with OS being the more expensive engine. The next 46 or 61 engine I buy will be a TT PRO.

I've been flying the Hobbico Avistar all this year. Great flying plane, it handles the windy conditions well, landing nice. Even capable of some nice aerobatics. If your first flight was just a couple of days ago, why rush out and buy another high wing trainer?

You know I was looking at that also, however, I had a tt t-2000 and tower trainer... and the wing would look like that after flying... I would always keep it straight but when I landed, it would be off a bit........ strange.

My Hobbico Brightstar, that I bought used and was heavily damaged in shipping, after repairs is way off on that alignment (Horizontal stab is 1/2" closer to the wing on one side) and the vertical stab leans about 10 degrees to one side. Oddly enough it trimed out fine, as is, and flies great.
Main thing, I think, is that the surfaces are flat to direction of airflow. (inline with fuselage)

Yeah, that what I thought too.. they all flew fine and I just flew them that way... of course I would make sure it was straight before I took off tho.

first thing i checked before taking off....looked ok to me, didnt really need trimming. I trimmed everything on the ground before taking off. It was ok, not complaining.

In terms of the engine, im glad most of you agree that the Thunder Tigers are good engines cause ive always liked TT but thought they didnt live up to O.S. engines. Glad to see you's all agree TT is good then.

I really want a second plane just in case of a crash. Thats why im asking about the engines, cause maybe i will give the TT a go. I already have a bunch of new servos that are Hitech and a brand new Hitech remote which is programmable for 5 planes. So im all set...

I have only used tt and os engines and I never had a problem with either one. I have tt gp .40, .42 and os .46la and .65 la and a k&b.65 sportster new in box. I have another tt motor but dont remember what size. [&:]

sweet, well I might try TT engine then. Like I said, ive used em in my cars and I didnt have a problem with them, just thought the Plane engines were different and wanted to know if they were ok.