your right the muffler is a flow through why is that not allowed?

Too noisy. Duh!! Do cops/neighbors prefer straight pipes or mufflers? I wouldn't use the Webra on a trainer. Be a shame to damage it on a trainer crash. The 40 Alpha is cheaper to run. The 60 is a bit more stable, more expensive and easier to see. Either is fine.

Save the engine starting for when you get to the flying field. If your truck is nitro take all of the stuff you use for it to the field and some 10% or 15% nitro fuel. The Alpha will like that blend too. The guys at the field will be happy to help you start it up. Half of them will try to buy it from you, especially the engine. Try to rig a way to control the engine throttle before you get there to make it easy.

The battery attached to the glow plug was one way they used to keep the plug hot and avoid flameouts at lower power settings. Go ahead and remove that.

how loud can a little .61 be anyway.

Just ask the neighbors. Between the actual loudness, the pitch (frequency), the prop noise, etc it can be high enough to damage hearing. To some the sound is sweet and to others it's annoying. This is a high RPM screamer with a LOT of power.

If you live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of senior citizens around, you might ask them to turn their hearing aides off. I regularly/sometimes/often (depending on who you talk to) fire up an engine on my patio. I wear hearing aides in both ears. I have to take them out. But my neighbors, who don't have the option of removing their hearing have to contend with the 'noise.'

I think they tolerate me because I am always willing to lend a hand, a tool, fix something, or welcome them in. Otherwise my butt might be red from all the kicking.

But it's the same with my router table, or table saw, chop saw, or any of the other power tools. Just as Bruce says, it's a comforting hum to me, but it can be a pain to the neighbors. Everytime I think of the noise, I'm reminded of the commercial where the guy is awakened by the neighbor hammering. In the commercial he goes over and shows Mr. Hammer how quiet and easy this glue product is. At the end of the commercial he grabs the hammer and glues it to the ceiling.

I wouldn't want my planes up there. Unless they are flying.

That's a really nice plane, once you get into this hobby further, you'll see just how good of a deal you got on that, the person selling it obviously was clueless, one of the servo's alone is worth $20.00.

I'd opt to getting something that's even less tame then that one before attempting to fly it, this way you aren't risking as much destroying, what looks like a vintage plane, heck, even then, you may decide to keep shelved for nostalga purposes alone.

Actually the servos are so old and slow that they are virtually worthless.

As for "getting something that's even less tame then" perhaps you meant "more" tame?

I started to strip it down and so far it looks good. what color would you paint this plane? I have to wait to the end of the month before I buy a new plane I'm going with the alpha 60. how much of a bad ass plane is this like is this a top skill level. I look at it sitting in my basement and I'm like what does this look like in the sky. I'm not a bone head and won't fly this untill I get some mad hours under my belt. this is cool I never got a great deal like this before. I don't want to look at my rc car and trucks I think I cought a bug.

I know someone looking for that plane and would pay you a good price for it.Probably enough to get you a new trainer.....

comerford, you've got time, so why not do something cool like a "Blue Angels" scheme or a flag? So many possibilities! I've got one of these hanging in my shop. Helps out with the "creative flameout".

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXJA14&P=7

Just remember that you need to keep the paint light. Extra weight will make it harder to fly.

There is a lot of dings on the under side and a hole from the switch for the glow plug, what is the best way to fill the hole and dings. I don't think I'm going to sell I like even more and the more I look at it the more time I spend on fixing it. The wing does not have a mark on it but the tail section had a repair and needs to be redone. I hope to have it striped down by the end of next week I will post pics and ask a lot of questions.

If you don't mind spending some $ on paint, the Nelson paints are extremely light and easy to use since they're waterbased. Being so much lighter means you can mess up some. (great for inexperienced painters!) Read the instructions, it doesn't spray like regular paint.
Be careful with fillers. What you can use will depend on your paint choice. I've seen guys use lightweight spackle, but that doesn't seem like a good choice for waterbased paints. If it's not large dings, pick up some of the red glaze in a tube from the auto parts store. It's heavy, but impervious to most stuff. Use it sparingly.
Fill holes by cutting a piece of balsa the same size and thickness as the hole and glue in place. If you have access to the backside, a backer will make it much easier to get it straight. In a pinch, you can stick your patch to a piece of tape to hold it in place.

Here's the paint gun I use: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92126

Here's the paint I use: http://www.nelsonhobby.com/paint.html