Any opinions on the Tower Trainer 40 kit? I want to build from a kit for my trainer, looks like its hard to beat the prive of this one. Also notice the Kit has a wingspan of 55in, compared to the 62in wingspan of the ARF version. How much difference will that make in the plane?

The difference in wing size will mean the kit plane will fly a little faster and need a bit more speed on landing. Alot will depend on how heavy your build is.
I would really be torn on buying a tower hobbies kit vs the ARF. The ARF is only 10$ more, it will cost you nearly 3 times that to cover the kit at $15ish per roll of covering material.

I bought the ARF and i think it was a grat way to go to start off with and you CANT beat the price.... i with the ARF.... build a kit for your second or third......

Thanks for the advice..

I was leaning toward building from a kit to have something to keep busy with in the afternoons after the time changes, but looks like for $70, the ARF is still cheaper than most other .40 kits anyway. I guess I'll go that route.

Yea man its worth it, then take your time to build your second while you enjoy and learn on your first plane!

Techna offers good advice. Buy a Tower Trainer 40 MkII ARF and a Great Planes Rapture .40 Kit. You can build the Rapture .40 while you learn to fly the Tower Trainer. Once you're comfortably flying your trainer and you're ready to move on, your kit-built second plane will be ready to go.

Thanks..

I'll prob order the Tower .40 ARF in the next week or so.. I might look at that Great Planes kit for a x-mas gift.

I built the Tower 40 and am now onto a four star 40. The Tower was an easy build and very stable, slow flier. For anyone building it, I wouild have given it less dihedral. I know it's a trainer but doesn't like to turn well unless you add some rudder.
Mike

If you want a nice trainer kit to build, look at the Sig LT-40. It is a quality kit, easy to build, and flies nice. I'm an intermediate flyer, and just built a LT-40 to keep a trainer in the hangar. I really enjoyed building it. The guys are correct, today an ARF is cheper to buy than building a kit, but I still enjoy building.

Hey I have a question about an old trainer that my son has rebuilt. It is a right flyer 40t trainer I bought about 20 years ago from Hobby Shack. What would be the cg of this plane ? I have forgot what the exact measurement is. Thanks.

beasley, you also have to think about the fact that if you build a kit for your first plane you will be that much better and have that much more experience building your second plane. Just a suggestion.

Austin

With any conventional trainer, you can set up the CG on the main wing spar and/or the front 1/4 to 1/3 of the wing and be fairly safe to test fly it and adjust from there. As always, a nose heavy plane will fly badly but a tail heavy plane will only fly once.

Thanks for the info. The aprox cg without use of the cg machine is 3 7/8 - to 4 inches back from the leading edge. The total width including the aelirons is 12 inches. I suppose I am close enough to fly and trim it Hmm?

I was leaning toward building from a kit, but I have almost convinced myself to go the ARF route. I'm going to wait till after the week of Thanksgiving before buying. I'm not going to be in a hurry to get in the air once I figure out which plane to get. This will be a winter project that I will be able to take my time on building. I've looked at the Tower .40 kit and Arf, Kadet LT-25 kit, and Kadet lt-40 kit and Arf.