Does anyone have any info on this trainer? [link=http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXKH24&P=0]U.S. AirCore 40 Kit[/link]

Is there any place I can find a downloadable manual for it to see how it is built or does anyone know of a build thread for it?
Will this [link=http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXFV71&P=ML]Super Tigre .45[/link] engine be OK for this trainer?

I would really like to see detailed info on this kit before possibly buying, I need info to decide if it's for me or not.

Thank you.

~ Steve

This would not be my first choice. The Tower Hobbies Tower Trainer .40 Mk II ARF is a much better choice for a trainer, and it's about the same price when you factor in the cost of the wheels and wheel collars that aren't included with the U.S. Air Core kit.

The Super Tigre G-45 is an excellent choice for a very powerful engine and a great value.

Only negative is it's made out of corrugated plastic cardboard like a SPAD and is a little heavier than a normal trainer as a result. Super Tiger 45 should be fine, don't use a 40. I don't have one but a member of my club flies the sport version with a shorter wing span. You could look on the SPAD forum and probably get a better answer.
John

if you already have it it's fine. It will be a bit heavier. That will cause it to have a faster slowest air speed. but it will work OK.

It's very tough and very ugly. However, it will make a decent trainer. As some have already mentioned, there are better trainers, but none tougher. This thing will survive a hit against Gibraltar! On the down side, it does land a little faster and some of the more basic trainers, and it's hard to repair, IF you can break it!

If you already have it, build and fly it like you stole it.

Dr.1

There used to be a joke about the Shorts 330 airliner. Its this really square thing that was built in Ireland years ago. The joke was, that it looked like they threw the plane away and kept the box it came in.

Well, thats what the aircore trainer is. The box it should have come in. Its junk !! It flys, but almost anything that remotely looks like an airplane WIll fly. It does not have the good qualties that a new pilot wants and needs.

Back when there was RC Online I was building a trainer and trying to learn everything related to RC. I had purchased a Lanier ST40 trainer kit with all the components including an OS 40LA.

However everything I read on line said the perfect trainer was a Sig LT40. People were saying the OS 40 LA was a pig. So I bought a Sig LT 40 ARF and a Thunder Tiger 46 Pro. I put it together secure in the knowledge that I had the best trainer on the market. That's what I soloed with.

A couple of seasons go by and I'm seeing Hobbico Superstars and Avistars at the field. Guess what they fly just fine too. Then a guy came with a Arising Star ARF and an OS 40 LA. I trained him on it. Yes the 40 LA took more field to take off in, but it wasn't that bad. The Star only had a 63" wingspan instead of the touted LT 40 71" span but it flew just fine.

I don't think there is a bad trainer on the market when used as a trainer. I know some I would fiberglass the wings together with because they have such a small dihedral brace or reinforce the landing gear but when used as a trainer they all work.

Having flown my buddies SPADS which still have the sign marking on them the US Aircore will be fine. Darn SPAD was heavy, ugly but guess what - it flew great.

Just my two cents.
John

hay the kyosho trainers are very well built that is my choice put the covering film is very poor

Steve, Thought you were going to buy an ARF. You can pick up a nice one for that price.

Yes I am , this was my first post before the ARF post. I have decided against this one, and I will be getting an ARF.

it's okay..depend how you look at it.
Sometimes you have to come it hot on extras , mustangs.
Good lord I can eat my lunch and take a nap waiting for a senior kadet to land.lol

Plus it's not going to get toss around as much in windy days.

Yes it will cost you more, such as a duraplan..but it's actually cheaper after a crash.lol
and it looks nice and purdier after a crash too.
You might advance faster...flying is easy landings are hard.
I know people that can't past the landing stage becuase..well lack of practice of touch and go.
procedure truns, sliping or jsut abort the landing when it's not right
One bad touch on a wood model and it's not going to fly right. and it'll end up a brick anyways
after all the epoxy.lol 1-2 months of repairs or buying anohter model..then a posibility of not flying again

Don't worry about your first model being purdy
You'll be a much better R/C pilot flying a brick at lower speed when the controls are slugish.
Flying fast is much easier and that's the trouble most new pilot gets into.

I flew the heck out of my duraplan, crashed it into tree, fences..etc
it wasn't that ugly..at 2-3 mistakes high all i see is a T looking contraption.
it's wierd how arf don't have checkers or contras colors on the bottom of thier wing.