I learned a lot about flying with this plane. I have hot glued back together numerous times. Saturday I decided to remove the old glue and epoxy the engine mount in properly. That all went really well. Put it all back together and did a pre flight check of all the control surfaces and motor etc... The motor spun up just fine, at least for a moment. then the motor kept running and the prop wasn't spinning. Not good. removed the prop and cowl to investigate. This a gear drive brushless motor, not direct. Anyway, discovered that the shaft between the motor and the gear had snapped in half (too many crashes I suppose). picked a new motor at the LHS last night. 39.00!! 42 with tax. Half way home I remembered that I still have the os 46 LA. And thought " man for 50 more dollars I could've bought an ARF that I could've put the the 46 in". I almost turned around and took the motor back and bought another plane. Oh well probably what I should've done. but the foam typhoon is alot of fun. Just don't know how much longer it will survive my abuse! ALl these decisions, all the money! Man what a hobby!

The Typhoon 2 3D is indeed a fun plane.

I think that I spent it's total cost on replacement motors...

That was until I changed out the crappy motor they included for an similiar sized Inrunner I had laying around.

After that no more replacement motors...

However if I tally up the replaced fuse, cowls, gear drives, etc... well I could have had a "V8"!

Now I know better.

Yeah thought about different motor. when I first hooked the wires back up the motor ran backwards, The color coded wires are nice! HA! Yeah if they matched the ECS, I got it figured it out. She's ready to fly and crash again! But it is just fun!! haven't replaced the fues yet, but have thought about it. Would never dream of doing some of things that I do with that plane with my scale models, that's for sure. As I said before I have learned alot with it. It has been one of my best flight instructors.

Ihave the same plane and love mine. The color of the wires to the motor mean nothing. There is no set combination. You can plug them in in any order, any color to any color, doen't matter. If it runs backwards, just witch two of the wires and it will run forward. The instructions will also tell you this. Did the same thing to mine after sestroying the gear drive. Bent the shaft, stripped the teeth on the plastic gear. If you are using the stock radio that came with it, get rid of it! Go buy the DX6i radio and a AR6100 or AR6200 reciever. You will be glad you did!
You WILLmove to glow, I promise you (you are already showing signs), you are now hooked and will want more and better planes. The DX6i radio is a 2.4 Ghz radio with the "stubby" antanna and won't easilly be broken or left down. You can fly up to 10 differen airplanes with this one transmitter.
I now fly 3 planes with mine, my old THawk, My Typhoon 2 3D and now my Eagle 63 .46 size trainer. Rock solid and fool proof!

Thanks, moved to glow a long time ago, I have a Tucano with the fox 45 BB , a Super Decathlon with an OS 55AX and my trusty ole hangar nine easy 2 trainer with a EVO 46 NT. I'm totally hooked on the hobby from all ends. THe typhoon is fun and I can fly it anywhere.

Now that I have moved on to glow as well, I find the typhoon almost too slow. I am not so afraid to "yank" it around. Iam a lot more replaxed flying it than I am my trainer. But I am becoming more and more relaxed with it. Let me tell you, my wife is thrilled!