Picked this plane up for a friend that just crashed his SSE after he had just rebuilt it. He decided not to rebuild again and gave me the tail from the cockpit back and both wings which were all in relatively good condition so with a new fuse, I have a new plane.

Does anyone know what it is and who made it?

Gary

I believe that's the "RCM Trainer 40". That one could have been built from plans, although a couple of companies did make kit and arf versions. Google RCM Trainer.

This link http://www.hobbypeople.net/gallery/170730.asp shows a "not so great" picture of the Modeltech ARF version of the RCM Trainer.

I don't recall an RCM Trainer with a flat airfoil? Weren't these airfoils semi-symetrical or symetrical?

Jim

Yep. RCM 40 was dead flat. But the nose doesn't look the same, trailing edge was almost flush to the fuselage (no "pseudo rear windscreen"), and the RCM 40 has more of a rake to the vertical stab.

The RCM Basic Trainer had the flat bottom airfoil and the rear of wing sat flush with the rear fusalage. The rudder was swept back and it was .40 powered. Then there was the RCM Trainer 60 which had a symetrical airfoil and the wing sat on a "cabin". It was .60 powered and the rudder was swept back in the front and swept forward at the rear.

I built the RCM Trainer 60 in 1973 from a Bridi kit and learned to fly with it. I had a Fox Eagle I .60 in it (which I still have) and it flew great.

Bruce