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Ok, I want to see who learned on what. This is my first bird. Ugly as hell but I built it like a tank! Rudder, Elevator and throttle!

I built it from scratch, taught myself, bought AeroFLy Pro and now I have an Uproar40!

Do it yourself can be done.

Mike in STL.

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Started flying with a Goldberg Eagle 63 back in 1988. It was a kit that I built myself. Got so bored with the hobby I gave it up until 2003. No more trainers for me!

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Lt-40 OS46AX

The changed it to a taildragger and went from there

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Goldberg Falcon 56 with an ST .40 in the nose and a futaba fp-6FN radio back in 77. Seems like yesterday, but so long ago.

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Great Planes PT40 with an old OS 40FP engine. FLew great and lasted about a year and a half until the ailerons locked over when I entered a "spin". (Foolish mistake in the linkage during a previous repair. [:@] )

Live and learn!
Dennis-

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Midwest sweet stik built in 1979 and a TF Freshman trainer. I have now moved on to a Super Sportster and soon to be a 4*40

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Great Planes Super Sportster 60. OS 61FX...she really flew great and was a dream to land. A short trim flight by my instructor and then I was off to the races. Got a total of 3-1/2 flights out of her before she pancaked at full throttle. Slop in the elevator linkage failed to get her out of a loop before terra firma greeted her.[&:]

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Falcon 56 about 29-30 years ago. Think it had a K&B .40 in it with kraft radio.

If it wasn't for that success way back then RCU probably wouldn't be here today. How odd [sm=stupid.gif]

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[X(]

I always wonder where I would be now if I hadn't started flying and stuck with it for so long. Met the guy that helped me get into it as a career because of flying RC. :)

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My trusted Avistar/LA46... Still going strong and soon to be on
floats:-).... Hope it stays dry...:-(

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I learned on an EZ Boxfly .25. NOT a trainer, I got some really bad advice when I got started.

I wrecked that thing so many times, it's not even funny. It's amazing I learned to fly at all.

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I learned on a Hobbico Superstar with Super Tigre G51

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Learned to fly on and LT-40 with an os 40 la and moving on to a Sig Somethin' Extra os 46 fx

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An Avistar, may she rest in peace. I didn't crash it....my instructor did.

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Sig Scamp I built in the early 80s. Powered by an Enya .15. For those not familiar with this plane it had a balsa fuselage and foam wing. Due to the foam wing, I covered it with econokote. Radio was a 5 channel MRC. Only used 3 channels, the Scamp only had elevator and rudder, although some people modified the wing so it had ailerons. Rear wheel was fixed. This was a great plane. The color scheme worked very well, visibility was excellent.

Recently found a club member has two unbuilt kits in his shop. I'm waiting for him to decide if he will sell one to me. If he does I will put an OS 30 four stroke in it.

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First soloed on a Carl Goldberg Falcon with OS 40 FSR about 1975 or 1976. I'm still learning how to fly. Although I can generally select the area to crash in now.

Cheers,

Colin

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LT-40 with OS .46AX

Love it!!!

Took the dihedral out of the wing..love it more....

now fly Zagi's, a Thunder Tiger Lazy P-51, a couple of SPAD's and building a 4*60 with a .91 4 stroke

i LOVE this stuff!

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I started and 100% self taught myself on a Zagi. Don't have any pics of it as I just moved and it didn't make the trip. [X(]

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Tower trainer 40 with an OS .40 fp, and airtronics vanguard 4 about 8 years ago.

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Sig Kadet Mark II. Constructed over a 15 year period and flew a few months ago for the first time. Constructed a Goldberg Tiger 2 (tail dragger) over the past 2 months and am anxiously waiting for spring to fly some more.

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I learned to fly on a Sig Kadet MKII with a Supertigre .40 up front. Futaba Skysport AM 4 channel radio... channel 56 as I recall. It was covered in international orange, with eyes on the windshield, so at least one of us could see where we were going. Great plane... too bad I never took a picture of it! Got crunched by some heavy handed folks when I was living in the barracks, and due to impending deployments and other such commitments, I never fixed it.

Andy

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Phoenix Models -- Extra 300S with OS 46 AX, september last year. I had 130 flights and no crashes, just bented the landing gear, not bad, at first landing. I still like my "trainer" even if I believe now that is like a brick.

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Great Planes Partiot 40 kit [&:]. Yeah, I bit off more then I could chew.

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I first learned on a butterfly w HB21, then i really learned with a real plane a falcon 56 with a lapped os 40 and a flow thru macs muffler in 1981 ( I would never consider using that muffler today)

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GP Real Flight G2.. someone had to! lol
the plane was a TF don't remember! is that a plane? it doesn't fly anymore but i might fix it some day. one of them times were you planted it and after time it still didn't grow....