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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....

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Goldberg Eagle II with a SuperTigre 51. Dowel rod failure sent it to it's grave too soon, but the wing still lives on! The wing has flown on a Hanger 9 Alpha since then, and now has been uncovered for mods to semi-symmetrical to mount on a extra easy 2.

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goldberg Skylane 62 with a HP.40 PDP engine and it was the most tempermental engine I have ever owned but the plane was such a sweet flyer. I sold it about 20 years ago and wish I hadn't but a friend in the Navy found me a partially built one and it sits in the shop waiting its turn and one day it will fly, ah the memories.

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A Sig Kadet back in 1973 with a K&B.40 engine and an MRC 5ch. Radio. Great 3 channel plane. Then moved into the original TopFlite Contender.

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After serveral years of Ukies it was a 1957 Airco Aero 9 that I first successfully acheved remote control after a year of trying and flyaways (what a dream that was), powered by a throttless Torp .09 and sorta guided by a kit built Babcock. Never really stopped flying ever since RC or Ukies. Got a nifty photo of the original Airco but no scanner. These are photos of the replica built about two years ago and powered with that original engine only this time one of the remarkable modern radios we all take so much for granted. This time its flown with a rudder and a pinch off to prevent those flyaways (can,t chase the thing as effectively with my wheelchair as I once did with my bicycle;)).

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Wow, it looks like I'm the only one here that learned to fly on a contraption. All you others had some kind of real looking plane, not to mention they were all glow powered. I'm impressed.

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Mine's the one on the right -- H9 Alpha .40

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Hangar 9 80" cub with a Saito 56.

I had many months of practice with AFP before this though.

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I learned on an Avistar with an OS46FX. Would post pictures of it, but I had it prior to my digital camera, and a bird hit it head on last year. Not much left, but the electronics and engine. The motor still flies a Something Extra...and the receiver is in a Tower Voyager. I filled out the organ donation card prior to the demise of the Avistar.

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My trainer was a Hobbico Avistar with and OS .50 SX... it was a great flying plane, may she RIP :) !

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Learned on a GP Big Stik 40 with an OS 40LA. Jumped up pretty quickly to a GP Extra 300 40, Kyosho Pitts S2C, Funtana 90, 90" Flybaby bipe (still not flown). Big Stik met its demise a month or so ago. Flew the tail feathers off of it! In my opinion, the construction was sub-par, the way the stab mounting point was manufactured. It was my first plane, so I didnt realize how badly made it was. After the feathers flew away, and I looked at how everything went together, I would have added some triangle stock or something on the original build! but, it served its purpose, got 300+ flights out of it, and it taught me well!
C2K

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Stirdy Birdy II JR PROPO 4CH w/ O.S. 40LA- Self taught on an old military base (Fentress Airfield VA)

I lost the plane after attempting to do an inverted loop- It smacked the ground inverted and nearly horizontal.. The damage wasn't so bad but it gave me an excuse to buy a Goldberg Tiger II kit which I flew for about five years....

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Here's pictures of the airplane I learned to fly on about 15 years ago. It's called a Black Baron Special. Both photos are from Model Airlpane News dated April 1987. I ended up crashing mine while trying to do a slow roll.[:@] It was a great plane while it lasted.

I am just getting back into rc and I found two of these kits that my wife and I are both in the process of building. If you want to see how far along we are, we have been posting our progress at the [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Here%27s_our_trainer%21_%28A_work_in_progress%29/m_2496426/tm.htm]Here's our Trainer![/link] post on RCU.

We hope to have both planes done in time for spring maiden flights. Til then, it's plenty of sanding, sniffing CA, and flying on Reflex XTR for us!

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Wow, so long ago I don't remember what it was but it had two strings coming out of the left wing and it's .049 plug was heated with a No. 6 dry cell (does this count?). Move ahead a few decades. Got a Great Planes PT-40 (kit) as a birthday gift. Serious damage once (fixed), still have it. Can't say that about a couple of other planes since then.

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Sig Kadet and dorky looking pilot, 1984.

Not only was the plane a kit. The radio was too! It was a Heathkit. I even had to put together the servos. I can see my old ham radio call sign on the wing of the Kadet.

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I learned on an Avistar Select with an OS 40la two years ago thanks to Marv at Propmasters RC Club and RCU Now it is mostly flown by my 12 year old daugher on a buddy box. The only issue is that the 40LA isn't that usable for upgrades so I left it on the Avistar. I now flya 40 Supersportster with an OS 46FX. The Avistar was great preparation for this plane. I am finishing a four star 40 (TT46pro) kit to try kit building. I have GP T34 40 (OS 46FX) and VF Edge 540 (Magnum 91) ARFs waiting for assembly this winter. I replaced my Futaba 4 channel with a 6EXA and wish now that I had known the 7C was coming since it has better mixing and programming but the 6EXA is fine.

My take on a trainer is that if you think you will be pretty quick in learning (aka have used a flight sim or play a lot of video games) get a semi-symmetric wing. If not get a flat bottom of the many from which to choose. The MOST important thing is get a good instructor.