I just compelted my first kit, a Tower Hobbies Uproar 40. I think the Uproar kits are great. They have plenty of balsa, full size plans, decent written instructions, and the plane is a simple design. I bought the kit from Tower back when it was on sale for $35.00, picked up a used Magnum .40 for $40.00 and got a great deal on a used JR 5 channel radio for $66.00. Even with parts and building supplies, I have the plane together and totally ready to fly for less than $200.00.

I haven't had the plane flown yet (I just soloed last week with my EX2), but I think it will be plenty of fun. I am not ready for any 3-D stuff yet anyway.

IMHO, the Uproar is a great plane for a first build.

Hey,

Looks like a great little kit. Every time I get a Tower flyer in the mail I spy that plane and think it would be great to build and just beat around the sky with. For the price it seems hard to pass up.
Maybe next time I will just have to purchase one!

Have fun and let us know how she flies.

Nice job!

Now, you have to start thinking about a winter project

(I think he's hooked guys!)

It looks great .

I have one of these I picked up from a swap meet that had been badly covered. I left the covering as was and just patched it up and flew it. I have to tell you that this plane is the most fun I have ever had with an RC plane, and I have 5 other planes.
Mine is a little over powered with a SuperTigre .50 on it, well a little over powered is an understatement, its ballistic. It will go vertical at half throttle and the roll rate is nuts, with the ailerons set at 1" each way.

You will have a lot of fun with this plane. My opinion is that it is the best plane for the money on the market.

Have fun..

So far I have built 5 or 6 of them. It was the only plane I thought was better then A trainer after I soloed. I still have problems with trainers for some reason???????? Your going to love this little plane but keep in mind it's A Fun Fly Plane and will do almost any stunt you can think of, just not as well as A real stunt plane. After the second kit I built I made up templates and just bought the wood and scratch built the others. I still have #2, #1 went through A tree and skidded across A mountain side, very ugly. #2 has been crashed and had the fuse broken in half just in front of the wing. I repaired it and added outside reinforcement to the repair, it flew even better then before. I crashed it again and this time the fuse was broke in half behind the wing, again, repaired and reinforced and flew even better for some reason??????? Weight perhaps??? I still have #2 and have won most my fun flys with it but have just removed the gear and engine for another plane. I have kept and am now flying #4, it is tricked out with Flaparons, Landing Mode, Snap roll and triple rates. I power them all with the OS 46 LA engines and that's way more then I need. Keep it close or it gets small in A hurry, that's why I did my crashing, I had, have, the habbit of flying too far away. Good job and have A ball with my number one plane, your going to love it.

Great job!
Very fun plane. Bought mine mostly for something to use a new OS .32SX engine on. Perfect match. I have the throws maxxed out and the roll rate is sick.
You will have a blast with yours!

It's funny. You see one Stick, you've seen 'em all. I looked at his pic on the full size, and with a small amount of imagination I see my Stinger 10 lines all over this. Guess the designers aren't moving too far away from "tried and true" stuff, and seeing as how it needs to fly or be a marketing dog, I can't say I blame them...

Doesnt matter what kit it is. Its his FIRST kit and I think it looks damned good. Better than my first attempt with my Gentle Lady. Also, JD now has the bug.
Welcome to the Kit Community, JD!

It is an older design but why mess with perfection, his first kit and he just soloed, how cool is that. I'm posting A photo of my first Up-Roar, it's the wing over the other two planes, my wife picked the colors for it, pink and gray. It was A bad call on the colors, I lost it when it got out too far from me and never saw it again. JDs has A great color job on it, I now like as much Yellow as I can put on A plane, it sticks out very well.

JD,
NICE JOB!!! If it flys as good as it looks you've got yourself a winner. Now all you have to do is think of your next project.

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It looks really good. I'm building an Uproar 60 as my second kit. My trainer was my first. I think the Uproars are really good kits for those of us who need something fairly basic so we can learn what we're doing. I recently saw an Uproar 40 fly. The roll rate was outrageous, too fast for me to count. It also could pretty much flip over its tail.

Yellow like this?
Undersides of the wing and stab are black. NEVER a problem telling top from bottom with this plane. If I had it to do over again, I would mount the engine at a 45 degree angle to put the exhaust under the wing. Havent flown it in a while. Think I will take it out next weekend!

Fubar, I'm very color blind and live and fly in the mountains and open flat spaces both, too much yellow is never enough for me. The way JD has his plane covered I can see it OK so it should be good for most people. The photos are of my Krier Kraft, again , the wife saw A photo of an AeroMaster and fell in love with the colors so I copied it. The orange seemed to soak up the yellow for me so it was hard to see unless it was kept close. I put it into the ground A couple of weeks ago. Dumb thumbs or glitch???? JD built A super little plane and I think everyone should always have an Up-Roar in the hanger, in my case more then one. Like you, I don't take it out enough anymore and last week I was all over the sky with mine on the first flight, next time I will remember to use low rates on it until I get the feel back for it, mine is set up beyond the max and can get away from me in A hart blink.

Too bad. A very nice looking plane! I dont think you would have problems seeing the color scheme on mine as the bottom of the wing and stab are black. When it rolls its bright/dark/bright/dark/bright/dark/bright even in cloudy conditions.
I think one of the worst color combos, while looking *****in on the ground, would have to be the Ultra Stick 60 ARF. When in the air it is VERY difficult to tell top from bottom with the transparent yellow. The solid blue on the top just shows thru the yellow of the bottom.

MY Up-Roar that I fly now, the blue, white stars, has one side wing of the bottom in white and the other in red. The big trick for me is keeping them close enough to me. I'm just as bad about it with giants too but with them they are now about A mile out and look like A 40. Mounting my engines at 45 degrees only makes the engine snot flow heavy on the bottom of the wing. I have used the ehaust deflectors in the past but one of the engines didn't run well with them and I can't remember which engine so I just wipe them down good at the end of the day