Helo everyone my name is jim. I need some help, I got a P-51 Mustang EP-2 for x mass but have never assembled before. The instructions are skechy at best all 6 pages. Im in the dark hear . I don't know what glue to ues, can aneyone help hear? Im also going to need advice on what motor and all the stuf Im going to nead to make it fly (brushless motor speed controller, 4ch 4servo controller recever minny servos. and I don't know wheat elce? Even if someone would sugest a sight or something

A bit more info might help, like what plane are we talking about here - Great Planes, Top Flite, who made it? What size (wingspan), maybe ARF # (I'm assuming it's an ARF).

First step, regardless, is to find LOCAL help - either a local hobby shop and/or local flying club. They can always be a gold mine of information.

Sorry..... yes it is a ARF HeliTech is the manufacture (they dident even have the name on the box or the directions) I had to go lok it up the wings are 33in. As for local help The clocest hobby shop is 50 miles away. I realy need a set of detailed directions thanks...Jim

OK, think I've found it. This is the plane I'm looking at right now: Found it through Amazon-dot-com, at http://www.amazon.com/Mustang-EP-II-.../dp/B00DDWTXS2

I'm going to assume that you've got ZERO experience with rc planes, in which case, your Mustang is absolutely the wrong plane to even think of learning to fly with - for several reasons - - #1 being that the P51 design is low-wing, high-performance. What very little information I've managed to find out about this "kit" tells me you've got a basic plane here - no motor, no battery, no radio. Am I correct?

I certainly don't want to dissuade you by any means, I've been flying models for nearly 60 years (yeah, I'm THAT old) and positively love the hobby. But, to get your plane ready for flight will take the following:
1- assembly
2- motor
3- electronic speed control (esc)
4- battery for motor
5- radio to control the plane
6- INSTRUCTOR for flight

Assembly is easy. Balsa is an easy wood to work with, comes together with any aliphatic resin (carpenter's wood glue, Titebond's the best) for most assemblies, epoxy (I'm partial to 5-minute) for high-stress areas (motor mounts, landing gear mounts, wing joiners). Many modelers today (me included) prefer cyanoacrylates (CA glues - usually refered to as super-glue) and they're great but you need to have some air movement because of the fumes - they'll burn your eyes a bit. Most common "local" source for decent/good CA is (believe it or not) Wal-Mart, in the crafts department. Look for Titebond professional liquid (blue bottle) - it works well enough that I'm using it to restore a 40-year old plane trainer that crashed some time back. She's nowhere close to finished yet but here's a pic of her when I started and a pic of her just before I put the radio back in: She's still got the covering to go on and the engine compartment to finish out but at this point she's about 30 hours of work short of flying. By the way, this is a trainer - high wing for stability, average power, low-average performance, rather easy to fly under most circumstances. Looks like this when finished:

Your plane, underneath, is not all that much different from this one. Just follow the instructions as to which part to put together first, and follow the steps.

For items 2-5, your best sources are going to be a local hobby shop (yeah, understood about the distance - my own, which I was at today, is 65 miles away) or online through Tower Hobbies, Hobby Lobby, Hobby Zone, Nitro planes, some place like that.

Actually, Nitro Planes and Hobby Zone have trainers that will give you a sporting chance of learning to fly.

Once your plane is ready, item 6 comes into play. There is NO substitute for an experienced flier standing next to you on those first flights. It doesn't matter whether your plane's a $100 foamie with 18" wings or a $600 scale plane with 80" wings - an instructor is absolutely a MUST for those first flights.

Hi, agreed that the mustang is not the best first plane. Some have learned on the e-flite T-28 on a buddy box so if you want more sporty VS a high wing trainer that would be a good first plane and comes BnF too. So you might want to shelve the mustang for a bit.
Just a suggestion, welcome to the hobby.

TB

Hi, agreed that the mustang is not the best first plane. Some have learned on the e-flite T-28 on a buddy box so if you want more sporty VS a high wing trainer that would be a good first plane and comes BnF too. So you might want to shelve the mustang for a bit.
Just a suggestion, welcome to the hobby.

TB