frager14

I've been through 3 or 4 planes now and one being a low-wing. They've all been ARF's besides a U.S. Aircore trainer kit. The Aircore kit was much different than a wood kit. The construction process in that consisted mostly of glueing pieces of plastic-like material together and folding it into the shape of your airplane. I'd like a kit that wouldn't take forever to build but has nice directions and goes together nicely.

Crashem

Tiger II
Sig 4 star 40

Both easy to build (and fly) kits that are designed for pilots who are ready to move up from a trainer.

frager14

how about the sig somethin' extra kit?

MinnFlyer

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Anything by Carl Goldberg Products, Great Planes, MosquitoBite Planes, SkyShark and most of Sig's kits (Sig has a few "Builder's Kits in their line-up that you wouldn't find fun to build, but their Something Extra, 4 Star series and a few others are excellent)

RCKen

My Feedback: (9)

Got to agree with the Sig Somethin Extra. You can build that kit almost as fast as you can apply cement. And it's a great flying plane too!!

frager14

The sig somethin' extra on tower hobbies says that it needs a 6" servo extention for the dual ailerons. How does that connect the servos? I thought you had to have a Y harness to connect the servos.

RCKen

My Feedback: (9)

You actually need both a y-harness and 2 6" servo extensions. The Somethin Extra has an aileron servo in each wing. You will need the servo extensions to get out to each wing. You will need the y-harness to be able to hook up both extensions to the receiver. If you have a computer radio you can eliminate the y-harness because you can plug one servo into the aileron channel and the other into channel 6 on the receiver. The computer radio lets you do this to control each servo with the aileron control, but it also lets you have flaperons. Flaperons are a combination of flaps and ailerons at the same time. Flaperons on the SE are really cool because you can have short takeoffs and super-slow landings.

Hope this helps.