Recommend me a RC aircraft for a beginner

KeRbDoG

Hey all,
I think I've posted before, but I'm looking to get into the RC aircraft world.
I've had small toy RCs in the past, now looking to get either a good electric or a budget fuel powered aeroplane.

So, its gotta be easy to put together but not a cheap-n-nasty "ready to fly" RC plane.
I'm cool if its a fuel unit, once I can buy it in a kit with everything needed,
RC transmitter/receiver, servos, engine etc.

Cheers!

spadder

If your going electric look at the Multiplex range- very nice kits,
if your going I.C. look at the Blackhorse range, get an O.S. engine and a 2.4ghz radio.

If you want to build it yourself, I would strongly recommend SPADS, these things are great. I've built loads of them.

http://www.spadtothebone.com/freeplans.htm

silverbullitt

Not to be bombarding your thread with an advert ,
but i have a boomerang 40 trainer at home that i want to sell , its fully assembled and ready to go , all it needs is for the engine to be run in and your airborne ,
it comes with a 6 channel radio (cant remember the name, but the guy in the model shop in waterford highly recommended it) power torque starter ,and gel battery .fuel etc, and all the other bits and pieces

reason for sale is that i was involved in an industrial accident at christmas and got burned pretty bad and broke my arm. In the ensuing months of work i got increasingly bored so i got the plane as a project .
Unfortunately just at the time i had it completed and ready for engine tests , i went back to work and moved in with the girlfriend (who has no room to store it in the flat)

let me know if your interested
cheers
colin

air

Multiplex Easy Star, only way to go really IMO, forget about smelly noisy IC.

KeRbDoG

silverbullitt wrote: »

Not to be bombarding your thread with an advert ,
but i have a boomerang 40 trainer at home that i want to sell , its fully assembled and ready to go , all it needs is for the engine to be run in and your airborne ,
it comes with a 6 channel radio (cant remember the name, but the guy in the model shop in waterford highly recommended it) power torque starter ,and gel battery .fuel etc, and all the other bits and pieces

reason for sale is that i was involved in an industrial accident at christmas and got burned pretty bad and broke my arm. In the ensuing months of work i got increasingly bored so i got the plane as a project .
Unfortunately just at the time i had it completed and ready for engine tests , i went back to work and moved in with the girlfriend (who has no room to store it in the flat)

let me know if your interested
cheers
colin

I'm interested twill PM yea

Bruthal

air wrote: »

Multiplex Easy Star, only way to go really IMO, forget about smelly noisy IC.

well i think even easier to get going is parkzone radian, everything ready to go in one box, spectrum radio and all, its a 2 meter wing span glider with electric brushless motor

have a look at photos from it here, one i stuck a camera onto, other aircraft on the page too

Im flyin the planes 20 years, I currently have a nitro powered P51 mustang and 2 trex helicopters, and recently the radian. The radian is brilliant to start off with, and its not very expensive at all considering everything is with it. Its nice and quiet as well. And it will fly for half hour on a battery charge, and on a day with thermals we`ve got close to an hour,

www.youtube.com/user/robbie77300

cvanscho

The EasyStar has one huge advantage over the Radian and others of it's kind (EasyGlider, etc.): the motor and prop are mounted facing backwards above the fuselage. Not having the motor and prop in the nose is a major advantage when learning to fly, as nose-first "landings" are inevitable:D!

Bruthal

cvanscho wrote: »

The EasyStar has one huge advantage over the Radian and others of it's kind (EasyGlider, etc.): the motor and prop are mounted facing backwards above the fuselage. Not having the motor and prop in the nose is a major advantage when learning to fly, as nose-first "landings" are inevitable:D!

Well that may be, but the vast majority of aircraft have the prop at the front, and when learning with an instructor it should`t be too much of a disadvantage with the prop at front, ive had a few people fly the radian having never flown before and it was`t much trouble for them to learn with it. Thats not to say its not of some benifit to have the prop in the easy glider position, but i would`t say its a huge advantage. The brushless motor and everything you need in one box with the radian is hard to beat for somone starting off.