I fly ARFs, kits and anything else including the R/C simulator I have in
my computer. I have a radio with a trainer cord and slave box just as you
described and I teach anyone that wants to learn on a Sig Senior Kadet.
It's a huge (80" wingspan) kite. It's powered by a .70 4 cycle O.S.
engine. You can walk next to it while you land it in a light headwind. I
also into antique R/C flying and particularly like single channel
flappers. I have 6 working Ace Pulse Commanders and 3 working (one new in
the box) Mattel single channel outfits. Right now I am finishing up a Carl
Goldberg Jr. Falcon with an Ace single channel radio and Cox .049 engine.
Should be a great flyer. It never fails at the flying field that someone
new to R/C will walk up and ask me what is wrong with my radio because the
rudder is constantly flapping back and forth. I just pick up the airplane
with the engine running launch it into the air and ask him, "what?" over
the sound of the Cox turning 14K rpm. The look on his face is priceless.
He is even more astonished that I can do almost anything his 4 channel
can do, except throttle down. He is even more amazed when I land it in my
hand. Oh, yes, I've had everything that R/C flys from single channel to
ducted fan jets, but I keep coming back to the simple stuff.
Mike
derf
> I love toy planes. I built a Kombat 40 but never flew it. I sold it to a
> nice granddad who wanted to do some flying with his young grandson. I
> made
> him a sweet deal. Building it was most of the fun for me. I taxied it
> around the yard but never actually flew mine. I got to fly one that
> another
> guy and his son had. I mentioned that I was thinking of getting into RC
> and
> that I had seen the Kombat 40. The older guy said: "Oh, really, a
> Kombat?"
> "You wanna fly one?" 10 minutes later I was hooked up to a training radio
> and flying the plane.
> If you want to try RC planes then this is the thing to start with:
>
> http://www.kombat40.com/
>
> I stop at Micheal's periodically and get Balsa planes for me and any kids
> I
> encounter.
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