4$ feet?Well,I am thinking of something a bit more modest.A plane so large sounds very expensive.
You will crash, period. The Fun Cub is very durable, I can't believe it is still flying. You can build it in about a day. Ours has lasted 2 years, with many crashes. They are set up like a bush plane, with huge tires, you don't need an improved runway to fly from, they are kind of like a 4 wheel drive plane, lol! (on the ground of course) The wingspan is just under 4 feet, I would say. Can't speak highly enough of them. If you install the optional flaps, they will take off and land in very short distances. From pretty rough terrain.
Yes plus it takes so long to build them that a crash(which is very likely)would be difficult to repair.
Get the Fun Cub. Just run a search on "Fun Cub RC Airplane". They are good trainers, and you will not outgrow it, good for advanced to beginner. They are almost indestructable too, my wife and I learned on one, and we still have it and fly it, and we still like it so much we got another one too. We have many planes now, but the Fun Cub is a great plane. Get a Simulator too, we use Phoenix, and it comes with a very good 6 channel radio. Get a larger plane, so you can fly very high and still see it. (three mistakes high, lol!) Get 4 channel, rudder, elevator, throttle, and ailerons, and learn to fly full house. The Gillows planes are fun to build, but too small and fragil to fly RC with, especially for a beginner. Good luck, it is a facinating hobby.
I am thinking the Horizon Piper Cub ot Stratos twin engine .
I have maybe ten that are flight ready. Have not been doing it lately, but I enjoy the hobby. Biggest is 102" Piper Cub.
Even the cheaper radios of today are very reliable. Start with anything cheap to learn To fly. Over the years I have had people bring a plane they worked on for a year and ask if someone would help them learn. Nobody wants to teach on anything real nice.
Good luck with it. Lotsa fun.
Jon
Yeah Monokote is a little heavier used for larger planes.
I built a couple of Guillow balsa and tissue paper kits as a kid. Tried to power one of them with a Jetex engine. Didn't work out, but it was FUN.
My older son was into R.C. planes for a while. he used an iron-on material called "monocoat" or something like that to skin his planes.
I used Microlite covering material that you apply with a sealing iron.That stuff is great and more durable than the tissue.
I remember buying and building balsa wood airplanes in my youth and putting a 049 engine on them and flying them and if the wrecked and broke that was 1/2 the fun of rebuilding them or customizing them into some new plane. But now days It would be built as a static modle I would get dizzy to fast trying to fly it with the strings lol
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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TIssue paper skin?
Very wise, especially getting a foam R/C trainer. Go through all the effort to build a Guillows plane, then wreck it, and you may want to slash your wrists!
I will keep it static.I ordered a Dehavilid Beaver that I may fly...after i get a foam R/c plane and learn how to do so.
Nice job! I used to do a lot of aircraft modeling years ago, World War One types, but never had the patience to go the balsa wood route. I stuck with plastic.
PS: Are you going to try to fly it, or just keep it static?
Old school balsa plane.
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