john banks-lear

Thanks for the prompt replies...amazing! Dave, I like to doodle a design on paper then scale it up on a roll of ceiling paper. Back when I was active I used a combination of balsa, ply and foam, I used the latter for wings and decking etc...from that you will soon deduce that I am not a scale modeller, I just like the finished result to look similar to the real thing! We have just got back from a month in Canada with our daughter and husband. She had told him of my aviating fanatacism and so only a day after we arrived he was pushing me to design and build him a model, so I designed and built a Cub type that I had intended to run on electric, we got stumped by the electric side of the deal. We got a load of stuff from the local hobby shop but could we get the whole set up to peep and squeek correctly and run? NO ! So I could not test fly it and start to teach him....grrrr. I imagined that you just plugged it all together and opened the throttle and off ...errr no! Anyway, cutting the balsa after all these years has given me the bug again...hence my questions! Any advice would be much appreciated. John

Hi John here, After a gap of 30+ years where I have been flying full size I have hung up my helmet and goggles to return to RC. My first successful RC model was Peter Russell's STOL MK1...so that may tell you how long ago that was! I went to a model shop and suffered 'sensory overload' ! Once, as the Chairman of our local RC Club, I knew just about all there was to know...now I am utterly bewildered! I design my own models and want to get into electric flight but know nothing about it...can anyone please advise what I need to get to fly a 5lb Piper Cub type model? Glad to see Futaba radio is still available! Thanks in advance. John