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I used to be big into the foam-board electric planes a bunch of years ago. Loved building one in an afternoon, flying it, crashing it, fixing it, building another one out of $4 of foam board when the old one got too squishy... I used to fly almost exclusively the FT Bloody Wonder, I could almost cut a new one out by heart.
I'm always tempted to fly again, but I just have SO many hobbies and so little space. I would have to hang them from the ceiling in my living room or something... Honestly wouldn't be the worst thing.
What airframe(s) do you fly?
That does indeed look a little too squishy!
This one's a 74" Extreme Flight Laser. It's a blast. It was a busy day at the field but I got 3 flights in today.
I also have an E-Flight Ultimate 3D for days I don't want to mess with the big noisy gas airplane.
I've always wanted a trainer with a buddy box to teach other people how to fly, and got a SIG Kadet LT-40 ARF in the mail today. I have a young one who's too young to fly it, but he's pretty excited to help put it together.
I've always been so impressed with those large planes! My dad used to take my brother and I to a flying field when we were younger just to watch.
I'm much too anxious a person in general to fly something so large and complex. The foam was perfect for me haha. It was also easy to teach people how to fly, I'd just hand the transmitter to people. That's how I got my dad into it, he's still flying occasionally these days.
That Kadet is such a classic, classic design. If you were to take an average of every RC plane ever flown, it'd probably look exactly like that.
Yeah, I love the Kadet. SIG was inactive for a long time but just restarted operations so you can buy a lot of their classic kits and ARFs on their website again.
I had a Kadet LT-40 kit that I built when I was in high school, but I stopped when I got to the step of covering it, so it never got finished. So this model has some nostalgia for me. It'll be electric and have plenty of power, so I imagine even an intermediate pilot like myself can still have fun with it.