Movies Added! Hangar 9′ successful Alpha glow-powered Basic Trainer series has been teaching new RC pilots how to get into the air for almost a decade. The new E-flite Alpha 450 Sport looks and flies as well and as easily as its big brothers but is electric powered and the right size for Park Pilot flying. Walk on the small side and try out this new airplane in the Park Pilot Section.
Long a favorite of private pilots everywhere, the Piper Cherokee series has not always been available as a model. Great Planes has changed that with its new Cherokee ARF. This sport airplane has amazing vertical and aerobatic performance on just a 46-size engine. Walk On The Flight Line, climb in and learn about this surprising sport airplane as we try a few tricks and aerobatics.
Movies Added!Here is a truly striking looking large airplane (76 –in. span) that performs like a master aerobatic airplane. But, its slow speed, polite manners and powerful engine remove all the stress from even the most advanced maneuvers. Yet this airplane is so easy to fly that it is probably one of the best second airplanes ever designed. Walk the Flight Line and look inside this airplane in great detail.
Movies Added!Remove the training wheels from the Hangar 9 Mustang PTS and this is what you get. Add flaps and retractable landing gear and this scale fighter becomes a classic performer. Descended from a trainer, this advanced aircraft is exciting and suitable for those pilots with a few airplanes already in their logbooks. Grab a `chute, climb in the cockpit and roar off the Flight Line for some special times.
Here is a truly striking looking large airplane (76 –in. span) that performs like a master aerobatic airplane. But, its slow speed, polite manners and powerful engine remove all the stress from even the most advanced maneuvers. Yet this airplane is so easy to fly that it is probably one of the best second airplanes ever designed. Walk the Flight Line and look inside this airplane in great detail.
Movies Added! Balsa USA’s Stick 40 Plus is the newest incarnation of this time-proven kit-built aircraft. The Stick 40 Plus can be anything the builder wants it to be from a calm Basic Trainer, to a great performing sport aircraft all the way to a full-bore, honking, combat airplane. If you haven’t built a wood kit before, join us On The Flight Line to learn what it takes in our first wood kit review.
The Shulman Aviation Super Cessna is nearly in a class of its own. Light weight, nimble and yet gentle, this Advanced Trainer is definitely not your boxy airplane so common to this class. Styled after the Cessna Cardinal, this sleek aerobatic airplane is unique. Walk the Flight Line and check out this high-performance electric-powered airplane.
Movies Added! Here it finally is. The Kadet LT-40 ARF is the updated version of the best-known, most widely flown RC trainer in history. Its ancestors gave wings to tens of thousands of new RC pilots. Now, the updated, modernized Kadet LT-40 ARF marches on, ready to the same for you. Join Dick Pettit On The Flight Line and study the airplane that helped start it all.
Sport Aviator’s first twin-engined review is the capable and widely-known PBY Catalina. While the Great Planes version can be flown from grass and snow, its true home is your local lake. Join us as the Sport Aviator Flight Line moves to the water’s edge and enjoy this scale patrol bomber that flies like a Trainer.
Follow along as a real-life beginner modifies the Thunder Power OBL Trainer to Electric Power under the tutelage of an experienced electric power instructor. Also learn how the Thunder Tiger Trainer OBL performs behind a modern outrunner motor. Journey onto the quiet side of the Fight Line for this one.
