5 O'clock Charlie

by Jeremy Poole
(Victoria BC Canada)

I gave my son Jake his first RC plane for Xmas, unfortunatly the local hobby store sold me an advanced plane and not a starter/novice one. My mistake for not doing my homework.
Anyhow, we did our reading up on flying, did some taxi-ing runs and then went to the air. He was doing very well, got the plane up about 150ft and got it stable. The plane, a T-28 Trojan, is a fast little sucker and when he started to try some turns it got away from him and went into a death dive......the picture tells the rest.

I am off to buy some parts and get him back in the saddle. I figure if he can learn to fly with this hot rod he will be that far ahead when and if he wants to go really advanced, I just hope he learns quickly, this is an expensive hobby!!!

Thanks for your site, VERY informative and helpful!

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May 16, 2010
 Parkzone?
by: Christian

It looks like a PZ plane, I'm currently learning to fly on the spit by Parkzone...
My first ever flight with an RC plane (I only ever practised on FMS flight simulator) ended up with a near-perfect landing, if it weren't for that fact that someone had inexplicably parked their car where my proposed runway was supposed to be. Luckily, however, it survived and was able to fly 10 minutes later. (the interior airframe had been shattered at the front, I just wedged it into position)
Jan 02, 2008
 In at the deep end!
by: Pete

Oh no, poor Jake! The T-28 definitely isn't a beginners airplane, but it is a nice model though!
Yep, if Jake can learn to fly on a T-28 then he'll be way ahead - and hopefully this disaster won't be repeated too soon!
Glad you've found the site helpful Jeremy, thanks for the comment at the end ;-)

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