New to foam

[jstibbards]

Just discovering foam planes and Flitetest - amazing!
I asked for Santa to bring me a new supplies to bbuild foamies... it's gonna be an amazing year!
- James
AMA 30490

 

[Merv]

Yes, foam planes are far easier to build and much tougher than balsa. A foam board plane will survive a crash that would have destroyed a balsa plane.

BALSA stants for: basically a less strong airplane

 

[BATTLEAXE]

Just discovering foam planes and Flitetest - amazing!
I asked for Santa to bring me a new supplies to bbuild foamies... it's gonna be an amazing year!
- James
AMA 30490

Welcome to the forums. What kind of plane are you looking to build first? Have you been flying before?

 

[Grifflyer]

Welcome to the forums, what plane do you plan on building first? If you haven't flown before I'd suggest you start with the tiny trainer or the mini scout.

 

[BATTLEAXE]

mini scout.

Ha, see another one who is PRO-mini scout

 

[Grifflyer]

Ha, see another one who is PRO-mini scout

Who isn't?

 

[BATTLEAXE]

Who isn't?

Oh you know I can't go and name any names (cough @buzzbomb cough), but these individuals have emotional attachments to the TT...

 

[Grifflyer]

Oh you know I can't go and name any names (cough @buzzbomb cough), but these individuals have emotional attachments to the TT...

Buzzbomb does know the mini scout isn't a racer plane right

 

[BATTLEAXE]

Buzzbomb does know the mini scout isn't a racer plane right

Sure it is, just add more power to anything and your throttle on a switch

 

[speedbirdted]

If your foam planes are stronger than your balsa planes, you suck at building with balsa

Both materials are great for different reasons. Foam because it's cheap and makes rapid prototyping insanely easy, and has less of a learning curve when building with it; but balsa planes are nice because from my experiences they tend to be more hard wearing and fly more consistently. Plus building scale from my experiences has always been easier with balsa than foam.