UMX A-10 Thunderbolt II 30mm EDF BNF Basic EFLU6550

Brilliant flier and impressive scale detail. It is a pity that E-flite make use of such poor quality foam. The battery bay edges are extremely fragile. If you don't take great care they will break away and crumble very easily.

Haven't used the plane yet cos the weather's been bad but everything appears to function. The decals are a bit poor quality and the rear exhausts aren't painted and that makes no sense. Other than that it's a great model.

Excellent

I LOVE this plane, it’s small, has great maneuverability, looks beautiful, and is very powerful for its size (around 70mph), some things like high alphas are difficult but scale maneuvers and beyond scale maneuvers are a breeze and the plane looks excellent while doing so. **BUT THIS IS NOT A FIRST PLANE** First of all this listing of this plane is BNF Basic (Bind And Fly) which means you still need a battery, charger, and transmitter, which is pricey. Secondly this plane is not easy to land, its stall characteristics are pretty brutal at times and without a decent sized runways slowing down enough without stalling can be difficult, and if you try and hand launch it without a second person sometime a wingtip will stall and dip that side into the ground pretty nastily and without both hands it’s can be almost impossible to recover from. Also if you do get into a crash it will likely be pretty nasty because this plane is not very durable. The nose is quite weak but most of the time it’s nothing a little glue and tape can’t fix. The big one though is the steerable nose wheel likes to come loose of the foam and break and that is a pain to fix (some hot glue in the hole should fix it). Lastly if you do pick up this wonderful warbird get the Asurion protection plan that is offered with it because no matter now experienced of a pilot you are, if you are flying this plane regularly you will probably crash it (or have a rough landing) and having the peace of mind that it reallly doesn't matter if you crash it is great.

Fun jet to fly, lots of power. I've owned the bigger A-10 one too, but the small one is just as much fun. If you want a nice jet park flyer. I'd highly recommend this A-10

The CG is nose heavy with the Spektrum 850mah battery all the way back and when I picked it up up from the tail section off my CG stand it broke it off, I was not a happy camper, This may just be a wall hanger. I have never flown this plane, Money wasted on A POS of a great looking airplane.

This was my 15yr old son’s first rc plane and I wouldn’t buy it again. Started with the accessories needed. they recommend using it with horizon hobby proprietary connections. We didn’t know enough to not. But it adds up. Expect an additional $200 on top of the plane. The landing gear didn’t work right from day one, which caused us a huge problem, as it couldn’t go in a straight line. We launched it into the air to get it going and then he had to hit the power to the engines which then resulted in it taking off very fast and straight into a tree. This is partly the result of us being unable to ease our way into understanding how it worked through the throttling and takeoff process. The canopy flew off mid flight and flying into thr tree destroyed the tail. We are working on the repair but it’s a major disappointment for a $400 investment. Look elsewhere.