I really wanted to do RC planes when I was a kid, but it was the '80s and too expensive then. At one point, I saved up, and then spent all summer building a balsa free-flight plane powered by a Cox .020, real RC gear being way above my reach. At the end of all that work, I took it up to my big sister's ranch and let it rip.. it went up high enough to buy a good bit of potential energy, then winged over and gave it all to the ground, reduced to sticks and shreds of tissue in less than 10 seconds. At that point, I kind of went... naaaaah, and pushed RC flight out of my mind. Until FT and the foam board revolution brought me back. Man what a difference in build time and repairability. Crashes now cause me no stress.