[carosel43]

forager, r/c flying is not out of anyones league, you might not be able to afford some of the bigger models but you should be able to get something, especially with the park fly aircraft that are about these days (i will be starting a thread on this soon btw) as for the models i built them all from kits, little bits of wood and foam glued together in the vague shape of an aeroplane, they were then covered in heatshrink covering and then painted or flown in the colour of the covering. the only exception to this is the harmony (see pics) thats an ARTF or Almost Ready To fly and basically you get 2 wings, a fuz and tail etc etc all built for you, you just have to arrange them and fly!

as for crashes i have been lucky, i am good enough to now not crash to many planes, the wayfarer has had the most accidents but its always been an easy fix, but eventually you are glueing the glue and its time to move on. my biggest loss has been the big mustang on that album, i bought it 2nd hand and spend 6 months and a few hundred quid tarting it up, adding retracts, flaps, new engine etc etc, i then flew it and had problems with the retract units coming out, i fixed that and got everything perfect, then on its 5th flight, the first with everything perfect the reciever in the aircraft failed, the aircraft rolled inverted and went into a 45' nose down attitude and went straight into a field from about 150-200 feet carving a trench 2 meters long in the ground, somehow the aircraft more or less servived and is now undergoing repairs