<span style="font-family: Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: medium">It's hard to believe it has been 18 years since I've had an r/c airplane. I think my first plane was a Great Planes PT-60. I built it from kit form because there were no ARF's available at the time. At least not that I knew of. Anyhow I learned to solo with it but not long after that I lost interest and left the hobby. Probably 5 or so years after that I got a NextStar. I never flew it because my wife at the time was not really supporting and before I could get involved with a club she let her displeasure with my choice of hobby be known. After the divorce I soon got myself a Ziroli 1/4 Mustang. I got it together, got a club membership and flew this one for about three years. I had remarried during this time and had children and so on. Life was ok until that marriage fell apart and in the end $5,000.00 worth of P-51 was smashed to bits (by her) in my front yard. Now I am proud to say I have a wonderful spouse who doesn't care for the hobby but supports me none the less with my decision to re-enter the hobby. After 18 years I realize I'm gonna be a bit rusty so I just purchased a new E-Flite T-34 Mentor RTF with Spektrums DX6i transmitter to practice with since I'd hate to spend in excess of 5Gs on that new P-51 or F4U only to find out exactly how rusty I may be. I waswhat you'd call a die hard gas or nitro man but, when I found the T-34 on Horizon Hobbies website I instantly wanted it. These birds look great for their size andfrom what I've learned so far about them they aresupposed to fly really well too. And what a deal with the6 channel2.4Ghz radio system. Heck I can use that with my next project as long as Ionly need the standard 4 channels, flaps and retracts. I could even addan opening canopy slaved to my flap servo. Needles to say I'm excited and can't wait to get my newMentor. Horizon mailed itthe same day so I should have it in a few days. Yay! I'll post pics of it when it arrives. I may even add some weathering and eventually add the new electric retracts they have comeout with. A bigger motor,lipo,andesc maybe. Thesky is the limit right?</span></span>