My suggestion would be to get one plane and keep trying with just one plane. If you crash, get another just like it. I learned to fly on a balsa USA sick 40. The fuse on the plane is just 2 long maple spars with some tail feathers and a plywood box for the wing to sit on and to hold the electronics. It cost around 70 bucks and you can buy another wing for about 20 bucks. I rebuilt the fuse on mine with wood from hobby lobby 5 or six times before I crashed it and totaled it completely. So I just ordered another wing and bought the wood from hobby lobby and used my drawings and built a new fuse from scratch. You paint the fuse and only have to cover the wing and tail feathers and the plane is a good flying plane that can really take a lot of abuse.