Hey Bob thinks for coming back, I derive great satisfaction in helping out returnees. If you were flying reeds or perhaps various single channel before proportional I would greatly recommend if you still wanted to fly biplanes that you look for a one of the Cunningham Lazy Aces. Either one already built up or build it yourself as plans are not hard to come by. This airplane is ideal and it is quite large for a biplane. If you had done no flying at all in those long years then by all means connect up with a mentor to stand by on a buddy cord. Heck these days we even have cordless buddy systems and I use these exclusively, the fellows love it. No one can even tell if you are on the cord or not

Larryak excellent point on transport. That is the very biggest negative always for biplanes. They are a hugh pain in the butt, in most cases for field assembly. It is probably the biggest deterent. I have resisted far to many years and always did it the hard way but it gets so old. I still have one rather large biplane and it is the GP arf Stearman that I use for an aerotow tug, flying it pretty often. Heck I finally broke down and bought me a new trailer several weeks now and it is proving such a joy to be able to transport some of the larger bulkier stuff assembled or partially assembled, not just the biplane but the seaplanes also which are also tricky assemblys.

John