I have a couple foamies I no longer fly, mainly because I have to walk a distance to retrieve them once the battery gets low. It is rare to have a light wind day, last weekend was PERFECT for that kind of plane, so I brought out my Inversa 280, never got it in the air, moment I went full throttle the motor blew off the nose. There were pieces of foam everywhere. Size is also a factor, I lose sight of the small ones rather quickly, my smallest regular flier is an LT-40, so any plane I get will have to be at least as big, and that size seems to be the best for me, or bigger. The 4*120 wing is shortened by a bay on each end, so the wing is just a bit larger than the LT-40. I tend to fly high, giving myself plenty of room to recover, which is why I am looking for something in the 91 range.

When I flew my Chipmunk and P-51, they were easy to lose sight of,(orientation) and they are 65" wings.

What I was looking at last night, the TH lineup, there are the GP, Aeroworks and Pheonix planes, would any of those be a decent choice to step up with? I am a pretty good flier, when I was at the flyin, I probably had the best take offs and landings, mainly due to the very short and narrow field I fly on. I know what I did wrong to wreck my P-51, just something I have to remember NOT to do when its flying again, a quirk of the plane. When I did fly the inversa, I did pretty good with it, but nearly lost it a couple times as it got too far away and lost orientation. One of the other things I tend to do is keep far enough away to avoid flying into or over the flight line. Again has to do with where I fly, trees directly behind my left, barn and real airplane fuses on my right. Any of which can total a plane in an instant if I get too close, you know how trees tend to reach out and rip a plane out of the air!