I remember getting into the flying hobby by the T. O. Y. method. as a young boy I remember collecting box tops to buy a Cessna plane that was essentianly a plane on a long stick that you held out away from you and that plane did circles around then end point of the stick with batteries to run the prop. This unfortuneatly led to the vertibird incidents in which I started flying toy helicopters around in a tethered circle picking up astronauts in rafts. then I got on to the hard stuff like the flying aces attack night fighters. A diecast metal plane that plugged into a power cord that had a prop spinning on it that made the move so fast that the centrifugal force made it seem to fly. (what were my parents thinking) I then graduated up to a hairy canary. this was one of my first forays into somewhat true flight. True it flew around in a tethered circle in the house but I had control of both throttle and elevator. Now It began to get really hot and heavy I had my first control line trainer. There are reasons why you should not try to fly one on extremely windy days. On the upwind side the wind blew it in toward me and it went way up then fractured into little pieces when it piled into the ground. my next one I was getting really addicted and cocky when I tried to do a loop and fly upside down. that ended badly because gravity fed cox 049 engines don't like upside down. then guillow planes like corsairs where I honed my bad model making and covering abilities. planes looked like they had battle damage before the first flight. then my first rc plane a sig cadet. I never got to fly that on my own, the first place I went to the informal club shut down and I lost my teacher and the second place I went to was not to friendly in teaching my to fly. never had enough time to get me up more then once or maybe twice a day. got the plane in trouble and pulled up hard enough to rip the wing mount through the aircraft. Pile drove the plane in hard enough to destroy the engine. 18 years later I was trying again in a new club with a tower hobby supersport. First flight was with bad elastics and they did not last the whole flight another pile driven aircraft. the next plane was a dura plane unbreakable in which I mastered its flight characteristics. Amazing thing was that after that plane no other plane was as hard to fly as that guided missile of a dura plane was and now I am forever hooked