To me traditional R/C modeling is building smaller scratch built or kit built airplanes with glo fuel engines. Gluing them together with Ambroid glue, biting the cured glue from my fingertips as things sat overnight drying, and covering with either Silron or silkspan covering while smelling Aero gloss dope... Those were the days and I haven't built that way in well over 3 decades, anyway that is what it means to me and nothing more.
Bob