The mini isn't going to be big enough to go nitro. Get 3 batteries for it and a 50 watt charger, and you'll be in business. It's amazing how handy these smaller park planes are. I have planes that cost 5 times what the little stick did and fly way better. Yet I have more flights on this one because it's just so easy to toss it in the car and go to the park with it. Plus it has saved a couple of flying field days when I had a problem with the plane I had intended to fly and the little stick got brought along just in case.