I've said this before, but I crashed my share of plastic RTF half-A C/L's until I built and flew a profile Sterling Beginner's Fokker Eindecker III. Flown over grass, I crashed it many times until I learned to fly it, but only had to straighten the music wire landing gear, maybe flush grass and dirt from the engine with a shot of fuel.

After the 12th crash, split the fuselage. Glued it together and flew it another 2 or so dozen flights. Finally gave it to a friend when departing my "A" school for duty assignment. Had flown it so many times, that the aluminum elevator control horn's once nicely fitting round hole was now worn oblong with some slop.

Upgraded to a 38 inch wingspan Sterling F-51 profile powered by a Testors McCoy .19 Red Head. It was somewhat underpowered with the McCoy, but more stable in flight with wind than a half-A.

Need to repair my 42 inch wingspan Ringmaster with Testors McCoy .35 Red Head, split loose the fuselage-wing joint, plus finish my 30 inch Pilot Cessna 177 Cardinal full fuselage C/L with Enya .09-III TV engine (mounted inverted with carb linked wide open. What the heck, one can use R/C engines in C/L this way, may roll the eyes of the purists, but hey, I'm still flying.)