First of all I want to say this website rocks!

I have recently delved into the realm of R/C combat (thrilling and very addictive) and can't get enough. I am surprised that it is not more popular than it is so I came up with a few reasons why.
1) Build time is too long to risk destroying the planes.
2) Cost is a factor, who wants to throw planes away?
3) The spads, gutter tube, and other coroplast planes may be tough but they are damn ugly. I want my combat planes to look like combat planes!

So here is my idea: Some people have recently started making combat planes out of wiffleball bats. Now these things are tough as nails! Instead of making a plane that looks like a modified bat, take the same plastic and make molds of real planes.

These could come in three sections: Fuselage, tail assembly and wing assembly. Built time would be really short, and easy. Heck, they could be set up so the control surface hinges just snap into place and are then glued. Same with the Horizontal and vertical stabilizers

The control horns could be molded right in with the ailerons, and elevator. Even rivets, panel lines and other details could be part of this, now that would be awesome!

Once assembled the whole thing would just need a coat of paint.
I don't think weight would be a factor since we currently use coroplast and bats to fly now. Best of all these should be really cheap. Look how inexpensive bats are at Wal-Mart and such (3-10 bucks). I would spend more than that for something like this!

I put this post in the ARF forum because these would be ARFS, and I think this group is a bit more active than the combat section. Let me know what you think of this idea...........