Some Avistars come as RTF (Ready to Fly) and ARF (Almost Ready to Fly) The RTF version has most of the building done for you and has the steel rod to join the main wing together, along with plastic straps to help hold them together, along with a strip of clear tape to cover the upper joint. I have heard that just putting the wing together like that is okay for doing training, but if you start getting into anything advanced (loops, rolls, stall turns) and you are doing them with more than 1/2 throttle, you run the risk of the wing folding in half. Read some of the threads on here about the Avistar, you'll be glad you did.

The ARF requires you to do a little more building, which requires Epoxy and CA glues. This one will give you a little more experience in building and seeing how your plane goes together, so that way when and if you crash, you'll have a better understanding of how to do the repairs yourself. That's what happened to me, my first crash shredded the right half of the fuselage, but the wing cracked on the outer edge of the joint (inside the wing) because the epoxy had done that good a job keeping the original joint together. After that, I glassed the joint so now all I worry about is leading edge damage, which I have had and is pretty simple to fix.

For gluing the wing together.........if you have an RTF, then it's your decision...the nice thing about that is you are able to put the wing into a car trunk w/o too much damage because you can dissasemble it easier at the field, but an ARF, you have to glue the wing together or it just won't work.

good luck!