Hey thanks for the welcomes! Yeah, even after just 2 years the changes are pretty incredible. I imagine all the changes in 8 yrs or more would be unreal. The advances in 3d foam planes look really sweet. I'm pretty sure I'm going to try out an electric 3d ship after I've looked into it a bit. The yak55 looks nice, but this electric stuff is Greek to me. Li-po, all the different motors, just all of it. Sure would be nice, though. I teach Elementary Science, so after work (3:00) I could just walk out to the baseball/soccer field and fly. It looks like it has an advantage to glow- seems like you would have a hard time wrecking bad enough to hurt the motor/esc/rx/servos... and the planes are $40-50! Now that I might try hovering right in front of me.
Great to be back. I'm going again this afternoon!