Ya know, when you sit down and think about it, planes aren't really much more expensive to get into than any other R/C hobby.

Looking at Tower's website, I see that the NextStar comes in at $399.99 RTF and the RTR Savage 25 comes in at the same price. Add in the necessary extras and the plane is only about $50-100 more.

I just used the Savage as an example, thanks to the Monster Truck craze sweeping the car hobby. And yes, you can start cheaper, but you get what you pay for for the most part. With planes, you go from the high wing trainer, to the mid or low wing and re-use the engine, servos and radio in the new plane. With cars you take out the .25 the truck came with and throw in a .28 or spring for the .46 conversion.

It really is all relative. I don't care to think about the amount of money I've had tied up in my cars over the years, starting with my RTR T3 that was "only" $299.00