RE: newbie, sort of.
True, not a kid. But, kids don't shop at Harbor Feight (they bought the discontinued stock of these planes and sell them cheap). The real criminal part is that these things aren't designed correctly. If they had the motors outboard, all had a Vtail and had GOOD instructions, anyone good at video games could fly them. It's sad that I had to use higher learning to get this thing to fly.
But on the other hand, there are a lot of products that need to be modded to work correctly. They're all criminal in one way or another.