If you are a little handy with your hands there's a very good started airplane you can build from foam. Go to foamfly.com and look up the "frog". I build one just to see how is does and it flew great. All I had to do was give it some throttle and let go and away it went. Pull back on the throttle about 1/2 and it just about floated. If you do smash it up(which it is durable) take your equipment out and cut another out of foam. You use about $2.00 of foam per airplane. Try this web site out, Dan will help if needed.
George