Thanks a ton everyone for the advice and encouragement!

Saramos, funny you mention it because I did build a couple of rubber band flyers as a kid. I seem to remember that building up the wings and fuse was time consuming, but not rocket science. The covering on the other hand was tissue paper if I remember correctly...that part WAS rocket science heh.

I've built and raced the heck out of 1/10th nitro R/C cars for about 4 years so I'm not green to R/C at all, but building an R/C plane I'm sure is a whole lot more involved & time consuming. I'm in no hurry though as I do have my current plane to fly.

Thanks again all for the advice and for steering me in the right direction.