Thanks for the tips everyone. I think I'll stick with the setup I originally planned and maybe I'll ge the kit and fart around with it this winter.

Does anyone have a list of the common tools I will need to build it? That would be handy so I'd know what to buy.

Hypter, I may take you up on that offer. My next post here was going to be to seek out other modelers local to me. I guess that is probably the closest. Is there anywhere to fly right here in Morgantown? What about where they have the Balloon Festival? I would think that if there is enough room to launch 50 hot air balloons, then there should be enough room to fly a model plane!