i've been flying the Stryker F-27 for around 2 years now, and still love it, it was actually the very first plane i'd really ever flown. good thing it can take some serious punishment. flying inverted a couple feet off the ground at full throttle will certainly stand your hair on end (especially if you make a mistake!), as will doing a nose dive at full throttle, and seeing how close you can get to the ground before you pull out.

its true, the AA is a cheap plane at only 30 bucks. but, when you consider what you get for that 30 dollars, it is a bummer if you lose it (a 130mah cell, charger, two 6mm motors and a two channel, semi proportional RX will certainly cost more than 30 bucks if you bought it all seperately). plus, some folks on here are pretty young, young enough to hardly be able to afford the 30 dollars for their AA, so when they lose it, its even more of a bummer. i've yet to lose an AA, after owning 4 of them over the past 6 or 7 months. a lot of people seem to fly theirs way up high, where as i tend to be at head level or lower, and usually at a low throttle setting. this is probably why i havent lost any yet, lord knows i've come close though

nick