If you had to choose between an electric foamie or a scale/profile glow/gasser for the rest of time, which would it be?

definatly the gas.
definatly a ys.

gas is good. however i just love the simplicity of elctric, so it gets my vote

the thing that shoos me away from electric is how much it begins to cost when you get into larger planes. it costs a lot more than gas and gas has that cook ticking idle sound. a brushless motor (you cant go brushed with a larger 3d plane) will cost upwards of $300, and another $100 for a controller and another $100 per pack and while that eventually pays for itself in savings over gas, it still does not have that cool ticking sound.

listen to this then, for a 2 meter 3D aerobat

in the UK a YS 160 dingo with hyde ARI mount and propper hatori header and pipe about 600 GBP

in the UK an electric setup:
Macker C50 Xl with 6.6:1 (there abouts) Gearbox and a 90A ESC, 2x 5s2p lipos (wired for 10s2p (5000mah all up, 14c discharge)), prop, ESC, mount, top of the range shultze charger and a programmer for ESC about 900GBP

YS 30% fuel about 30 GBP a gallon, youd use this in about 2 weeks, so, it would take 10 weeks to pay off the electric setup. even tho the Lipos go off at about 200 cycles that way over a years of flying, then it would be 400GBP to replace them, then it would be payed off in about 15 weeks of flying

thats y i like leccy so much. with the new brushless and lipos i dont think IC will last too much longer, giveit 5-10 or so years an it will be very much a minority

then if you had too chose between a gasser foamie or a scale/profile electric for the rest of time?!

I have to agree with Spaceclam a well tuned YS runs close to an electric setup! amazing throttle charasteristics, and never a deadstick!

...Explain this in a bit more detail will you EE....while you'r putting your tin hat on