TF,

I intend keep all of my flyable planes until they are um....no-longer flyable. That 'old' stick suffers from a serious case of hangar rash, the carb came loose today and I landed it hard a few times before I realized it was loose, (really bad throttle control and lotsa dead-sticks with a loose carb, BTW). I rarely clean it very well, the nose gear is so loose it's funny, The elevator came off in inverted flight and I pushed 4 pins in each hinge to avoid future failures. I epoxied the h#ll out of the tail section after it fell off the table during one of my rare cleaning sessions. What the heck is after-run oil? Cycle batteries? I do that in-flight. The wing looks like a tape-sampler from 3M. Poor thing looks like cr%p, but I like flying it just the same. It's the perfect 'beater' plane. H-9 makes a pretty durable ARF. I have truly abused that poor plane and it keeps on flying for me.

I agree. It's always nice to have a good, dependable plane to fly. This plane should be encased in Lucite and hung in a museum for all I have put it through as a beginner, but I will just keep on flying the poor, abused thing.

Please don't turn me in to the plane-abuse authorities as I am a beginner who knows no better.