Im not sure that I would say its just the airplanes that help them, although giving them something positive to do with their time builds charactor and maturity.

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet, is that kids cant afford 500 dollar airplanes alone...and cant drive themselves to the feild. It takes active parenting as well, which I think would be the real cause of any link to positive behavior you would find in these kids.

I'm a harsh critic on parenting. I don't like the direction that our country is shifting into where everything is becomming kid-safe and kid-freindly, and is being forced in that direction by a gov't that is laying down to lazy parents. My mom wouldnt let me bring even a Metallica CD into the house before i was about 15...I wasnt allowed to play really violent games (doom maybe sometimes, but never too much)...my parents never had to guess where I was, they knew...Sure, i went through my phase of lying, skipping school, doing bad in school, hanging out with the dumbest group of guys I could find...but I couldnt get away with it because my parents would be right there on me the second i tried to screw up.

Now, tv and radio and even the internet have to be censored because a large number of parents can't even be bothered to monitor what their kids are doing, so they just expect everyone else to bear the burden of content-control....which is wrong on so many levels.

But it seems to be, that the parents of the kids at the feilds do a good job, as not only are the kids good pilots, have high attention spans, and are very mature, they are all very well adjusted to being in a group of -mainly- adults and yet still retain their (in a good way) childishness that makes sure they still enjoy being a kid.