ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
I build yesteryear's type of airplane, mainly because thay exhibit something that you can't get from a foamy, park flyer or any other ARF. It's called character. And by the way, only Little Orphan Annie's dog, Sandy said ARF. If this makes me part of a dying breed, then, Sonny, you are going to miss out on a lot. There is a tremendous difference in flying something that you have created, and something that you partially assembled. So don't say that you are going out to fly your plane. Just say I'm going out to fly Nguyen Schwartz' plane that he built, and I bought. Those who can, Do. Those who cannot, rationalize.
Bill, AMA 4720
Bill, some of us youngsters (I'm only 63) who fly electrics also build stick planes as you can see from my 17" ittle rubber to e-flite conversion. You can only imagine what I used to say about 3D and giant scale before I learned how to do 'em. By the way my 25% edge is going electric too. It's not called character it's called moving on with the times...