RE: new to rc planes!
UH...
Tips: Join a club, get an instructor and buy NOTHING without his/her advice. You will find your car experience is largely useless when it comes to glow planes, but the familiarity with steering toward yourself will help, along with engine basics.
Planes are MUCH more fun and much more challenging than rc cars. Within a year, you will sell all of your car stuff and buy a 50cc edge or extra and be looking into trailers for your 40% ambitions.
Welcome to the end of 'free-time' and 'disposable-income' as you know them.