I bought my wife an Aero Ace after she saw one of the guys at my flying club farting around with it. She thought it was SOOOO cute! We do some indoor flying when the mercury plummets and the snow piles up, and I sometimes take it to play around with.

The biggest "mod" I've had to do to the Aero Ace to get it to fly well is to tape a dime onto the nose of the plane to level it out a bit. It tends to climb steeply and "porpoise" a bit without the nose weight.

The Air Hogs stuff that I've played with is inexpensive, flies well for "toy-class" R/C, and is nearly indestructable. In addition to the Aero Ace, I bought one of their Helix micro helicopters. The Helix flies really well, but I've got to send mine back for a brand new one due to a recall. I also bought my 5-year old nephew an Air Hogs Room Raider for Christmas. It's a single channel plane with a joystick style controller. You simply hold in the throttle trigger and the plane flies around in an 8-foot circle until you let go. It's perfect for younger kids who can't quite master proportional controls.