Building?? Somebody say Building??
I love to build, now I do it all the time! I also experiment alot more. Right now, Working on a foam KI-61 Can't complaint really, but if I nose it in, I'll be bummed - then in a few days, I'll have another one or a new design again.
It took me a year or so to make my P-51 the way I wanted it 1/7 scale-Gold Edition, it took me a day to build a CoroStang and a Mig 7 - I can't complain one bit. But In all honesty, I loved the crash pic .....even better when the plane is flying pretty the following day or so.
To get back to the topic, NO a balsa plane would NOT recover form that crash without A LOT of painstaking hours and a lot of dust and ca! Oh well..back to my KI-61 wings, enjoy guys.