RE: gas or electric
Harmsway - same like me, after a 20 year hiatus I came back and was shocked! Servos are smaller and planes even come from Vietnam called ARF and they cost so little! What do you want to fly? Starting there would be great.
No one can say my WM Super Chipmunk conversion is not a stable plane! I loved it when we had the maiden, was at a Fun Fly I organised, everyone watched silently as she took off. Then the heckling started "Its a DEAD STICK!", "WHERE IS THE NOISE", "ITS TOO SILENT!" ... but they all loved it as no one really bothers to fly 90 sized EP planes here. The heckling was fun as I showed them the finger as I flew!