RE: longer range planes
I agree it would be nice to do something like that, but as Montague said it wouldn't be as easy as you think to control the plane. Trying to control a model airplane from a camera's view is not like a video game =/. I'd imagine such technology would be very exspensive. Transmitters with that kinda range is commercial, not consumer level. It'd probably be almost impossible to get a hold to. Legally that is.