ORIGINAL: Missileman
Your mistake is making the assumption that we crash all of our airplanes. That is simply not true.
Yes we do crash from time to time but most of our airplanes will never suffer a crash. Many get traded away or retired somewhere in the back of the garage.
I have heard it said that all RC airplanes have an expiration date. I don't buy into that. If real airplanes were given the same mentality then man wouldn't bother to fly at all.
right on there missileman I don't build planes to crash, as a matter of fact I havent crashed a plane since I was flying my trainer,I better knock on some wood for that statement

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there is alot of members of our club that fly the same plane for years and grease every landing like they were in the cockpit.
the plane I prefer is the one I am flying at the time.