This is probably not the place for this thread but seeing as I had my original rant about electric planes here I thought I would do a follow up.

A while ago I tried electric aircraft and was very disappointed. I purchased two, a mini ultra stik and a mini katana and all the expensive bits and pieces to make them fly. And fly they did but... the slightest of winds (well relative to what I fly my glow planes in anyway) knocked them all over the sky and they seemed to be made of nothing but covering and air. Every less-than-perfect landing would take the landing gear off and heaven help you if your young daughter accidentally put her schoolbag in the wrong place in the back of the car and crushed your wing.
I am just used to bigger, more solid, self built .46 size glow planes that fly well on all but very windy days, can take the abuse of being transported, are easy to maintain and cheap to fly. They just have a sense of permanence about them, my 4 Star now has over 300 flights and after a recovering job looks better than the day I finished building her.
But the electric thing would not go away, it sat in the back of my mind nagging that there must be something special about it. So much so that I decided the problem was not the power system but the smaller, relatively affordable electric aircraft I was flying.
And so I decided to bite the bullet and spent the money on electrifying the aircraft I do like to fly. My first project will be the Sig Mid Star I am currently building, a plane rated for a .40 size glow engine.
I bought a motor (E-Flite Power 46) and 60 amp ESC which where expensive but still less than a good 4 stroke so that was OK but then I ordered batteries and [:@] that hurt!!!
But its done and in a couple of weeks my new baby will be ready to fly, quiet and clean.
I hope it is going to meet my expectations or I will be furious with myself for not getting that OS .56 four stroke for it instead.

Ray