<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: larger">And that's why I am coming back to the hobby. I would like to build someday, perhaps from scratch. I don't have the room right now in my rental but we are considering moving within the year for more room and my other hobby of ham radio. Just too many other things going on and we need more room.
All I did before, in the early 70's was build combat style aircraft. A group I fell into bought cheaper models and modified them into high performance planes with larger engines than they should have had.
We made many mistakes but it was fun learning at the time. I only built two of them myself. The first one I destroyed really bad the first time out. I got off the ground just fine, took it easy and then started to play around and lost orientation and panicked and the rest was history.
The second lasted about 12 or so flights until I was hit by another aircraft as he attempted to cutmy streamer. Both planes were destroyed and this time my receiver was broken and not repairable. And it was rather hard to damage too. It was a "Kraft" RC system and it had the one peice "brick" which was kind of hard to damage. But with what we were doing, it was to be expected.
So I gave up and quit. I thought I was spending too much money on it at the time. Newly married and much better uses for money.
So this time I learn to take it easy and try to fly easy.
Maybe someday I will get into electric flight or even mod what I have now for it. I saw a guy fly an Ascent electric glider or sail plane once too and it's looked interesting having the combo electric powered flight and sail abilities too.</span></span>