I am new to this site and new to flying rc's. About two weeks ago I bought the Hobbyzone Aerobird, it is the electric plane with the 3ch remote. I bought it on a Friday night, watch the tape and read the manual. Saturday I put the plane all together and charged the battery, I was ready to go. I went to this 5 acre field by my house and was ready to fly my new plane. I hand launched and flew around for about two minutes and did a great landing. I was so happy, I called my wife and told her I didn't break it on my first flight. After I hung up the phone I decided to fly again and see if I could do it again. It was a little windy but I thought I could do it anyway. I was flying and got a little higher than I thought and was flying down wind, I tried turning the plane but it isn't set up to turn really hard. I made it past one tree and into the top of the next, about 60 feet up. As I was walking across the field thinking my wife was going to kill me and wondering how in the world I could get it down, it fell. Not only did it fall it hit every branch on the way. I just knew that it was demolished, but it only put two small dents in the front on the wing. I was very happy to see that it was still flyable. I have now flown and landed it around 17 times with about 9 hard hits. This plane is great and can take a banging. Yesterday I flew it with no problems and am looking forward to flying today. This a great plane to learn on, but when I move up to a more fragile plane I will definitely get a trainer to go with me.