RE: Wind is fun
Several years (in fact 12 years back) when I first got interested in the hobby as a school kid, RC flying was still very expensive in my country. My instructor, who used to teach aeromodelling in a Government-run college to the army cadets, had a small .25 size (I think) screw-compression engine which he had mounted on a glider. We have 15-20mph winds on average on our field and the glider used to do about the same speed. The kids used to call it our own "VTOL" airplane because it used to never go anywhere, just hang around above our heads. Was great fun at the time
Ameyam