Originally Posted by
ls01
The costs have come down considerably with the electric / foam models. Almost no building time. Much cheaper radio equipment too. I used to spend 3-500 on a smaller airplane. Each. I had 5 or 6. Then I started getting into "pattern". Trippled my airframe cost per plane. Due to size and performance requirements.
I miss flying R/C, but there's no way I could get back in to flying powered models at the moment because I don't have the space for charging infrastructure and storage.
Now what I really want is a nice F3K discus launch glider. But talk about an expensive airframe
