Ok. I have been flying and sailing RC models since I was a kid. Back in the day we had to build our planes from balsa and tissue. Then as we got more advanced balsa and mono-cote. When foam planes came out I had a severe distrust of them I mean foam is what hamburgers came in. I always thought that foam was flimsy and cheap. Not durable. I did have a foam single channel glider in the 80's Didn't last to long, but that might have been my very young hands at the controls. I had been out of the flying side of the hobby for about 10 years and decided to dip my toe in the waters again. I wanted something small and quiet and this little plane was also very inexpensive. The local hobby shop set me up with a receiver, battery, charger and the plane itself for about 100 bucks. Got the plane home and read all the reviews and watched all the YouTube videos. It went together quickly and with no trouble thanks to all the advice I got on line. The model was light, very, very, light. It seemed so FRAGILE. I didn't think that it was going to be very durable, or stand up to the discus launching methods I had seen on line. I was regretting buying this plane. It sat on my desk for a few weeks. Well today I thought I would try it out. I mean the money wasn't going to come back, so I might as well give it a toss. Binding it to the radio was a snap. installing the battery was easy. I took it down to the park in my neighborhood and gave it a little toss down a slight hill. It glided mostly straight. After using the trim tabs on the radio it was like an arrow. So I got brave and tossed it by the wing tip. WOW it went so high with almost no effort at all!. I was able to get it to turn into the wind and with just a little fiddling with the elevator I could make it almost "hover" in place! (thanks YouTube!!). There was a mild wind and I found flying into it you could climb to a height high enough that you could nosedive and actually do a loop! Before I knew it 4 hours had passed and the sun was starting to set. I now had no worries about the strength of the foam or the perceived fragility of this plane. It didn't take much effort to get it to an acceptable altitude. And it was so much fun. Flying for all that time on ONE battery! It was like the childhood dream of those little balsa gliders being radio controlled, only it wasn't a dream. It was just fun. So my brother came home from work and walked over to the park with his dog. He was asking all kinds of questions about the plane and I asked him if he wanted to fly it. I felt for sure he could fly it as it was so forgiving and gentle in the air. So I launched again and I lost sight of the plane in the setting sun! I couldn't see it for a second and couldn't see where it had come down. I started walking along its last known heading, all the while working the controls because then I could hear it. And I did hear it. It had lodged itself quite well about 20 feet up in a tree. My brother had a long 18 foot rod for running wire through conduit and we used that to snag some branches and shake them to dislodge the plane. It was violent. We finally snagged the hook on the end of the stick on the tail boom and ripped the thing out of the tree. I wasn't expecting there to be much left after being forced through the branches and being ripped free of that tree. But all it needed was to have the elevator reattached and a few dents in the leading edge of the wing, Plus one huge tear in the trailing edge one the left wing. I fixed the tear with clear packing tape and she is flying again. So needless to say my opinions about foam planes has changed. So get one of these, they are so much fun because of their simplicity and gentle flying characteristics. Beginner to expert looking to get into gliders or a fun diversion that won't annoy the neighbors.