| Wood, paper, plastic... all of this can be used to build | | | | from kits. Such kits can contain a lot of parts and may |
| model airplanes. Paper airplanes are preferred mostly | | | | need to be painted or can come painted, but not |
| from kids because they are easy and in practice free | | | | assembled. Building a scale model from a kit is a lot |
| to make. Older kids and adults often prefer to create | | | | more challenging than building a free flight plane. |
| or collect wooden model aircraft because wood | | | | Some of these kits are a bit more expensive ($20 - |
| allows you to start from scratch and build very precise | | | | $100) because of the large number of details in them. |
| models. But wooden airplanes are usually static. | | | | The expenses can add up quite quickly, because there |
| People from all ages like plastic model airplanes | | | | is a large variety of civilian and military airplanes and |
| because they can be both static scale or flying | | | | helicopters available as plastic kits. It's very easy to get |
| models, they are affordable, and there are thousands | | | | addicted into buying more and more kits. |
| of kits for builders. | | | | Finally, a large category of plastic model airplanes have |
| The free flight plastic airplanes are simple and cheap, | | | | a battery or gas powered engine and can fly under |
| and best of all, they can fly. This kind of aircraft has no | | | | your remote control. The RC airplanes usually don't |
| engine - it's usually thrown by hand and flies using the | | | | copy exactly real aircraft - at least not in such details |
| initial power given by your hand. Plastic is very | | | | like the the scale models. The RC models are very |
| appropriate material for them because it's light and | | | | popular within the kids and teenagers because flying |
| robust and the models usually can survive many flights. | | | | them is very exciting. |
| If you are buying a ready free flight plastic airplane, | | | | When you become a really advanced hobbyist, you |
| prepare to spend from $2-$3 to $20-$30. If you want | | | | may even build an RC aircraft yourself from scratch. |
| to build one yourself, it's not much of a challenge - | | | | Of course, you are not expected to build the engine |
| there are kits which can be assembled for minutes. | | | | and remote control yourself - just assembling all from |
| It's very popular to build static scale plastic airplanes | | | | a kit is challenging enough. |