Hi, MisterChill!
I used to work closely with a guy who loved radio control airplanes. He'd fly every weekend! He loved to build them, but, like you, he spent 99% of the time repairing!
A bunch of us at work got into radio control cars. I know the gas cars were much faster, but we liked the electric ones better. I built a couple of them, and my husband raced them with his brother. I was irked when he ran my pride and joy into a storm drain and sheared the roof off!
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