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RC Airplanes are a wonderful and relaxing (depending on your craft, lol) hobby.
And it's also quite affordable with ready-to-go starter kits for just over $100.

But if you want to join an RC club to get access to an actual flying field, you have to shell out $50-$85 per year for the AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) membership in the US, and an additional $100 per year for most flying fields.

I mean, if you're serious about your hobby (any hobby), that might indeed be chump-change to you, but it's really not a trivial amount of money at all.

The year was 2005. I had an RC obsession and a lot of money to burn. This is a Traxxas e-Maxx, probably one of the first fitted with $600 worth of LiPo batteries and a 24vdc power system. I used a Battlebots ESC. This thing was stupid for its day. I still have it. #rc #remotecontrol