Nice BatVink!
Well, you can start RC planing for cheap these days. You can get a RTF (ready to fly) kit from ebay for around £70-£80. That'll include all the electrics you need. Once you smash that one beyond all repair, you can then by another airframe of whatever type you fancy for around £30-£60 and just transfer all the electronics across. Later you can go nitro and work your way up to the most expensive stuff. If all that's too steap, you can cut your teeth on a 2 channel cheapy plane for £20, that'll climb when you apply throttle and drive when you dont, and steer using directional engine force (Twin engine). They're fun to start out with.
My first plane had about 10 flights, a combined flight time of about 1 and half minutes, and about 10 re-gluing sessions. By the time I binned it, it probably had more Super Steel glue in it then fussilage. I went for an advanced pilot 4 channel warbird (spitfire) to start with though. Big mistake.
But I moved all the electrics I got with it to my new plane, so I've not lost much money and gained a lot of experience.
It's a great hobby, because it's not expensive (especially compared with my RC monster truck hobby), it's very challenging and there's a huge scope to slowly move up through model quality and difficulty. With my RC truck I bought at the top of the range and that was that. With this you can't do that, so I can look forward to buying better and better models and being able to do more tricks and aerobatics, and moving from electric, to nitro, to jet powered. Also progress through 3,4 up to 8 channels.
Eventually you can get into 3D flying, which is where the power of the engine is greater than force of gavity on the plane, so you can hover it, do flips and stunts and even fly indoors. Crazy stuff.
