Try one of these first
Hey, bedlamite - you know about RC helis and so forth? How does something like the one you linked compare to flying a larger-scale, "real" RC heli? My stepson got one of those little ready-to-fly jobs for Christmas last year, and honestly, it's so frustrating that no one will play with it. It absolutely WILL NOT hover, and there's about a minute-of-degree-of-angle difference on the sticks between a creeping-slow rise/forward/reverse flight, as appropriate, and bat-out-of-hell-put-a-hole-in-the-wall flight. Now, his didn't cost $130, either - probably closer to $30, I'd guess, which probably makes a huge difference - but if the $130 job would actually be fun to fly, it might be worth getting one.
In a more-general discussion of neato RC aircraft, I've seen some phenomenal vids online (some of which you may actually have linked, for all I know - I'm at work now, and they frown on Youtube). In particular, I've seen vids of a B-52 and an F-16 that, once they were airborne, you almost could not tell that they were RC. Wingspan on the B-52 was huge, too, something like 15 feet. I remember being sorely tempted by an RC Airwolf a number of years back, as well. Same model they used for Season 3 of the show, IIRC (when they couldn't afford to rent the actual helicopter anymore and still needed aerial work they didn't already have on film). Way out of my budget, though, for sure. I've got too much else to spend money on, to get into that.
