Thanks all for helping me reach 2.5K AKA Halfway Gold. To celebrate, here is a spin-off/subassembly/Proof of Concept from my current big Ninja Sentai space rocket: the Half-Golden Flying Ninja Sentai Ranger!

This is basically a self-launching sailplane that looks like a leaping Anime super-team hero. Commands are pretty basic: Trim slider and left joystick. Use the joystick to 'fly'.... ok, to control the Anime ranger. It's just a plane without engines and yaw. Yea, I know, he/she uses his/her legs for steering but that's only fancy visuals. Up/Down is Pitch, Left/Right is Roll. That's all you really need to know

The Trim slider on the right controls the Ninja Ranger Power Leap, ok the takeoff. And sticks the landing as well.... Sort-off. Push Trim slider all the way up to trigger the detacher on the launch platform (a.k.a. make the Sentai Ninja Ranger jump 1000 ft high in best Anime tradition.) Fly around at leasure and at some 100 ft above the ground, pull the Trim slider all the way down to deploy the parachute for a smooth landing right in the middle of the action.

What the Flying Sentai Ninja Ranger does not yet do:
1) Get up by him/herself after landing face-down. I would like to experiment with some combination of gyroscope and moving arms/legs, but that would just take valuable time and resources from building the Sentai's space rocket, which is still my main objective
2) Launch him/herself from a moving plane or spaceship. That's my main objective for now, but in order to keep the thing mobile-friendly I first got to cut the number of parts in half. So the final Sentai Rangers from the Sentai Ninja Space Rocket may end up completely different from this one
3) Carry a gun or sword or anything to fight the big extraterrestrial battle robots. If you want, you can add one yourself.

But that's it for now. I'm off to build my next project and hopefully get in range of the big Gold 5K marker. In the meantime please take this build, experiment with it, improve upon it, build your own version and please, please post what you come up with.