Thanks for the link dunk, flying drones looks like an interesting place to start alright. Probably most of the features used in navigating an airplane would convert over to a helicopter pretty simply.
The use of the ps2 controller is a nice touch, very little chance of you running out of buttons on that controller. Your plane is very cool, the control you have is amazing, are you going to hook it up to a computer to control it or will all the commanding parts be inside the plane itself?