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I think you are right Ed. We are falling over ourselves to get the
plane du jour and are willing to accept it as they come just to have
the hot item I guess. I have no problem with a quality kit for $1200,
but accepting a messed up one that you have to fix or redo half of what
the factory did is just not my idea of a good deal. We should demand
better in my opinion.<br>
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Chris<br>
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<pre wrap="">Plane of the month syndrome, availability of planes and our own time to
build has brought us to where we are. We had quite a few domestic, quality
conscious kit manufacturers at one time, now I think we are down just 2 or
3. Quality issues with offshore products isn't limited to the few planes we
buy. It seems that the lowest cost has become the sole reason to purchase
anything. The flight from quality..........
Ed M.
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From: "Anthony Romano" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:anthonyr105@hotmail.com"><anthonyr105@hotmail.com></a>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org"><nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org></a>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] New Planes
I know I should have made some noise about the last two kits I built. A
"name" airplane that I waited a long time for and was continually
dissapointed by.
Then it got harder. I built a Black Magic next and all the flaws were my own
fault!
Anthony
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cjm767driver@hotmail.comTo:">cjm767driver@hotmail.comTo:</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.orgDate:">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.orgDate:</a> Sun,
13 Jan 2008 20:07:57 -0600Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] New Planes
Since it has been so quiet, I want to stir the pot and ask everyone why it
is that we as a group accept lots of poor quality kits and just shrug it
off? I spoke with 2 people this weekend who are building different planes
and both are unhappy with the quality of the kits. Pieces are warped and
twisted and tubes misaligned and we just say..."oh well, I'll fix it". One
guy said something to the effect that well, it was ONLY $1,000.00!!!! We are
way too lenient on accepting cruddy quality and just fixing it. I know there
are not a lot of vendors out there, but we are happy to pay just $1,000 and
get a twisted plane in return?? I was told one popular plane that many guys
now have has 5 DEGREES of down thrust mistakenly molded into the fuse and
everyone just says, oh well, I'll fix it. Don't know about you, but $1,000
is a lot of dough to me, and to happily pay for a cruddy product in return
is just wrong. I still remember that famous email from one mfg that
basically said that the person complaining about his wing was twisted should
be HAPPY that it was twisted because famous pilot XX flew the plane too and
he won the NATS with it. The problem is that we don't as a group send the
junk back and demand that we get our money's worth. Nospan expects a perfect
kit without any problems at all, but aren't we too lenient? Maybe we need to
just buy kits like Mike's Black Magic and then we can only blame ourselves
if it comes out crooked.Sorry, but I really feel that we are being taken
advantage of due to the limited supply of planes available and we are told
to take it or leave it.Ok, I feel better now.Chris
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