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I must respond, simply because I ran across an ARF that has blown me away with its quality. Hang with me here. It is the Thunder Tiger Imagine 50. Now I know it's not a "Pattern" airplane, but I bought it to have some fun. I have been amazed at how well things fit. This airplane has a one-piece wing and you have to glue the two halves together. The bottom of the wing has a checkerboard pattern and I didn't notice until I glued it together that the checkerboard pattern carries through perfectly across the center of the wing! This is not the only thing that "fits', but is simply an example of the quality I discovered in this ARF. I plan to test hop it on Tuesday and hope it flies as well as it looks.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ron Van Putte</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 13, 2008, at 8:07 PM, chris moon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> Since it has been so quiet, I want to stir the pot and ask everyone why <br>it is that we as a group accept lots of poor quality kits and just shrug <br>it off? I spoke with 2 people this weekend who are building different <br>planes and both are unhappy with the quality of the kits. Pieces are <br>warped and twisted and tubes misaligned and we just say..."oh well, I'll <br>fix it". One guy said something to the effect that well, it was ONLY <br>$1,000.00!!!! We are way too lenient on accepting cruddy quality and <br>just fixing it. I know there are not a lot of vendors out there, but we <br>are happy to pay just $1,000 and get a twisted plane in return?? I was <br>told one popular plane that many guys now have has 5 DEGREES of down <br>thrust mistakenly molded into the fuse and everyone just says, oh well, <br>I'll fix it. Don't know about you, but $1,000 is a lot of dough to me, <br>and to happily pay for a cruddy product in return is just wrong. I <br>still remember that famous email from one mfg that basically said that <br>the person complaining about his wing was twisted should be HAPPY that <br>it was twisted because famous pilot XX flew the plane too and he won the <br>NATS with it. The problem is that we don't as a group send the junk back <br>and demand that we get our money's worth. Nobody expects a perfect kit <br>without any problems at all, but aren't we too lenient? Maybe we need <br>to just buy kits like Mike's Black Magic and then we can only blame <br>ourselves if it comes out crooked.<br>Sorry, but I really feel that we are being taken advantage of due to the <br>limited supply of planes available and we are told to take it or leave it.<br><br>Ok, I feel better now.<br><br>Chris<br><br><br><hr>Get the power of Windows + Web with the new Windows Live. <a href="http://www.windowslive.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_powerofwindows_012008" target="_new">Get it now!</a><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NSRCA-discussion mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>