<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><p>I know when a top pilot places an order with a kit manufacturers that kit manufacturer will go the extra mile to make sure that plane is built better (lighter, etc.) than the standard run of planes. That may mean taking extra time to weight contest balsa, etc. I'm OK with that but it could mean that not all the kits manufactured will make weight.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Do you know this for a fact? Or is this an assumption/hearsay? <br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">I've weighed items for an airplane built for Quique, and the weights weren't out of range for other airplanes of the same type built for anybody else. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:16 AM, RON HANSEN <<a href="mailto:rcpilot@wowway.com">rcpilot@wowway.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><p>The issue as I see it isn't necessarily about cost.</p>
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<p>I want to buy a new legal 2M airplane or a used legal 2M airplane without having to ask the question: Does it make weight?</p>
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<p>How many building threads have you read on RC Universe where they start off by weighing all of the components. What is the point? Well the builder wants to prove to the reader that this kit is light and will make weight.</p>
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<p>I know when a top pilot places an order with a kit manufacturers that kit manufacturer will go the extra mile to make sure that plane is built better (lighter, etc.) than the standard run of planes. That may mean taking extra time to weight contest balsa, etc. I'm OK with that but it could mean that not all the kits manufactured will make weight.</p>
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<p>If we raise or eliminate the weight rule then we all won't have to worry about the weight issue as much.</p>
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<p>Ron Hansen</p></div></div></blockquote></body></html>