RE: ARF's
I am grateful for the availability of wood made ARF planes. Of course, It is probably better to build a plane from scratch but Iwould probably not be in the hobby right now due to lack of time if ARFs were not available. I will take a laser cut balsa/ply ARF plane over a foam plane any time any day. I don't have anything against foam planes, in fact Iown many of them. It is just that the wood ones feel more like a hobby and less like a toy.