LETS SAVE SIG BEFORE THEY GET SWALLOWED BY THE BIG TWO!!!
Tom
The only thing I did not like was the one piece wing on the 300XS - not the end of the world however made transporting a tad challenging. I have a 40cc Brison 2.4 engine that hasn't even been broken in good sitting on the bench waiting and was debating on whether to let it go or not. The 300XS and the Brison just makes me think of longevity and a solid built combo.
If you go to forums you can see my build log as well on this bird.
I took a year to build this plane and sold a Hangar 9 T-craft (which was my favorite plane at the time) to build the Bravo. I can attest that the Bravo flew extremely well and I wish Sig had a better Marketing plan. I firmly believe that if Sig (among others) would learn how to market online they would be more succesful than they are.
Hope it works out for them.
Enjoy the videos
Glenn Williams
Glenn
Some people just dont get it do they? (See post above). I guess it is ok to raise taxes too as long as your government programs stay the same as well huh? Just sayin.
Glenn
Tom
I've flown Sig airplanes for years. Most of them were stick built kits, but I really liked the Senior Kadet ARF also. The pricing on the Sig website for the ARF is crazy high, but if you go to Advantage it's still priced reasonable, although on backorder status. If getting swallowed up by the "Big 2" increases availability and keeps prices in line, I'm all for it!
I miss the SIG products at the LHS.
I would like SIG to remain in the kit business. I've bought about a dozen of their kits. There was an alarm either last year, or the year before that SIG has shut their doors. That's probably the reason the OP started this thread.
SIG is a great RC kit company that has been around for as long as I can remember
Sig supplies the hobby with a good deal of the balsa wood ,the quality of there kit wood is very high for that reason
I have an original SIG 40 size SWEET STIK with a 51 ST engine it is the plane i have flown the most in 22 years of flying RC and i have over 20 planes ready to fly ,have about 500 or so flights on it
I have freshened up the plane 4 times in 22 years ,it is one of my keepers
Always a relaxing fun day at the flying field ,easy breezy flying day , RELAXED
I built anheadral into the wing-being a top wing plane it flys better than ever ,much less control coupling than before
It does look a bit odd ,but it flys much better
The fuse will no longer accept a film covering-so i coated it in SIGMENT GLUE to fuel proof it ,as nothing would stick to the surface after 3-4 film coatings had been applied in the past
Just brushed on the SIG glue and it smooths out very well ,kind of like the wood look and no film to come up on the seams
KEEP SIG ALIVE
Regards Tony
Aside from kits and ARFs, SIG makes/sells a lot of quality hardware, tools, glues, paints/coatings (dope), castor oil, etc... that I use even if I am assembling an ARF. That part of SIG I would miss more than the ARFs/kits and is not replaceable by other brands, IMHO.
I've flown Sig airplanes for years. Most of them were stick built kits, but I really liked the Senior Kadet ARF also. The pricing on the Sig website for the ARF is crazy high, but if you go to Advantage it's still priced reasonable, although on backorder status. If getting swallowed up by the ''Big 2'' increases availability and keeps prices in line, I'm all for it!
That's exactly what I meant with this thread.I'm also not a tower hater I've been purchasing from them since I was 14 years old(1986).
I can see that sig still has a good customer base and are trying to get their arf line established again. In the mean time it seems to me the kits are keeping the money flowing in order to get to that point.
Hind sight is 20/20 as we all know. Whats here today could be gone tomorrow and I don't want the people that LOVE or even those that could LOVE Sig products in the future to miss out because we were caught sleeping. Carl Goldberg,Lanier,and Midwest are the ones that come to mind but there are many more beside them that are not with us as manufactures anymore.
I am currently building a 1/4 scale Skybolt from a short kit, not by Sig however, but virtually all the wood I used was by Sig.
Love me some Sig.
Cheers!
Jollidude
I had called them 6 or more months ago about arf parts and they had nothing to offer, it seemed they were on the way out, but their web site shows a renewed strength.
Hope they keep going!
I'm a big Sig fan and have enjoyed several of their kits over the past 25 years. I started with a Kadet Mrk. II and later continued with one of their quick build mustangs, an aquastar and owned a kougar that someone gave me for a little while. All are good plans. A few years I wanted something for my sons to get started in the hobby and was pleased to find the Sig Senioreta EP ARFs and now have two of them (one for each boy). It may have been a mistake but I couldn't bring myself to buy a big expensive block of foam. One of the best things about Sig kits are the instructions. I still have the instructions for my 25 year old Kadet. It is great reference for how to determine thrust lines, CG, incidence angle, pushrod geometry and other things. Much of this knowledge is omitted, or incorrectly assumed to be comon knowledge by other manufacturers.
Some new owners bought the company a few years ago and they are going through the lineup of models and adjusting the offerings to make the company stable fo the long term. I know this from speaking with some of the employees at the Toledo RC show the past two years. Unfortunately this means that some of the offerings are temporarily or permanently unavailable. Some of their Asian build ARFs have been removed and will be replaced. Unfortunately these designs have gone Grey Market and can be bought through other suppliers. Even though the quality of these grey market models is not the best I'm sure this hurts Sig. Some of their supplies and offerings will not come back (their covering, engines, and certain models) but they should be building their line of offerings back up.
When I shop for a model I always check their site. If nothing else they have some great stuff to look at. Wish my local shop had some of them.
Happy building and flying.