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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 12:21:33 AM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 5:49:04 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 6:08:59 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 6:43:27 PM   
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Personally, I'd like to see SIG bring back some of the good ones.

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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 9:51:45 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 9:58:01 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 10:11:44 PM   
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Strikemaster by Midwest


Yep, a second vote for the Midwest Strikemaster

Also the GP F-4 and F-14 propjets, just so Pete could have one of each... no, you can't have mine heheheh

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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 10:42:41 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/15/2005 11:00:01 PM   
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DANG aaah but you have to drive by my place when you go home (someday) Don and the trailer may get a little lighter


Actually, it'll get heavier. Beer weighs more than balsa wood.

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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 4:02:25 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 4:06:01 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 4:13:26 PM   
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Kyosho AgWagon - I never owned one, but for some reason I have always wanted one. I know it was an ARF, but I'd still like to see it brought back.

ARF's are fine in this thread if the moderator doesn't step in.
I would like to see Hanger9 bring back the Sukhoi.

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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 4:29:35 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 10:44:54 PM   
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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 11:20:56 PM   
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I have been putting away kits since I was at school with the hope of someday building them - hopefully before retirement - but it looks as through retirement will catch up with me first.
From this side of the pond the American kits were just dreams for us teenagers however I do have a Tauri, Taurus, and Cessna 62 put away along with numerous CAP kits. Someday I will get around to building them.

For me however, the kit I would like to see rekitted would be the KeilKraft Super 60. I remember it well on the landing glide with the sound of reeds echoing over a disused WW2 airfield.

Keep up the excellent site.

All the best - keep sweeping up the poor landings.

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RE: What Kit would you like to see brought back? - 6/16/2005 11:37:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ah! Reed radios. NOT something I'd like to see come back. Club I was in just before going into the USAF was fortunate. One of the more rabid members had a 2nd class FCC commercial ticket. His Ford van was outfitted with enough equipment to do repair on these monstrosities, including accurate reed tuning. When he restocked the radios he sold at his hobby shop, they got a good going over before he sold them, so that the transmitter was usually peaked tighter than what it left the manufacturer as, and the reciever was bench tuned right on the money. Also, as the city Fire Chief, he made sure the department equipment was kept up to snuff in spite of the political nature of the city engineers office.

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