transatlanticflight
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Joined: 7/26/2006
From: , MA, USA
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For the record I purchased KMP over the yellow spitfire only because the yellow kit is really not as "ready to fly" as the KMP. Time is money for all of us. In my opinion, price is not the issue in selling more planes at this level. (OK don't gouge me though) Quality and completeness of the kit, in all aspects, is the lure. And from what I've seen so far it doesn't matter who's kit you buy - you'll be a year trying to find all the parts you're going to want to complete it!! Never mind putting it together. I just unpacked my kmp and had to start a thread to source components to finish it the way a scale plane should be finished (scale exhaust, proper engine so as not to butcher the cowl, and precision flight hardware so I can make the 3d guys drool with envy. Warbirds rule! and a yak is a yak is a yak no matter what day-glow color skeme you dream up.
I'll admit I'm new to my club, and the sport, only flying for 3 months. I have cut my teeth on the H9 mustang pts..OK laugh away...but take the training wheels off and it will fly like a plane on a 2 blade prop. And at $399, complete with radio and engine installed, I'm in the air in 1 hour- literally open the box at the flying field. And at that price its disposable. And you know what, that cheap little plane got more comments on the ground and in the air than anything else including the new 30% Yak on the block. And it's got everybody getting into combat planes.
So now I know how to fly and I want more. More scale realism, retracts, better flight characteristics, maybe a gas engine without re-inventing the plane. And Performance!! I don't want to see a wooden dowel pushrod that I have to cut and assemble and hope I get it right because there's no length specified, and then have to cut the beautiful fiberglass fuse I just paid for! Poor hinges, wimpy control linkage that's going to send my investment into the ground.
I don't know about the rest of you, but when I buy a car I don't want to get the one without the sun roof or a stereo so that I can drive around looking for someone to put those things in! That's what a MFG is supposed to do.
So Yellow, again, in my humble opinion you're kits are reputed to be the best Spitfire out there...I would have loved to have been able to call up and have you send me a product over night that was nothing more than final assembly and a selection of customizable options or upgrades in the form of powerplant, hardware, scale details, etc. It would be fabulous to build from a menu of options that you know are designed to work. Have a basic package, get in the air, upgrade as you go. Winter is only three months long - I don't want to be building anything longer than the time that I CAN'T be flying. AND THAT's THAT!!! 
If you're wondering about price point I would start with the price of some of the performance planes that are out there. I think a 30% Yak complete and in the air goes for about $2500-$3,000. I'd pay another $500-$1000 to make that Yak a high peformance scale warbird if that's what it takes. Few of us will live long enough to build all the kits we'd like to fly. And personally...I'm leary about buying planes used...no different then cars. If you're looking for investors in the high performance almost RTF warbird business...I'm in. Should I drive north and visit your shop?
For what it's worth.
Rick -aka transatlanticflight
Plymouth, MA
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