I see the benefit of external servos for 3D/sport flyers where you want the linkage short and stiff and move the CG aft. But for scale planes? That's wrong!

I guess you can make a foam plane look real nice if you put some effort into it, but not the factory blow-molded stuff.

Rap is crap!

I also don't like the new trend to have 2-piece main landing gears (aluminum). Maybe it saves manufacturing cost, but it seems much flimsier than the one-piece.

Cheap chinese screws, pushrods, clevises, etx... that go straight from the ARF box to the trash.

I still haven't figured out why my wife puts up with me either.