years ago china was red china and they were determined to become a superpower and they threw the communists out and realized capitalism was the best way to bury the usa without ever firing a missle.They have learned to beat us where it hursts the most in our wallet.as one moddeller here apatly put it we have done it to ourselves..I would love to have owned a hobbyshop but with internet websites and overseas cheap production its a wonder any hobbyshop even exists.when balsa costs started shooting up you knew that wood kits were going to disappear.and we went from from the poor quality of arfs like old laniers to new vietnam and china made laser cut arfs.I plead guilty as I love flying 3dhobby planes the quality is very good.

I am one now who hates hobbyking.customer service is the pits and shipping is very costly at times and the wait is a killer.I will continue to support my LHS when I can and if I pay a little more so what ...one of the biggest problems in this country is that we DON'T man ufacture much of anything.but if we tried to re-capture manufacturing which would create jobs...then nobody wil buy given the high business taxes and american culture for cheap prices..we have done it to ourselves wanting wally world inferior goods at cheap prices .that puts workers out of work and unto unemployment and medicaid and in a number of cases workers too old onto social security.its a viscious cruel cycle..

but I do build and love building scale planes ..theres balsa around and you just have to know where to go and yes even designer short kits etc.