RE: LETS SAVE SIG BEFORE THEY GET SWALLOWED BY THE BIG TWO!!!
I posted pix of my 4 star 120 Sunday flyer on page 3. Have read all the posts. So, this...I would love to have a hobby store today like I frequented back in 1960. As I delivered newspapers after school, I mindlessly dreamed of the rows and shelves of kit boxes. RC days came for me in 1970, I was buyin' and buildin' as fast as my poor college budget could handle. I was good for at least 6 crashes and new planes a year. Thats when I got introduced to a sweet stick. Well that pattern of crashing 6 a year went on for years....Until I got my first real flight system. Suddenly I wasn't crashing anymore. Just filling the attic and garage with planes. Dozens. One day I sat down and figured that at my current crash rate ( in about 1996) I had enough for a lifetime. I quit buying kits. Saved a few bridi, Sig, and four Aeromasters for later. I am 63 now, and still have too many planes. 1 dirty birdy 60, 5 sig planes, sundancer, sometin' extra, 4 star 1.20, 60 kadet, and the Aeromasters. Those are my comfort food planes, that make me feel so good. But what I fly most are the Quick Build ARF's, from Japan and China ....and my upgraded Real Flight on the computer. I'd rather fly than build anymore. Sig is/was the best....but those days are gone. I don't think sig can catch up via the new generation of pilots I don't see flocking to the hobby stores to buy a kit.