ORIGINAL: essyou35
No offense but this is a gross exaggeration and full of drama. If this were the case then all the models that crash for everyother reason would also be putting us at risk. Jets have been crashing for lots of years now and we're all still around. Plenty of people flying over houses, hangars or the what not and these FEJ jets are not the worst of our problems.
This is about $$ and customer service, safety is is questionable given everything else that goes on in this hobby. There's plenty of spektrum problems that have lost jets and no one is ou there bashing them. Park flyers in neighborhoods, afterburners, cold soldering joints. All work against us.
Like I said no offense but just keeping it real.
ORIGINAL: YellowAircraft
a successful model or design and a time-bomb (waiting to kill someone or otherwise 86 our hobby)
Hi,
No offense taken, but it's no exaggeration. Of course, every crash is a potential threat to this segment of the hobby. We can have a dumb-thumb crash with a perfectly sound model and THAT crash will be the one that generates the horror-filled headline. That's not what I'm talking about, though. I'm talking about models that are clearly not airworthy as-is or otherwise
likely to have failures. I've built SEVERAL of these for customers, and I am not being dramatic.