You're right AA5BY. I have had the same experience with the few ARF's that I have owned. The Decathlon I have that I bought at the swap meet has had the landing gear repaired as a result of a less than perfect landing. The fellow I bought it from was right up front about the fact that he had repaired it and what had happened to cause the repairs. He made more than a few improvements while he was doing the repairs and even went to the point of removing all the covering in order to inspect and re-glue all that he could and at the same time made improvements to the control rods etc. The plane has been completely recovered with Monokote ( I would have used Ultracote but that's no big deal) and hopefully things are as they should be now. I'll find out as soon as the weather warms up.