Originally Posted by
Gordon W
Several years ago Lockheed Martin had their lawyers demand license payments from kit manufacturers who were producing scale models of their historic designs, eg the P-38 Lightning. This act was well publicised on the RCGroups electric scale forum at the time and at least one small scale producer just stopped making and selling his kits as the license fees were too much and it was uneconomic to continue.
Does anyone know if Lockheed have stopped their demands for such payments? If they haven't, maybe the license fee is delaying the F-35 gaining popularity among model jet manufacturers.
Gordon
Funny anecdote.....an LM rep saw my F-35 model and asked me who made it....to which I replied a company in China. He's million dollar answer was that no company in China is paying royalties for any LM product licensing (from his answer I take it includes the venerable F-16).
So, take it with a grain of salt. Sometimes is just better to ask fro forgiveness than to ask for permission.
