Another brutal fact is that our hobby is slowly dying. Look at the guys at the field. Most are old and gray like me...very few kids to grow it. Price is also an issue. A nice sport scale warbird will run $1500 to get ready..a jet even more. Dont knock the foamies as they be our salvation as they are affordable to young guys who try the hobby. The last thing is most everyone has the number one issue is price point..I want it cheap, dont want to pay American manufactured price so guess what...they are all going going gone. Lots of guys make it their personal war on BVM because of the price. Well you get what you pay for. I have never had to re-engineer anything Bob sold..cant say that about the Chinese ARFs. Even Skymaster requires lots of work to make them fly reliably and you pay about the same price. I personally think they are painted turds. I still like to build but how many real jet kits are out there. Avonds is about it. (wonderful experience to build one of his kits). Oh well I said it. Headed the kitchen to pop some popcorn.