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Old 02-19-2004 | 12:48 PM
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famousdave
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Default RE: ARF Quality Experiment

We're talking manufacturers here.. not necessarily planes.

Worst: VMAR, Lanier - Won't ever buy one of these again, not for any reason.

So-So - Watt-Age , not impressed one bit, most (not all) of them are underpowered and built like crap..

Pretty good - SIG, Great Planes, H9 some are really good, others have been riddled with problems. Nearly all required hours of
heat gun and sealing iron to shrink covering. Inconsistency seams to rule here. For examply - my GP venus and slow poke were awesome, but the Lanceair and Patty had lots of issues. The H9 P-51 was a POS to assemble, but once together is the best flying warbird... almost not worth the BS though.... Great Planes and H9 have excellent customer service though...


Excellent - Top-Flite, Composite-Arf, Kangke, Wild Hare . I'd say the large scale H9 stuff looks really good on the same level as well. Built as well as anything I could build. Covering jobs were flawless. Customer service is the best in the business.. especially Kangke.

Once you have experienced what "excellent" is like with the latter group, you will know why I put GP and H9 as only pretty good. If you don't do large scale, then pretty good is as good as it gets !

DP