At this point, we must interject a comment. The DynaFlite Bird of Time ARF wing was significantly changed. The second version of the wing is very easily seen to be of different construction. People who had difficulties with early kits had them replaced with new kits, and those were still earlly kits. Those individuals were told what they were getting. Nobody was lied to, contrary to a previous poster's allegation. No, it won't take a full-pedal winch launch, but then neither will the kit Bird of Time, or even a plans-built one, if built to the plans. It's not in the design.

Owners of the Great Planes Lancair have had some difficulties, but nothing widespread.

Please be aware of the fact that individuals post on different discussion groups and that one poster may have different aliases on those groups. If 3 people have a problem and post on 3 boards, read by 10 people each, who also comment back and forth, you can have a much larger number of people say that they've heard of the "problem". Suddenly, those 3 incidents have been magnified by several times, and many people now comment on a "widespread" problem that they've heard about.

If anyone has an actual defect with one of the Great Planes ARF kits (or any other product), we have NEVER failed to work with them. We are extrememly concerned about that owners of our models receive the flying pleasure out of our kits that they expect. Great Planes has not become the largest producer of kits and ARF models by stinting on quality and customer service.