jbflier,

Yes I remember the Lanier Jester, its the worst ARF in the world. To this day I nearly puke when I think about it.
It is my belief that Lanier never tried to assembled one and never took one out to fly. I know that Lanier is a different company now but I still can't force myself to buy one of their planes. The Jester was an assemblage of bad ideas and should have been aborted before they cut up a bunch of plastic and foam to make it.
After all these years that thing is still in my basement and when I see it I always wonder how Lanier had the gall to put it on the market. They must have had a deep seated hatred for model builders.