Great news. The DV made it without damage. Although the boxes seemed a little trampled and soft, the contents of the box where unscathed. Well packed and and taped into place, everything looks good. THE RUDDER IS HUGE, YAYAYAYAY!!! I like huge rudder!!!

First thoughts. Great looking airplane. Nicely finished, pretty colors, smooth and definately of the highest quality I have seen in a product from China. Excellent paint on the cowl. Overall, a superb, even tremendous value.

After a quick once over and putting it back into the box I have only a couple of concerns. The nicely crafted servo boxes in the wings don't look quite wide enough to accomodate the Futaba servos in their standard case size. I really do not want to go chopping into them. Thoughts anyone? I did not actually try fitting a servo, they just looked narrow. Secondly, the interplane struts are not RTF. The cutouts where not in place. Mistake or is that the norm? No biggy, an hours work to align, drill and cut. F2 needs a spot of epoxy on one side of one of the airplanes. That's a one minute job. Lastly, the spring latch for the canopy does not have a very positive springy latchy feel to it. I'll have to fiddle with that a bit to ensure is stays well put.

Now all I need is time, a bench (no room for a while), an exhaust system and I'll get it together.

Lastly, does anyone know the matching color for the red. Chip calls the covering Chinacote so I figure I'll have to find a close match in Oracover. Is Ferrari red the closest? I want to open the covering by the tail to move the anti-rotation pin support and have the professional result as shown in an earlier posting for lowering the incidence of the stab.

Regards,
Mark