I have never understood the Spad following. To be fair, maybe it is because I have not owned one. I just find it hard to believe that a large following of people make over these as much as they do. As I said I have never owned one, but they just strike me as being way over rated even with their current price tags. Please correct me someone, and let me in on the secret of what makes these Planes so awsome. It sounds like the fellow down the road from me in the post above has found at least one bad spad.