I honestly think the only problem with this kit that need serious addressing is the retract mounts... but as for the horizontal stab... Im with Rbeav533.... I think alot of those issues are from assembly... Those tubes where a real tight fit on my plane, and it would be real easy to crack a rib trying to get them in, and if I remember right, mine also needed about 1/4 inch trimmed off (if someone just tried to make them fit as-is, I could see problems)... If I had it to do all over again, I would have used liberal amounts of gorilla glue on the tubes, inside te stabs, and epoxy where they join the fuse (as opposed to just epoxy which I did). When that gorilla glue foams and goes off, everything would become encapsulated inside in the horxiontal stabs....

All in all however, this kit does take more time to assemble than the average arf, and acctually does require a fair amount of thought (compared to most ARF's)....so for those people who just want a quick couple of evening of assembly.....This aint your bird..... But all in all, it's one sweet looking plane, and for $300 I'd call it a good deal considering what you get. Afterall, what fun would this all be if you didn't have to do some slight modifications... And fortunatly for all of you who are just getting started, there have been enough of us guinny pigs to show where the problems are (all 3 that i can think of.... H stab, retract mounts, and get as much weight forward as possible)...Flying wise, for a warbird, it's very good and no supprises.


Still haven't decided on my plan of attack on the retract mounts....still looking at that and thinking what;s going to be easiest to do without taking steps backwards (ie pulling the sheeting off)....