Tam was in China until the day before Christmas, he is back now and working in his shop. I talked to him on New Years eve and I will be going to see him this week. Yes the Super Hornet crashed at Arizona jets and was the first of 5 jets that went into radio lockout at that event. The prototype Super Hornet did not have any scale panel lines and detail and was built, flown, and structure tested before any of that was put into the tooling. This was done so if there were any design changes that needed to be done, then it could be fixed easily and re tested. The one and only prototype that was built performed flawlessly and took a hell of a beating without any signs of reinforcement needed, so Tams trip to China was mainly concentrated on scale detail and getting his factory ready for production. As I understand it, Tam will have a few of the final production planes shipped to him and ready for Florida Jets, and the rest of them will be following shortly.
For any other information, contact Tam directly he is back in the shop busy as usual.

Dave