I'm still laughing my ***** off. Keep it real brother!! I think that falls in the rant category opposed to flame.

Seriously, we all know some ARFs are better than others and some units of the same ARF are better than others. I also think we all know (regardless of sometimes accusatory tones) that the end of the day we are each ultimately responsible for our aircraft and the damage they take or cause. I appreciate hearing about others experiences so I can have safer planes and more fun.

Jason.

For the record, My US 120 with a Saito 180 has taken everything I can throw at it. Walls, blenders, spinns, snaps, harrier landings... with no bad results. I had read about the problems and heavily reinforced the firewall, wing blocks, tail and gear block. That combined with thorough pre and post flight inspections and my instance of catastrophic structural failures has dropped to nil.... but the newtonian 'law of conservation of crushed balsa' kicked in so my rate of engine and radio failure induced crashes increased to pick up the slack.