Hi Bob,

The prices I quoted above are all US dollars. Our Kiwi dollar is currently running at around 71 cents US so it is still mostly uphill out there. As far as kits go, there are very few good overseas ones available here. We are being bombarded with lots of 'cheap' ARF`s from Asia, but they are agin my religion at this time...

I started a thread on kits here in this forum under the heading 'Kit Manufacturers, consider this', back at the end of last month. I`m not through with that subject yet and will get back to it later.

I mention overseas kits above as 'Airsail' here in NZ produce some good 'builders' kits that are probably as good as most from overseas - ref their Piper Tomakawk and DH Chipmunk among others.

Back to the Shrike. Sunday morning right now and I`m off out the door in a few minutes to fly the morning away at our local strip. Also, we`ll be out of town for a few days as of tomorrow so there will be no further progress on my one for a few days.

I`ll get back to all this later.

Alan W