Originally posted by DavidR
Easytiger,
C'mon now...... CAI did it's share of bashing as well. I remember hearing the comment several times from the CAI camp about putting BVM out of the jet business. Also it was not just the F-100 that had problems......if you want come down to Mississippi and I will show you a pile of runway lights that the CAI team took out at our event 2 years ago with their Raptors. And was that not a CAI panther that folded up mid air and crashed into that condo down at Top Gun last year?
It is a shame to see another modelling venture fold up but instead of coming out with a company that is going to be bigger, better, faster, stronger, why not just try to prove that your models are well built and a viable entitiy without trying to destroy your competition. It is the way of the buisness world only the strong survive. They had some nice planes but they were also heavy and not as throughly tested before they hit the market.
David, can't argue with anything you said, really. No doubt they could and should have tested their stuff better.
Only one thing, though...the folded wing on the Panther was a simple case of pilot error...the wing was not locked properly. The mechanism did not fail. Saw the wreckage with mine own two eyes. Nice airplane, that Panther.