What about planes like the Hot Rod ?... I used to Race them in our local High Wing class.. A real good flying FAST plane... However the last one I built (about a year and a half ago) still had the funny, brittle, smelly wood in the wing (caps and ribs etc) and the tail surfaces... I built a total of three of these for racing... I would start by trying to get as many warps as possible out of the elevator rudder and ailerons... I thought the rudder especially was a work of art the way it was built up, beautiful... But it was made of that funny wood that warps... What a shame... I cut the elevator halfs apart, flattened them and reepoxied them.. THe ailerons were a little more of a problem.. They also are "built up"... With heat and twisting I could get some of it out.. Then I flew it and trimmed the
rest of it out.. The hardware I threw away except for the nose gear... Last one had the control horn (metal) already soldered to the nose wire... Nice touch.. The coveing is IMHO is not the best.. It has a real tendancy to "prune" up in the hot sun.. Just a few of the highlights here... Guess I am asking if these problems have been resolved yet ?..
As previously stated... Vmar has a great lineup of planes and the ones I have seen/flown so far are great flyers... It is the shoddy wood, construction and covering that is killing them IMHO..