First, the history.... I started off building kits, as it was really the only option. ARF's were heavy, ugly, and built by lanier. First Kit was a TopFlite Schoolmaster, Citizenship Mule Xmtr, Super Regen Rcvr, Royal Servo, Lasted about 4 flights. Followed by a Jr. Falcon, same radio. Followed by a Tauri, then a Taurus, Sr. Falcon, Aeromaster, Contender, Smith Mini-plane, etc. etc. Seems like only yesterday that the only thing you could do was build a kit. Now, it's almost impossible to find a good kit at a decent price. I know I for one would love to see a lot of the 'old' kits re-issued. A comment was made that kit manuf. are making more $$ for less work with ARF's, i guess by importing them from overseas. Now I wonder if TopFlite re-issued the Taurus, or Goldberg the Sr. Falcon, if those would be profitable. With some changes to the construction to more modern methods, I'll bet they'd do well with them. Then there is the pride of building it, the shear joy of showing off at the local field with a new bird with real sweat built in. Just don't seem to able to get all excited about the newest ARF, but throw a pile of even die-crunched balsa in front of me and I start drooling like pavlov's dogs. maybe someday soon, we'll see some new kits, at least I sure hope so. I'm getting tired of prowling swap meets and flea-bay looking for my bi-yearly fix of balsa dust.