ORIGINAL: Jet Lag
Those of us that only occasionally jump in don't have to worry,but the ones that emerse them selves take the chance of being burnt.It takes a thick skin person to spar with the likes of ET who is on the cutting edge of foamy technology and a published author and GK Jr who has been brain washed with 16 years and thousands of $ spent with BV and now finds out the cult leader is going Electric.Will he leave the turbine crowd as he did the ducted fan followers.Only time will tell.At least,if he is producing his old favorites for electric flight,we can stick a 7-8 lb turbine in it and fly a real jet model for not much more dollers spent.
In all seriousness, BV hardly ABANDONED the DF market...he made the BEST df systems out there, and sold them for as long as it was worth selling them, supported them very well, and when the market fell out of that side of things, he stopped. We can poke fun at Ol' Bob, but you have to give him his props, he knows his stuff, he runs his outfit well, and he can charge whatever he wants, and his customers are still happy. Can't beat that.