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Old 05-06-2006 | 09:44 AM
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Default RE: 3D Biplanes.com??

Hi guys!!
Guess what, 3D biplanes are available! At least for now.
I would encourage anyone to try making RC kits. You would find that flipping burgers at Burger King is much easier and pays much better.

Lets take a look at a 3D biplane. There is $156. in materials and outside expenses in the kit.( Remember that it is a biplane. You can't compare it to a monoplane). The box that it is shipped in is $8.50. It takes 30 minutes to package a kit. Most planes cost more to ship than what is charged for shipping. The plane sells for $199. Take away the fixed costs and that leaves about $24.00
The bottom line is that you make $24. to package the plane and get nothing to build the kit. What make it worse is that to the fixed costs at $156. you have to buy enough materials to build at least 200 kits.
Why would a person build model airplane kits?

My son and I built and flew our first biplanes a couple of years ago. There are absolutely no other airplanes like them, period!!!
That is why I made these first 200 kits. I wanted modelers to witness for themselves real high alpha 3D flight. It's so fun if you have a plane that will actually do it well!!

We have owned our machine shop for 32 years and it is quite profitable. I made these kits for the love of the hobby! I only have about 30 kits left to sell. I will keep parts for those who need them. I sell them on my own as not to bother our machine shop operations.

I won't be advertising them any more because the remaining kits will sell by word of mouth.

I will say in closing----- everything in our hobby is a bargain-I don't think anyone makes much selling RC products!!!

They all do it for the love of the hobby!!!