EXTREME FLIGHT

Perhaps a bit of a history lesson is in order here:
Mrs. Liu and Bear, the owners of Haikong are dear friends of mine. They have been in the ARF busiess as long as anyone. They both worked for The World Models manufacturing ARFs. The World Models was one of the very first large scale producers of ARFs in China. Both Mrs. Liu and her husband Bear worked their way up from assembly line workers to management postions. They were lured away from TWM by Sammy Lee of Kinwah Industrial (now with Aviation Models) with promises of better pay. After many months of working for NOTHING Mrs. Liu left Kinwah and went to work for P&D Products, also known as 2KRC. Under the management of Mrs. Liu, P&D Products was producing some of the best ARFs in the business. This is the era in which the 68" Yak, Mini 3D, .40 Profile, and 87" Yak were built. Being the highly ambitious couple that they are, Bear and Mrs. Liu pooled their resources and set out to start their own factory, Haikong. P&D really suffered after the departure of Mrs. Liu and QC became almost nonexistant, at which time we ended our relationship with them. Some of the desings being worked on at P&D were taken by Mrs. Liu to be manufactured at her new facility, 2 of these being our 68" Yak and 87" Yak. We were approached by Haikong to have aircraft built for us. The first plane they built for us was the Yak-55SP-E (The original shipment of these planes was first manufatured by P&D). The quality of these aircraft exceed that of the original and impressed us here at Extreme Flight. We were also sent a sample of the 74" Yak, which was based on our 68" version. We assembled the aircraft and were very impressed with its flight capabilities. We were at a point where we needed to make a decison about our next glow release. We decided to go with the 74" Yak over the 68" Yak due to the abundance of engines on the market to adequately power this size aircraft. We made a few changes to the 74" Yak including the addition of the canopy latch, a lightened tail group and a few other small things we had learned from customer feedback regarding the 68" Yak. The result is the 74" Yak we will be releasing.
It is no secret that Haikong also produces aircraft for Hyperion. Several samples of the 74" Yak were sent to various companies at the same time we received our initial sample. Some sales were made to a few companies before we received the exclusive on this product. We allowed Haikong to honor these sales, but this is now our exclusive product, under contract.
The ARF industry is a very competitve and complex creature.