RE: how good is arf compaired to self built f3a planes?
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I've done both and here's my current opinion. I spent 6 months building a 2m pattern plane. . . If I would have started with my Icepoint instead, I would have been done building in two weeks and could have used the balance of the time - 5 months, 2 weeks - practicing.
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