RE: Is Kit Building Making a "Comeback"?
Ya can't even buy a Stick kit anymore. [sm=cry_smile.gif]
I love to build but there just aren't any kits out there that I want to build. I'm hooked on Giant Scale Aerobatic planes, but you don't see too many kits available. The ones that are available are either 20yr old technology (Midwest) or they are rediculously overpriced. (Carden, Aeroworks)
I'd like to build a big stick. Like the current ARFs available. The GP Giant Big Stick. That would be great as a kit. Simple, big, easy to fly. It's not really on my list of usual planes to fly--but they are fun and it would be an easy kit to build and modify. Slap a gas engine on it and you got a nice Sunday flier that you built yourself.
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually thinking about building a Cub.[sm=red_smile.gif] GP makes a 90" Cub kit that would be perfect for a BME .90 gas engine. Or even the Sig 105" plane would work for a small gas engine. But, the GP has a semi-symetrical wing--and I like that a bit more than the flat bottom wing that Sig offers.