funny thing is when I first started building RC planes about 1976, there might have been a couple of ARF's on the market and I didn't even know the term until I returned to the hobby about 4yrs ago things had changed allot since then. building a warbird was out of the question for a 15 Y.O. kid now the selection is limitless and allot fly like sport planes . as much as I enjoy the building, popping a plane out of a box and having it flight ready in a couple of days does have huge of appeal, most of my flyable planes are ARF's but my kit builds are catching up . FYI was just framing up my tail, on my latest kit tonight TF P-47 60 size