I just bought my 5th RC ARF a couple weeks ago. A Goldberg Skylark 56. Overall, a much better quality overall than the first couple Oriental ARF imports I've had. Better glue joints, better fitting joints in general. Even looks like they used a real wood glue and not some kind of hot melt. Still didn't like the threaded wire for the pushrods, although the clevises seem to be of higher quality than I've had in the past. The clevises actually screw on tight. Almost very other ARF I've had in the past, quality control was so bad, the threaded clevises could slide on, or were so brittle they broke while trying to install them into the control horns. The wire was so brittle, I broke three of four at the 90 degree bends. Luckily, a LHS stocks metric sized DuBro threaded rod, which is much better.

In less than 7 hours, at no more than a 1.5 hour working stint, and lots of 15 to 30 minute bursts of effort, it is ready for it's maiden flight, hopefully this weekend.

I still don't foresee my throwing out my collection of kits, balsa wood, and plans, or buying too many more ARFs. Although I've wanted a Skylark for a number of years, actually since the first version was introduced, I think I would have had much more satisfaction building from a kit or from the original plans, than I got from assembling this ARF. I am still a bit concerned about the relative softness of the plywood. Still, the Chinese builders did a pretty good job on this plane.