ORIGINAL: LuftwaffeOberst
You buy cheap, you get cheap and it will take considerable work to get CMP's flying properly. Also, you can not use all the Hardware and the Paint chips off easy.
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Peter Dowling aka Luftwaffe Oberst
AMA District II # 865404
Aero Modelers Club
Pulaski, NY
I would agree with you. I'm surprised at all the positive comments on CMP planes in this thread.
There use to be a lot of CMP planes at my airfield - we are located very close to one of the major importers. Now I rarely see any, and they have a very bad reputation.
I bought a CMP 72" Katana. It was a couple of pounds overweight and it flew like it. Sure it would fly, but it always felt like it wanted to snap if I pushed it at all. And forget about 3D. Putting the plane together was also a pain, and I did replace almost all the hardware, which added about $50 to the purchase cost. No more CMP for me, no matter how inexpensive they are.
Malcolm