Well, I guess all this makes sense. I just did the calcs, and if I were to spend 30 hours building a plane from scratch it would cost $964. Not to mention the cost of union benefits such as healthcare(reference to GM). I guess we better leave it up to the Chinese. I only wish they could build them as nice as I would. My first plane I built from a kit when I was 13 and it is 10x more durable than all the chinese ARF's I've seen.

Composite ARF's are beautiful planes, but now that I know thay are made in china and are way less labor intensive than wood planes I am a loss as to why they are so g-d expensive.