I got tired of the Chinese jets: over weight, under engineered, landing gear mounts that don't hold, gear that doesn't fit right and glue everywhere but where it's needed. They do look pretty but I only got 5 T/O's and 3 landings out of 2 SM Hawks. I have an unpainted Xtreme Jets L-39 that I'm reluntant to start because of all the stuff that has to be fixed. After one look my son refused the airplane for the same reason.

So in spite of being really tired of building, I went back and designed & built a nice foam, glass & wood jet that flies nicely. Cost less than $125 and the paint was about a 3rd of that. Two weeks to sketch it out and 12 weeks to build versus the 10 weeks it took to get that first Hawk ready. 150 flights so far. A few small issues so far but easily addressed in the next one.

I can do a lot of scratch building for what the ARF's cost.