If you like the slick shiny magazines that have all the ads, and the models are tested by writers who never met a model airplane that they did not like, then why not save the money, and order the latest Horizon, or Tower Hobbies catalog. That is about all that you are getting anyway. If you want the unvarnished truth (with one notable exception) then get a subscription to R/C Report. You will (for the most part) get the plain truth about a model. There is one reviewer who has fallen in love with the ARF's and even when he does post the problems of the model, he kind of glosses over the issue, and in the end, it is a good plane. I know that It's hard to bite the hand etc....But that's why you wind up with ARF planes that have marginal glue joints, and crappy covering. If there were more outlets who would write the truth, you might see some of the problems corrected.

I guess, if you want to know what's really going on in the R/C world, sites such as this one is the place to go. Bear in mind that normally people who make negative posts here on RCU seem to have an axe to grind. There are some sacred cows here too, and if you speak of them in anything but a positive manner, you will be called to task by the others who think that they are the greatest. You pays your money, and you takes your choice.

Bill, AMA 4720
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