ORIGINAL: abufletcher
ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
There are no pre built sub assemblies, and that is what defines an ARF.
What do you count as a "pre-built sub-assembly?" The BVM 100 kit looks like it has plenty of semi-finished sub-assemblies to me.
http://www.bvmjets.com/Pages/kits/f-100%20site.htm
Just for the record in this discussion/debate/ARF-bashing thread, I'm perfectly happy to see great looking ARF's (or "composites" completely finished at the factory like the FW-190) competing in the ProAm category. More thrills for the audience who make the trip -- and more experience for the pilots. Sound like a win-win situation to me.
ABU,
By a pre-built sub assembly, I am referring to the wing being finished, covered, and/or painted, or wrapped in a plastic bread sack, and ready to be joined to the other wing panel and the aileron/flap servo's installed. You know full well what I am referencing, and I know you well enough to know that you do. The BVM is in no way an ARF. It is a composite model that requries several hundred hours to turn into a comptitive model. There is a big difference between Semi-finished, and finished. If you want to argue semantics, find another sucker, cause I ain't buying in.
Bill, AMA 4720
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