I agree with a lot of what has been said. Unless you can fly at an airport, have plenty of storage space, and a large vehicle or trailer then bigger is not necessarily better. My club has a 380 ft. paved runway and we fly KingCats, Flashs, and Gripens there. We couldn't fly anything larger or that lands long off that field. So I won't invest in a large plane that requires me to drive out of town to a jet meet in order to fly it. My situatiion is not unique. I have read quite a few threads from guys asking what jets they can fly off short runways or smaller fields.

I like the F-18 and large planes are very impressive. I'm sure that if the price is right they will sell a bunch of then. However, I believe that they could sell a lot more F-18's if they came out a smaller one. A friend of mine has a Skymaster F-18. He has over $8000 invested and one flight on it in a year. Even if FEJ charged $1000 less for theirs you are still looking at a $7000 investment. For $8000 he could put two of their F-16's in the air.

It gets down to their marketing strategy. Obviously they are attacking and undercutting the competetion. I just think they would make more money if they came out with something desireable, that no one else has, at a reasonasble price.

Joe