Matt,

As far as I can tell, there has been one FEJ F-18 that has flown outside the of the factory in China. Lots of guys seem to be building them, but I have seen NO reports other than the one on the FEJ thread, of them being flown. That one had a hard landing and took the gear completely out of it. Not surprising given the inadequate way the gear plates are installed in that aircraft.

BTW, there is an FEJ F-15 for sale here on RCU and the seller is advertising that he has done the same things to his that I had to do to mine to get it to be reliable - i.e., replace the entire nose gear unit, replace the air cylinders, and replace the wheels and brakes with Tam units. I guess I wasn't so crazy after all...

In addition, Rachael has a real point. I don't think its responsible for FEj to be pumping out new jets when they haven't even delivered on many long outstanding orders for others - much less having them being successfully FLOWN by customers. Unfortunately, it appears as if the FEJ paradigm is to simply pump out as many jets as possible without regard to whether or not they can deliver them in a timely manner or that they actually work...

Bob