Olivier,

You have done a great job at presenting the areas that need attention to on the FEJ 1/7 F18F, 1/5.5 F16 and the F14, and have done so in a positive and informative mannor. It is this positive and professional process of presentation that helps each modeler improve the longevity and safty of their investment.

I think it also allows ALL manufacturers a glance at how to improve the construction and safty issues associated with turbine jet manufacture.

Andy Andrews took a lot of heat from his experiance, but the end result was we all learned a lot more about how are pipes need to be made, and improvements soon followed. Listen Folks, we all learn and FEJ is learning also. I have flown 3 FEJ Jets, and after the necessary mods were done the Jets do fly very well. FEJ is not for everyone, but they fill a low introductory niche to builders "Who know how to assess what needs to be improved"

FEJ has improved over the last 2 years, and will soon have even more improvements in construction technique. Case in point, my first F18F had the foam sheeting in the wings, and my second had really nice balsa sheeting. The second also had stronger and thicker wood formers in the fuse for added strength for the gear mounts.

We have shown before that pictures sometimes hide the truth, we compared Skymaster F18 wing to FEJ F18 wing. The skymaster wing had virtually NO inside formers VS. the FEJ. But skymaster's wings have performed very well. We could not see the building process, engineering that went into the skymaster wing, yet in comparison it looked weak, in reality it performed very well.

There is always going to be members here who have NO jet experiance, have no jets listed in there profile, have not built or have much understanding of Jets, yet feel perfactly at ease providing there "NEGATIVE" oppinions and comments to bash manufacturers and other members and have the NERVE to HIDE behind thier Avatar. This in itself hurts our Hobby more and more.

Thank you Olivier for all the correspondence you and I have shared, and keep up your excellent work.

Kevin Marks