ggraham500 is totally right. "most of the Chinese" ARFs are not the best made planes; however, I've had a couple of them & they fly great! The instructions suck !! Always, always go through all glue joints you can see & "reglue" or "reinforce". Most of the hardware for them are not of the "quality" needed for extreme flying that some guys do. For the everyday flier like myself, I have found the hardware to be suffeceint. (spelling) for my type of flying. In short, I think we get what we pay for !!!!