I did the FunFly 40, the Comet and the Dart. Bought 'em all because the pictures looked pretty and the prices were cheap, and I'm a sucker for a lowball pitch. They are not good products. I got them all to fly, but it wasn't easy. Lots of major non-fitting parts problems, lots of tear apart and rebuild problems. Once I got them together, they flew OK to good, if adequately powered.

The Comet flew OK with an HB61 and servos in the tail. I still have it but never fly it, and it looks too shoddy to take to the auction. I had to Rube Goldberg the nosewheel steering.

The FF40 flew great with a TTPro36 w/ultrathrust muffler. I still have the wreckage of the FF40 because I'd like to build another out of balsa one of these days (but probably never will).

The Dart was very prone to tip-stalls. Now in the junk pile, waiting to be stripped of usable components.

After the first hard landing or abuse of any kind, the plastic fuse cracks and splits and takes on the stiffness of cooked spaghetti. Any of these planes I could have built faster and better from balsa. The ARF factor was a joke, because so much of the model had to be taken apart and re-worked.

I still buy cheap stuff, and I still buy Lanier stuff, but no more Lanier cheap stuff.