One of my peeves along side 'building' ARF's is todays limited experienced authors is "testing" products. Many authors now have been in the hobby less than five years so know only out of the box ARF's and ready to run engines, radios, etc. For example, slap a new $500.00 engine on the test stand, add prop, fuel and spark. Say "wow" it starts on the third flip, jazz the throttle a few times, tach the RPM then summarize the obvious. That's a 'test'? Only if you think it makes you look smart.

I miss the genuine tests conducted by Clarence Lee, Peter Chin and the like.

I'm not a 'scratch' builder, do build 'kits' and 'assemble' ARFs.