At our flying field latly i notice something. When people crash and when there are ARFS when you look in side at all of the damage you dont see that much support in the body. When i look at one last week there is hardly no support in it. I think one of them is a U-Can-Do 46. All of them flies wonderful but built badly.
What do you think. I know all ARFS arnt like this.

Hello again man...I think all ARFS are pretty good...Put into consideration that they are MASS Produced (atleast most of them)...Merry XMAS and a Happy New Year!!!

Dan

What your noticing is what is not needed on most models. If built right you can do away with the excess. All my arfs are awesome

Two main things you fix when you buy a new Arf. The first is the firewall. Always add some fiberglass cloth or milled fiberglass on the corners. its not a time consuming thing but gives it added strength. Same thing on the retract mounting blocks if you have them.
Arfs a great, they save quite a bit of building time but in some ways they are slapped together and need some work.

The UCDs are built that way to be as light as possible so they can do the 3D tricks. Performance comes at a cost.

Worst thing about ARF's is there are SO many of them
and there is SO little time

People used to complain that ARF's were to heavy. Manufacturers listened and are making lighter planes but you either get a light plane or a beefy plane, you don't get both, especially in a 3D aerobat. They are built to fly, not to crash.

Well said BasinBum!!

Actually, I think what you see is new technogoly. My 31% Aeroworks Edge (for the most part) was the same design as my 29% Edge kit from a few years ago. Best way I know to say it is this--"Most of todays planes are designed to fly well--not crash well"

sounds like you should be looking at a rubber plane, I have never had a Arf fly apart in the air is the light on yet[X(]

i love em

[:-]Actually the only plane that I had brake in the air was a 40Beaver, had a ST61 in it and in a power-dive just when I went to pull out I lost 1\2 a wing[:@] Looked cool though left a 1" dent in the hard-top a motor in small pieces managed to save the radio gear should have incorporated folding wing

Check out www.vectorflight.com they are built very very well. And laser cut parts too! And believe it or not, they are not from over seas!

As said in another thread on the same subject.... do the homework during shopping & research online R/C forums and then fine tune your ARF during assembly. I bought the Phoenix Hobby Suhkoi SU-31 from Tower & its one of the best ARF's I've put together.