Who Makes Which Arfs?
01-23-2003, 03:13 PM
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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHO MAKES WHOSE ARFS? DOES WORLD MODELS MAKE SIGS' ARFS? WHO MAKES LANIERS, HANGAR 9, GREAT PLANES ETC?
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Very good question.....I have a few ideas, but no facts to back them up.
I too, would like a wee bit of inside info here...
Ant takers bold enough to let it slip?
I too, would like a wee bit of inside info here...
Ant takers bold enough to let it slip?
01-23-2003, 04:07 PM
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I think they all come from one big ARF sweatshop......he he he.....the new workers are the ones that work on VMAR ARF's.....the more experienced sweatshopee's work on the World Models & Sig ARF's.....lol 
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01-23-2003, 04:24 PM
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This is from the K&W website and worth a peek! Quite the "factory" there in the Phillipines!
http://www.kwmairpl.com.ph/company.html
http://www.kwmairpl.com.ph/company.html
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While visiting the AMA IMS show in Pasadena, CA I had the opportunity to talk with the managing director for C.B. Hobby House. They are a Thailand based ARF factory with impressive planes. They make some of Lanier's ARFs, the Cap, Edge, etc. They also make the Wild Hare aerobatic plane.
Their web site is www.cbhobby.com. You will see their line of direct sales products, however, their commercial catalog available at the show did show many well know ARFs in their factory. Quite nice too, I might add.
I had a great talk the manager about Bubba Spivey. I asked him how was it to negotiate with Bubba, all he could do was smile.........broadly!
Dan
Their web site is www.cbhobby.com. You will see their line of direct sales products, however, their commercial catalog available at the show did show many well know ARFs in their factory. Quite nice too, I might add.
I had a great talk the manager about Bubba Spivey. I asked him how was it to negotiate with Bubba, all he could do was smile.........broadly!
Dan
01-24-2003, 02:46 AM
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Damnathius,
I like the third photo of the guy with the chain saw cutting the balsa. He must have been the same guy that cut the wing joiner and firewall on my latest VMAR !!
Seeing the chain saw explains everything !
I'd still like to see what's in the factory glue pot?
I like the third photo of the guy with the chain saw cutting the balsa. He must have been the same guy that cut the wing joiner and firewall on my latest VMAR !!
Seeing the chain saw explains everything !
I'd still like to see what's in the factory glue pot?
01-24-2003, 04:33 AM
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danmilo, now I know who actually makes my LanierRC 1/4 scale Extra 300L. CBhobby's EXTRA 300/S-120 looks just like it, except I like CBhobby's covering scheme a lot better.
I suspect the H9 1/4 sccale Cap 232 is also made in Thailand, judging from the Thai writing on the packing slip pasted on the factory brown outer cardboard box.
I suspect the H9 1/4 sccale Cap 232 is also made in Thailand, judging from the Thai writing on the packing slip pasted on the factory brown outer cardboard box.
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Lanier's 3rd scale Laser 200 is made in China. (It has "Made in China" decals applied in several places) The model is very well made and flies well but it bothers me that I thought it was made somewhere in South Carolina.
The guy making it was probably working under slave labor conditions and the profits going into new technology to improve their ICBMs. As Lenin said, "Capitalists will sell you the rope you hang them with." Enjoy!
The guy making it was probably working under slave labor conditions and the profits going into new technology to improve their ICBMs. As Lenin said, "Capitalists will sell you the rope you hang them with." Enjoy!
