I have read the description in several ARF advertisements "this is our evergreen model", and never could figure out what they mean by that. Is there something lost in translation? (just curious)[&:]

I have been wondering the same thing myself. Perhaps their wings don't fall off in the wintertime.

Tim

So, you think that they actually know what they are talking about and have a logical English translated meaning for such terminology? The kindest interpretation I can put on that is that "something got lost in translation". [sm=72_72.gif] But, heck, what can you expect from someone who sells "nitro" this that or the other? I dunno, either.

If it's the Clipped Wing Cub from WorldModels (if I remember correctly, that's what was in the advertisement of the one I bought from them) then let me blow off some steam about what "evergreen" might mean.

On second thought, I think I'll be calm.

Evergreen seems to be the name of one of the ARF "factories" in China. Apparently it's not the regular World Models ARF factory. Beyond that, I doubt they mistranslated a word. I think they meant to divert blame somewhat.

It's a model of a fullscale aerobatic airplane. It's recommended to use a 46size 2cycle. Mine started breaking down on the first outing. I thought the covering was just reacting to the sun. What was actually happening was that the aft fuselage was built with understrength wood in a structure that needed stronger wood than normal. The top rear of the fuselage was basically 3 sticks. They were "contest balsa" in my airplane. They needed to be at minimum, rock hard balsa. Spruce would have been sensible for at least 2 of the 3 sticks. The light balsa started giving up from just the loads that came when trying to see how the sucker needed to be trimmed. I ironed out the wrinkles. Never gave a thought that the structure was crushing so didn't look inside. You can't actually see the sticks anyway. When I started doing snaps, the balsa hit the fan.

It's amazing how little the ARF factory workers know about wood selection.

I've seen that phrase in a handfull of ARF descriptions (evergreen). I wonder if one company had a bad translation, put it in the ad, then other companies just copied the same phrase not knowing what the heck they were saying.

This is a term used by many electronic (or other) equipment manufactures to describe a product line that remains perennially fresh, interesting, or well liked. Another term for the same concept is "legacy".

Tony M.

My take on the 'evergreen model' is that its a COPY of someone elses kit or arf. Take for instance the CMP hellcat, if you look at NitroModels, they have the CMP version and then there's their "evergreen" model at a lower price.Its a copy with a few things (different colored decals and maybe the canopy is a little different and maybe thinner glasswork on the fuse). To me its a knockoff version of the original. My .02 cents worth
John

Here is my opinion of all this china model stuff. Pay the extra 10 to 20 bucks and get yourself a good quality named plane. Bye