If Nitroplanes can design it to look like that, why can't they design it to look like this? It's like they used the "rough sketch version". Is this a slill level here or what? If you need to cut a piece of wood 12' and you cut it 11 3/4", your an idiot.

The whole ARF mentality among the mfg's is to cut the piece 11-3/4, tell everybody it's really 12, and after 47 pieces, the 1/4's accumulate and they get a freebie. We get stuck with under engineered and overpriced stuff that they didn't consider making spare parts for.

Are both models coming with fiberglassed fuses?

Maybe they think if it dosen't really look like a 310 they won't have to pay royalties....

Yes, and the wings are pre slotted for Rhoid Air retracts. Rhoid Air - a guaranteed PITA!! <G>


Ed Cregger

Never could understand why they go through the trouble of designing and manufacturing scale models that are NOT SCALE. They should leave "Cessna 310" out of the name and just call it a "fun-twin" or something else just as dumb as the model looks.

Yak

Cyclic and the others youre totally correct but RC has almost gone full circle.most folks now
shop price. scale looks comes second.The TF 310 is a bit pricy AND TO BOOT RETRACTS needs to be brought seperate thats where they really get you.What they shouldve done was packaged it together for one total price not take the customer and have them buy twice

That may be true but why would it cost any more to make the outline accurate?

No offense intended by this, but you have seen literal chinese to english language translations, maybe the visual translations work the same way.... At least it looks like an airplane (?)

I believe there to be many factories in China pumping ARFs out now. I also believe some are better than others, just as in domestic companies. The company responsible for this 310 must be one of these, 'that is close enough for the money' companies, with less skilled engineers and support staff. Although, from the review I read by Dick Pettit, it flys well, it would never see my hanger. I think it looks more like a caricature of a 310, than the real thing, but I'm not laughing. Sorry Nitro, this one is joke at any price, to me. You might as well have made it a big profile plane.

I always said it takes just as much time and energy to build an ugly airplane as it does to build a pretty one. On the flip side, it's been my experience that ugly airplanes never crash.

Yak