Whats the deal with lanier, people dont like them too much. Is a funfly 40 a piece o crap or what? 50 bucks is kinda cheap Im suspicious....

I did the FunFly 40, the Comet and the Dart. Bought 'em all because the pictures looked pretty and the prices were cheap, and I'm a sucker for a lowball pitch. They are not good products. I got them all to fly, but it wasn't easy. Lots of major non-fitting parts problems, lots of tear apart and rebuild problems. Once I got them together, they flew OK to good, if adequately powered.

The Comet flew OK with an HB61 and servos in the tail. I still have it but never fly it, and it looks too shoddy to take to the auction. I had to Rube Goldberg the nosewheel steering.

The FF40 flew great with a TTPro36 w/ultrathrust muffler. I still have the wreckage of the FF40 because I'd like to build another out of balsa one of these days (but probably never will).

The Dart was very prone to tip-stalls. Now in the junk pile, waiting to be stripped of usable components.

After the first hard landing or abuse of any kind, the plastic fuse cracks and splits and takes on the stiffness of cooked spaghetti. Any of these planes I could have built faster and better from balsa. The ARF factor was a joke, because so much of the model had to be taken apart and re-worked.

I still buy cheap stuff, and I still buy Lanier stuff, but no more Lanier cheap stuff.

Hey thanks for the heads up. Think Im going to go with a champion 45s (thunderkitty) or a chief funfly 40. Funflys seem kinda cool. Im a bit hesitant about the thick wing choard. Wind penitration and friction and all.

While I have not seen either the Chief Fun Fly or the Champion 45, my take of the photos of them is that they are very different in their flight characteristics. The Chief would be closer to my Lanier 40 Fun Fly, but the Champion looks like it would be more what I like to fly these days. I like smooth and stable, big figures in the sky. The Chief would be more for 3D style flying, tight loops, the kind of stuff that gets me in trouble. As to the product quality for either, I have no basis for any opinion. If I have only saved you from wasting your time on the Lanier FF40, I've done my good turn for the day.

Yea Im thinking now a ultra stick with a saito four stroke on it or the shoulder wing cham 45s with a .40 size two stroke. I kinda like the thinner wing on the champion plus its tapered. That should make it trake like its on rails. I think the wing chord on the ultra stick is two or three inc. thick. Its not as efficient and on windy days you might get blown around a bit. I kinda like the idea of the four stroke though.. hummm

The ultrastick with 4-stroke is many peoples' all-time favorite, so if you try it and don't like it, there'll be lots of bidders if you put it up for auction.