Soaring Jet
06-23-2015 | 02:09 PM
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I have built a few FEJ jets and I will say even with the airX material there are design problems with your molds and the way you tend to cut sooooooooooo many holes in the soft ply used for bulkheads. Your complex gear like the f-16 and others needs to be brought into a tighter tolerance. This will prevent normal wear from making the gear start to hang. Find some experienced jet builders, listen to their recommendations, get some kits built and stress test then release your product. Only good service and quality jets will help your company at this point.
06-25-2015 | 02:01 AM
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Hello!
Thank you for your sincere feedback. The FEJ has their own structure building and color painting, and they use honeycomb.
What makes us different is we use Airex material and our jet is tested with new bulkhead structure. What makes the same is only the mold.
If you have any questions, please contact us freely.
Sincerely yours
Tony
Thank you for your sincere feedback. The FEJ has their own structure building and color painting, and they use honeycomb.
What makes us different is we use Airex material and our jet is tested with new bulkhead structure. What makes the same is only the mold.
If you have any questions, please contact us freely.
Sincerely yours
Tony
So, to sum up, if I'm reading this right, this is a company that was a manufacturer for other companies selling the planes under the FEJ brand. Since the apparent demise of FEJ, this company is trying to step out on their own as a direct-source manufacturer/seller to keep business going. After all, there's a ton of tooling, etc. invested in the stuff.
A very, very tough road to go down with this crowd given the bad taste left by FEJ. It is "guilt by association" to be sure. We need good manufacturers and options, but the only way to break back into the market is to get some kits in peoples hands and have them fly repeatedly and prove their value. That, my friend is going to be very hard to do. There have been FEJ kits owned by some that were subsequently given to others due to the distrust in those FEJ planes.
I believe it's fair to ask:
How are these planes different from the ones that had such bad construction from FEJ? The website/pictures look good...
A very, very tough road to go down with this crowd given the bad taste left by FEJ. It is "guilt by association" to be sure. We need good manufacturers and options, but the only way to break back into the market is to get some kits in peoples hands and have them fly repeatedly and prove their value. That, my friend is going to be very hard to do. There have been FEJ kits owned by some that were subsequently given to others due to the distrust in those FEJ planes.
I believe it's fair to ask:
How are these planes different from the ones that had such bad construction from FEJ? The website/pictures look good...
11-02-2016 | 03:39 PM
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From: BloemfonteinFree State, SOUTH AFRICA
Tony
Did buy one of your Hawk aircraft earlier this year. Was crashed on a large airshow because of a failure of canopy latches broke lose from the fuse sides. a Hawk canopy that opens to the side in the air is a sure scrap crash. Bad workmanship of Soaring RC. It cost me the aircraft and a lot of other damage. When I asked for help. Fabian assured me the company's full support. After a few mails I was offered a white clean kit to buy for more that the full kit cost me. Shipping was also for my account. That was not the type of support I would expect for a fault by a company.
Matt. What was the cause of your crash?
It is a pity that some manufacturing companies does not back up their products and workmanship. Some really does.
Pierre
Did buy one of your Hawk aircraft earlier this year. Was crashed on a large airshow because of a failure of canopy latches broke lose from the fuse sides. a Hawk canopy that opens to the side in the air is a sure scrap crash. Bad workmanship of Soaring RC. It cost me the aircraft and a lot of other damage. When I asked for help. Fabian assured me the company's full support. After a few mails I was offered a white clean kit to buy for more that the full kit cost me. Shipping was also for my account. That was not the type of support I would expect for a fault by a company.
Matt. What was the cause of your crash?
It is a pity that some manufacturing companies does not back up their products and workmanship. Some really does.
Pierre
