Re: Good First Kit?


"PRose" <momma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.10.18.07.40.04.53821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:01:25 -0400, Ed Cregger wrote:
>
>
>> "PRose" <momma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2005.10.18.05.43.37.678878@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:34:15 -0500, Ed Paasch wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I also thought the SIG Kavalier might be a fun plane to fly.
>>>>
>>>> My choice is a bit easier since I now know that the Kavalier has been
>>>> discontinued. I think the Four Star would be a lot like the Tiger 2,
>>>> but the Mid Star would be a little bit different and it would be
>>>> something you
>>>> don't see too often.
>>>
>>> Where did you hear about the Kavalier being discontinued?? I hope it
>>> hasn't, and I still see it on Sig's web site (http://www.sigmfg.com).
>>>
>>> PRose
>>
>>
>> Things are changing rapidly in the hobby industry. If there is something
>> of older design that you want, you had better snatch one up while you
>> can.
>>
>> I heard (read) that Enya four-strokes will no longer be imported into
>> the US by their traditional importer. I then began a web search for Enya
>> four-strokes that I intended to buy and rebuy. I found a 53-4C, a fine
>> engine, at Sheldon's Hobby and ordered it. I still want to buy a NIB
>> 80-4C and the small block 120-4C, not the 120R. Nothing wrong with the
>> latter, by the way, but I already have one.
>>
>> Ed Cregger
>
> There aren't anymore new kits any more, are there (40-60 sized)?
>
> I'm just getting back into the hobby -- seems like just in time to see it
> all disappear. I've just finished buying the kits I planned on building
> this winter and now it looks like I've got to get every kit I'll be
> interested in building ever, and if RCM plans goes TU, I'll have to buy
> every plan for every plane I plan on scratch-building.
>
>
> Also, the club I'll be joining is in the process of losing their flying
> field.
>
> Argh!
>
> PRose


With the design software that is available today, the real builder will be
hard pressed to find a reason to buy a kit soon. Sharing files via the
internet, utilizing local print shops to reproduce plans to the appropriate
scale, etc., will eliminate much of the need to purchase kits, except for
reasons of nostalgia. How long will it be until Tower offers us a parts
cutting device similar to a printer, but with a laser cutter instead? We
will probably inherit such a device that was generated for a much larger
hobby base than our own. I wouldn't complain about its origins, as long as
the price and quality was right.

The current trend in ARF and RTF won't last all that long. No, I don't think
they will disappear completely, but I do suspect that their popularity will
diminish greatly over time. I've been wrong before. But I don't think that I
am wrong about this.

There will always be a diehard core of builders. Whether they will exist in
sufficient quantities to warrant keeping flying fields is another matter. We
shall see.

Ed Cregger


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