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My wife and I say that about Costco all the time. If you see something you like buy it then, because next week that item may be gone.
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I wonder how many ASH-31s have been sold? Very unfortunate but this is the state of Chinese manufacturing. Simply unreliable. The H-Model ASH-31 I bought almost 12 years ago is still being sold.
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If you’re still looking for a reasonably priced 31, take a look at www.flight-composites.com
At 2,900euro and a full 1/3 scale, it looks very interesting. You have to add a few accessories and shipping but figure in the exchange rate and 19% reduction for tax and it’s in the ball park of the HH offering. Forgot to mention it’s full carbon? |
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There has been a lot of anger here on this thread of late due, in my perspective, to some people acting indignant and as self appointed opinion police . I was given a bad mark by moderators for what was termed invoking a personal attack or trolling. Big deal, but the infraction was due to a pointed and aggressive series of personal attacks against me to which i responded, previous posts were conveniently deleted. I'm a pretty mature individual, but do have my faults as we all do, and for being human, I apologize. That is more than we will get from the other party.
Going forward, what we will see in the future will be highly colored by not only market trends, but the latest and continuing FAA crackdown on remotely controlled vehicles. There have already been some apparent cutbacks on plans for expensive large aircraft, and for all we know this too may have factored into Horizons thinking. The real limits will come from the manufacturer distributors who will not be willing to risk investment in future development as the FAA enforcement looms in the coming years. Sources of supply will dry up and or evolve before any FAA regulations threaten our existence. Already on international hobby resource web pages there is a catagory for Radios listing FAA certified vs EU certified. At this point in time it has no meaning, ( other than slight differences in EU policy)but as time rolls on, range limits, altitude limits, continued geo fencing may be built in to equipment bound for the US. Yes pure speculation. just food for thought. |
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Due to production issues the plane is no longer available. Sucks too because it was a nice plane when flown scale. There are some ASW 20's floating around here and there. |
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I see what you did there Len! Hope everyone in your neck of the woods is well. |
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Look at that.....we agree! The ASH was a great idea but the China factory either thru incompetence or by design failed to make the spar assembly structurally adequate.......the shear webbing was not tall enough to reach the top skin which caused the wing to come apart under heavy flight loads. The shear webbing was also inadequate in design in that it didn’t taper in size from root to tip.....at the end of the main joiner is a huge stress riser that coupled with inadequate glue and web height resulted in the destruction of the one pictured. These problem are the fault of the factory that made the airframe and not Horizon Hobby. They tested the prototypes to the extreme and they held up.....one would assume that those had more glue joining the webbing to the upper skin.....which falls back to the person that assembled the wings. Cheap labor has a price.
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