I had been planning on getting an Oriental kit and the thought of an ARF never crossed my mind. I was telling one of our members about my plans to build it and he said ,"You want an Oriental?, Look over there and get one." There was one in a big box and I realized it was an ARF. He is a Brodak dealer so had all kinds of stuff in the package. He gave it to me for his cost and now I'm about to start buil... putting it together. I'm glad too because lately building, cutting and sanding has been flaring up my arthritic shoulder, the one on my flying arm, so badly I can hardly walk straight, and can never sleep. Notice the time stamp on this post, 3AM. My prematurely ageing body might prevent me from doing many more major builds, I'm painfully finishing one now, so I might turn into an ARFie, one of those I used to make light fun of. I do plan to build a few 1/2As this Fall, it'll still hurt but not quite so demanding as the larger planes.
Rusty