Brian, I don't know where you're getting your information. The guy making the Photon and the Charm is Victor Stamov from Kiev, a past world champion in Nordic (F1A) free flight. Victor Isaenko makes the Topaz, and is national team member in free flight. He has placed in the top 3 in the world championships. The Graphite, AVA, and Blaster are made by Vladimir Gavrilko, F3J national team member. Most of the Ukrainian planes are made in Kharkov, a city of 2 million and the aircraft industry center of the country. The lead guys do the bulk of the work in producing the planes, like Phil Barnes does here. You can't just get dumb help to put together one of the wings. The people helping them are also skilled modelers, most of them also pilots. Some pictures of Vladimir's production:
http://www.airplane-model.com/tech-molding.html The pay is a result of the economy, lucky for us. JE -- Erickson Architects John R. Erickson, AIA > From: Brian Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:51:29 -0800 > To: "JIM EALY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stuart A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: RCSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [RCSE] "Drela foils" == marketing gimmick now? > > I doubt any of the "Czech worker-bee" are pilots, they are people > that work for very little pay. And most of them probably never saw a > model plane before they walked into the factory. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
