Byrdman
Well-known member
I am all for this idea except rule 4 (2.0) Posting the plans to the general public is just as bad as Banggood reverse engineering and selling them. This looks to me like you are intentionally stirring the pot over plans OR you are trying to buddy #$!% FT out of being able to produce a product and get some return on that investment.
Regardless of intention this is really bad form to do something like that.
My intention was to get the scratch builders in this forum to come up with their own versions and have a little fun with it to actually take the pressure off FT plans release issues some have here by making a high wing trainer by the community that could be shared with everyone.
I have not been here long, but been in and out of the hobby for years, so maybe my post missed the intended mark. So, let me make everything perfectly clear:
I love what FT has done with this hobby and in the past 3 months, I have bought 3 SPK's, 5 Lemon Rx's, a few esc's, and a few other odds and ends. I have also built 7 scratch builts from their plans and plan to buy a few more SBK's of the ones I like to fly the best once my scratch builts are beat up more. When I run out of my stockpile of turnigy motors I have had for years, I plan to buy motors from them as well. I like to support businesses I like and have the financial means to do so.
I have no intentions of going into competition with FT using their designs, doing SM or YT productions or anything other than building and flying. This is purely a hobby for me and with my regular job, I really dont have the time even if it wanted to. I actually find it amazing and respect that they can make a living with foamboard airplanes and doing this work when so many others have gone out of business over the years trying to do the same thing.
I think my post was misinterpreted by the longtime members such as yourself to protect FT, and probably my fault for the way it was titled so I get that and own it and will change it. But let's be honest about this as well. Almost all of FT's SBK's are their copies of designs that have been out for many years before they came around, and a high wing trainer like their new Tutor is a mash up of other well known high wing trainer designs. It even says so in the description.