A few years back I had considerable fun with a plane known as the E3D.
The history of the E3D is that it was designed by Gary Wright of Melbourne, Florida and kits were available around the year 2001.
So many kits were sold and so many flyers were liking this model with it's massively thick wing and relatively light weight that Gary decided to remortage the house, and go to china and have an ARF produced. He actually had around 1000 arf's produced..!
The ARF's sold well initially and then sales tapered off, but now, several years later, it appears that E3D kits and arf's are not to be had.
I got looking for another E3D a few months ago after flying one on the RealFlight simulator. Much to my surprise, while roaming some old threads on RCGroups, I heard from Gary Wright himself, who suggested to me that I check out the Eflite ERATIX.
I could hardly believe what I was seeing....the Eratix is a 96% copy of Gary's E3D...! Nothing is sacred in this hobby I guess!
So I ordered up the Eratix and three months later I'm finally putting it together. So far I'm pleased with the contents of the big box as the quality of the product appears very good.
Here are two pictures that show the resemblence between the E3D and the newer ERATIX.
Bill