Just to clear up some confusion, and a lot of
misinformation on the internet...CMP is not Willhobby, or FlyModel, or any other company. CMP is thier own company, and they have been around for while.
I have built a few of their planes, and found the quality to be quite
exceptional, they are high-end stuff, and from a scale point of view, nobody
else comes close.
The P-40, from a scale aspect, blows away the Hangar 9 and everybody else's
P-40. The paint job is dead flat and perfect, and there are a ton of
factory-installed water transfer decals, a beautiful glass belly tank, strut
covers, prepainted canopy frame, lots of nice stuff. All the hardware is
exceptional, too, with a fiberglass pushrod for the elevator, and a pull-pull
system for the rudder.
You need to be careful flying it, though. It has no washout, it's not light,
and it will tip stall if you pull too hard or get too slow. The big problem,
though, is that the CG in the manual is actually for the much larger 71" one,
and will leave you very tailheavy if you don't correct it to about 85mm from the
LE. It's really, really important.
If you fly off grass, you will have really hard time finding rotating retracts
that will hold up. Seriously consider fixed gear like I used.
I flew mine with a Saito 62, fit perfectly and was plenty of power.
Let's here some other comments, this is a beautiful plane..