Rich is absolutely right about all this! I travel to Europe fairly often and have found what he said to be true most of the time. You can buy almost anything here at home for a lot less than it would actually cost you to buy it over there! AND you are covered by shipping insurance, etc. With vendors such as Tom Copp (see F3X.com), and John Derstine (Sailplanes Unlimited for your scale stuff), why you would want to go through the nightmare of getting something from Europe on your own beats me! And just try getting all your V.A.T. back! Keith M Hawaii RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]