I'm just wondering since you have added the new Spectre's to your line up [and discontinued the Monarchs and Wizards] will you be getting rid of the Chrysalis HLG and the Chrysalis 2M any time soon?"

Please don't!

From : Don Stackhouse

I presume your concern is based on our discontinuing of the Monarchs and Wizards. We did that because the Spectres outperform those models at all speeds, the tooling (particularly the fuselage molds AND the plugs they were made from) for the Monarchs and Wizards was worn out, the Monarchs and Wizards had become very labor intensive to make (so if we continued producing them we would have to price them HIGHER than the Spectre series), and the demand for the Monarchs and Wizards since we introduced the Spectres simply wasn't high enough to justify going through all the necessary trouble to replace the tooling and keep them in production.

Yes, a number of folks have asked us why we don't drop the price on the Monarchs and supposedly get enough extra sales to keep them in the lineup. In business management terms, that would fall under the category of "selling at a loss and trying to make up for it in volume", a guaranteed way to quickly go bankrupt. Now if those folks would be willing to spend $50 or more EXTRA to get a Monarch instead of a Spectre, it might work, but in that case I would strongly recommend to those folks that they seek some professional counselling. The Spectres are better airplanes.

The Chrysalis situation is TOTALLY different.

No need to worry, the Chrysali do not compete with the Spectres. They're in a completely different market niche. The Chrysalis series has NEVER been a competitor performance wise vs. our composite ships (except maybe at the very beginning with the original Chrysalis HLG, whose ability to compete very favorably against our old wood-winged Monarch 'C' is what prompted us to develop the Monarch 'D'). The Chrysali are relatively low-cost, simple wooden sport airplanes for folks who like the look of built-up wood, or who want to have fun on a budget. The Spectres are no-holds-barred contest airplanes. There's plenty of room in the world for both, and in fact many folks who start out with a Chrysalis later go on to get a Spectre.

As long as the various Chrysali continue to sell well enough to justify the effort, we will continue to sell them.

Don Stackhouse
DJ Aerotech