i just bought my first valk, i had a jetfire when i was a kid, (still a kid i guess, and always will be), anyways i was driving to the store and my younger brother was checking it out, (cause i had just picked it up from the post office, btw it is a 1/55 bandia i got of ebay for $27.99!!! it rocks it is like the won hikaru flew. anyways he was checking it out as i was turning a corner and it slipped out of his and and made imediate contact with the ground, fortuatle it missed the pavement by a few inches and landed in the snow. It survied and rocks.