The Telos first emerged in the late 80’s early 90’s and was the creation of a very talented RC aircraft designer named Richard Jarel. The name under which the Telos was produced was Jarel Aircraft Design (J.A.D.E.). Richard Jarel made a lucrative living making crazy stuff for movies and commercials; Hollywood types, and so Richard didn’t always have the time in his schedule to make the model kits, and so this made getting a Telos Kit tough. When Richard first created the Telos he lived and operated out of a garage in Culver City (which is near by where I live), at some point he moved to Medford, Oregon (which isn’t so near by). Any way I had been persueing one of these “unobtainium” Telos kits, I managed to get myself onto a waiting list with Richard, when all of a sudden Richard up and decided that for “Health Reasons” Richard was no longer going to be producing Fiberglass Carbon Fiber Resin Composite kits, and that if anyone was interested they could buy the rights and molds and templates and the years of R&D and all of the intellectual property and advertising materials for the Telos, and another plane that I hadn’t even heard of called the Crossbow.