The cradle is held in place in the truck bed by four lashings on each of the four corners of the cradle, the lashings are connected to the tie down points in the truck bed. The cradle also has forty pounds of weight attached to it for extra security (flat cinder blocks).

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The plane is held in the cradle by two lengths of ½” hardwood dowels covered with ¼” thick foam. Each dowel is designed to fit into a clevis at each end of the cradle. The two dowels straddle the top of wing and thisis what actually keeps the plane held in the cradle. The cradle is padded and is designed to allow the plane a slight amount of wing roll movement; ½” up and ½” down. The Velcro straps seen in the photos keep the two dowels from popping out of the clevises during wing roll movement.

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Stress on the flight control surfaces is not a concern due to no power being applied to the flight controlservos during transport; therefore the flight control surfaces are free to move up or down if subjected to air turbulence over their surfaces. Flight control surfaces are subjected to much more stress during actual flying due to the servo’s deflecting the flight controls in the air stream.

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