Bikerbc, let me ask you the same question I asked Straitnickel. In your experience with this plane, did you find the elevator and rudder pushrods to be hard very hard to slide within the hard tubes that run the span of the fuselage? The rods don't slide freely, and it takes a bit of effort; just too much bending the way they were factory-installed. Im concerned how this will effect servo performance. Thanks in advance for your feed back.