Vincent,
I had a Tiger 60 I loved a few years back. She always landed hot. So, one day at the field I worked on getting the ailerons configured as flaperons with enough down elevator mixed in that she slowed down, but kept flying straight and level. Loved the way she was finally flying. Then made a few fast passes down the runway. Suddenly I heard some fluttering. I assumed it was an aileron, so I chopped throttle and pulled up to lose airspeed fast. Turns out it was the joint between the two elevator halves had broken. So, when I pulled back, only 1/2 of the elevator pulled back. Did a real quick barrel roll right into the ground!! It was spectacular. Would have been embarrassing had I not been the only one at the field.

Moral of the story is, make sure you check that joint as part of your pre-flights. The replacement I'm building (this is #3 for the .60 size, and one T2), I put a pin through the dowel into each half of the elevator. That should keep that joint from breaking so easily.

Glad your maiden went great! And hope you have many years of enjoying her. She is a great flying bird! Once I got used to her, I used to do a full roll right after takeoff. (And no, that's not how I lost the first two. The T2 was a radio brown-out, I think. T60 #1 was a crash on maiden, then the repair wasn't strong enough and I snapped the tail off at altitude. Was spectacular!!!)

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Tom