Here are a few updates for my old uproars. Mostly to share results of the servo choices I made back in the early days of these airplanes. Albeit, it is still useless reference material since most of the servo’s are no longer available.

In Sept of 2025, I replaced the old Hextronic MG16 aileron servos with NIB BbTurnigy 380MG. on the Purple Uproar.
The MG16’s had been jittery at center for a while and the top housing for these servos had hairline fracture cracks in them.
The MG16’s were installed on the Purple Uproar around June of 2011. So, they lasted, give or take 14 years with +/- 175 flights.
Worth noting, the average flight time, per my flight log is about 10-3/4 minutes per flight. Longest flights recorded are 21+ minutes.
As previously mentioned, all of that work turned out to be for NOT, because, on Oct 12th 2025 I was clowning around in the wind trying for near “0 MPH” ground speed landing and a crosswind gust got under it and I cartwheeled it - broke the tail off. Snapped it right off right behind the extra reinforcements I had added when originally built.The Red Uproar now has 255 flights. After 247 flights on this airplane, the 9 gram Hobby King throttle servo died. This one lasted almost 14 years with around 235 flights. The first throttle servo died pretty quick, but it had been repurposed from an old electric foamy plane.

In previous inspections I had noticed that the original aileron servos BbTurnigy 380MG had excessive play in the bushings and decided it a good idea to change them out while working on the plane. Replaced them, with the two (NIB) servos that I had put in the Purple Uproar right before wrecking it. After pulling one of the servos from the plane, the upper housing literally broke apart on the one end. See picture. Another possible crash averted… Plane has 8 more flights on it since then.


after removing the screws - while lifting it out of the pocket the top housing and mounting flange just simply fell apart.