Well Harry, as you know our weather has been horrible around here. I have mostly been spending my time on this dag gone computer, and tinkering with the plane. This morning when I got up, I looked outside and even though it was misting, there was little to no wind blowing. Knowing UK weather, I decided to at least head down to the field and hope for a break in the drizzle. So I kissed my wife and daighter goodbye, (my daughter wanted absolutely nothing to do with sitting in the car watching it rain) loaded up and off I went.

After sitting around for about a half hour, a break came and out I went. Fired up the engine and took it off. Things were going ok, and I was playing with trimming her out. I started to make a bank to circuit around the field, and realized that she was not responding to my aileron input! So I added more and more in and all of a sudden, bang hard right bank .. like instantly over 90 degrees. I tried to level the wings out and nothing happened and then upside down and nose first into the ground it went. Luckly it was into a wheat field, so the damage was not catestrophic, but I ripped the nose off of her, and there was nothing but fuel line and throttle linkage holding it together. Boy things sure happen fast when it starts going wrong!

On inspection I think I found out what happend. I have a high winged trainer, with the aileron servo located dead center on the bottom of the wing. I use an extension cable to reach my receiver, and the extension cable and connector had gotten tangled up in the throttle and rudder servos and the connector was partially disconnected. So I don't know if the connection got pulled loose when it got tangled up, or if I didn't have it seated all the way. Possibly a little of both ....

Oh well, it is back to work in the garage for me.

Bo