My buddy Shane had the CA hinges fail two seperate times on his GP Pitts. The first time it was all of the hinges on the top left aileron. He replaced them with Pin hinges. The second time it was the bottom right aileron. Needless to say, he replaced all of the CA's with pins. No need in carelessly losing a beautiful plane like that along with a G-62. After two incidents like that, I'd have to change them out too. It's funny because I know of a lot of guys flying 1/4 scale and larger planes with CA's in them and they swear by them. It really sounds like a batch of bad hinges, or the ones that were sent with that particular model simply aren't strong enough.

Question..... Do they make a larger, thicker, more duarable CA hinge, or is one CA hinge the same as all others? Surely for larger scale planes you would be provided with a larger sized hinge. I mean think about it, would you put the same hinge that comes with a Lancair in a 35% Edge? I really don't know, that's why I'm asking.