Captain - Actually I'm a terrible pilot. Many years of flying R/C and a 12 y/o kid can fly my socks off. My main interest is in design and building. One guy thinks I fly scale lead-sleds and you think I'm a 3D pilot. Boy would the first guy be offended to think I'm one of him. I just fly whatever I feel like depending on what survived the last time I flew it.

Look, I'm really not trying to be stubborn here, but I am convinced that the definition of I know to be flaperons is correct. As I said previously I have never - not once - before heard of anyone claiming that elevator and aileron is flaperon mixing or that elevator is part of flaperons. Elevator may be mixed in, but with or without the elevator, the flaperons stand alone as their own entity.

I did an extensive web search to find if there is any validity to their claims and did not find anything to suggest that flaperon mixing is anything other than flap and aileron mixing. I posted several links from this search. No evidence to the contrary has been produced. If I'd found evidence that my definition is wrong then I would have posted it. It's more important to me to know the right answer than for me to be right.

If anyone can produce a credible source that shows flaperon is something other than what I have said it is, I would like to see it. Nobody has done that yet. As far as I'm concerned the practical, technical, application, pre-historic and post-modern definitions of flaperon is flap/aileron mixing. An INCORRECT (not by my standards, but by aerospace, "most r/cers", and all web references I found) yet extremely obscure definition pulled out of thin air by a small sampling of fliers seems to include elevator as part of flaperon mixing.

Trust me, this isn't personal. It's just not compelling me to see things differently. Show me a source. Show me anything that says elevator is a fundamental element of flaperons (typos in Futaba manuals don't count).

OK, I'm off to do something productive or educational - hopefully both.