Tommy,

Couldn't wait for calm, warm weather. Got to the field over lunch, warmed the engine up but did notice that I have to hold up elevator for taxing. It did want to nose over if it hit a bump at taxi speed. Wind was gusting about 45 degrees across the run way about 20-30 mph at times.

My adrenalin was pumping on low-rate take off. Plane immediately turned to the left - trimmed the ailerons and bumped the elevator two clicks up. Flew great. Put it on hi rates for a few seconds, pulled it up then hard down elevator, right aileron, left rudder and it became a blur chasing it's _ss inside out! All this on about a quarter throttle. Then tried a knife edge into the wind with only a tiny bit of rudder and it still wanted to climb. By then my nerves were about shot and I made a couple of slow fly bys checking for stability and landed like a feather. Very stable.

After landing I checked all the linkages and noticed that both aileron servos were loose on the back end. I'll pull them out tonight and beef up the mounting plate. Sure wouldn't want to loose one or both. Did yours stay tight? Everything else went fine.

Can't wait for a nice day to really try some stuff with it.

Bruce