RE: Retract advice...
My buddy has a Prophecy and doesn't like to remove the belly pan every flight so he has the retract wires coming out of the fuse with a regular clevis and fuel tube clamp. He puts the wing on with the wire going through the retract hole in the root rib. Uses a hemostat to connect the clevis to the retract, slide the fuel tubing forward and whalla, retracts hooked up.
Cleaning up is the reverse and actually only takes a couple of seconds.
For me, I have used the spring loaded ball links on the servo wheel(I've always had a removable canopy) made by Sullivan. These go on very easily and have never had one pop off.
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