Hi Jim:

I currently own a HotSpot with over 200 flights on it and my previous Spot has 248 flights on it before it buried itself in the desert a couple of years ago.....

The original design of the HS is for single servo elevon setup(single 4721, 8411, 8611)......i.e. right and left control surfaces function as both aileron and elevator.....

The way that the plane is designed precludes proper operation with inboard elevators and outboard ailerons.....it's been tried and found to provide inadequate elevator control at low airspeeds......it takes a full length elevon surface to provide enough pitch up for proper rotation and flaring.....

The only reason one would saw the elevon in half and servo them separately is to provide redundancy......

You have spotted the problem with the servo orientation.....easiest way to fix would be to use a MatchBox, but allot of guys, including BV suggests not using Matchbox on aileron or elevator, as any malfunction will dump the plane, as there have been failures reported in both the Giant Scale and Jet community.....rare, but they do happen.....

The best option IMO would be to pick up a Reversed Servo for each side....that is what BV uses in several of his designs where he wants the servos to be mirror-imaged in the wings to keep the wing cutouts symmetrical, such as on the flaps on my composite Bandit.....a second option would be to pick up a reversing Y-connector, but that also introduces another circuit in the line, another point of failure.......

Tom