I flew out at the RAMS field [link=http://www.ramsrc.com](RAMS Website)[/link] for the second time last night. I took my trainer with me as I was going to put my 5 year old son on the buddy box for the first time. They have more open space than Hobby Park, where you takeoff, climb, and then fly over the trees the whole time. I put the plane and transmitter on the fast field charger and wait for someone to show up with a key to the shed so I could borrow their buddy cord. Everything was charged up so I decided to fly it myself while I put my Ultra Stick 40 on charge.

Right after takeoff, the plane turns to the left. I put full right aileron in and it was almost flying straight. I trimmed the ailerons all the way to the right and let the stick return to center and it still would turn to the left. The guy standing beside me heard me say "What the h*** is going on?" He told me to gain altitude while he brought his plane in. About that time I remembered that I had a rudder to use! I gained altitude, then he took the transmitter from me and landed it as pretty as you can please. On the ground we realized that the ailerons hardly moved at all. I thought I just had the wrong model set in my 6TXA. But when I removed the wing, I found that the wood had split that the servo attaches to. It was not where the wood pieces were originally glued to the wing, it was a little past that on the little wood pieces.

My son was upset because he still has not gotten on the buddy box. But I told him that it was better that we had a plane to take home that would only take a few minutes to fix rather than have a box of balsa pieces because of a crash. He was at the field the first time I crashed (my original trainer that got caught by the trees at Hobby Park. Those trees have balsa magnets in them!) and saw how upset I got. That crash upset him also. So he understood why I was waiting to fix the plane.

I think that I will wait for a nice Sunday afternoon to put him on the buddy box.