[:@][:@]Well, this was not how I wanted to show you how the new covering looks.
Yesterday I flew it for the first time, I had just replaced all the plastic clevis connectors with metal ones and as soon as I got in the air I lost control of the throttle, I flew it around at full throttle till I ran out of fuel and made a good dead stick landing.
Upon investigation I found that the clevis connector and the push rod were no longer connected the threads on the clevis connector just slid over the threads. I grabbed a new clevis connector and it seemed to thread on tight so I replaced it thinking I must have a bad connector.
Tonight I went back up, was doing loops, rolls if you want to call them that and I even did a bit of inverted flight. I was having a ball.
After 10 minutes I decided to do a couple of approaches, on the first one a throttled down and did a nice low fly by and gave it throttle to come around again. All of a sudden it went full throttle again with no throttle again. I took it up high to run it out of gas and do a dead stick. I finally ran out of fuel and started to bring it around. I'm not sure what happened but somehow I became disoriented. By the time I figured out were I was I was to low to bring it back so I turned it away from any possible neighbors and steered for the field across the street. Only problem is before I could try a long distance landing I lost it behind some trees. It ended up smack dab in the middle of a 400 acre field. At least it was a good job of getting away from the neighbors. Damn long walk though.
Again the clevis connector disconnected from the push rod. I checked it and clevis connector just slid in over the treads. About this time I am thinking I am raising some holy hell with the LHS and the manufacturer clevis connectors .
Just for giggles I tried putting the bad clevis connector on a new push rod, it threaded on nice and tight.[:'(] I don't know what to think now, other than I will replace the push rod and go back to plastic clevis connectors on the throttle

Damage, ouch. costly![:@][:@]
Looks like I lost the receiver and a servo. the needle valve on the Evolution is broke. The plane looks like a easy fix, I'll need a new firewall as that shattered.
Stick around for my next new way of crashing.[:@]