Major,

Your thoughts coincide with mine; if I can see it on the bench I don't want it on the plane. I thought about side mounting servos on the Javelin but the fuse is really too narrow unless you make gross adjustments in servo location to avoid interference between the two servos. On the other hand, it would be nice if more models simply designed the servo installation such that the servo axis was parallel with the control surface axis- thereby eliminating all this playing around. The non-linearity of the control movement is a given in all our models until you start playing around with a pull-pull system with pulley/wheel attach points that maintain a constant radius for pay-out of the cable- but that's a whole other breed of cat.

At what point is bashing an ARF a diminishing return vs. just building kit? That's the question I always struggle with and always seem to come up with a different answer depending on what I'm working on. Still this whole issue of differential in the elevator halves is probably a second or third order problem (this being the opinion of wiser person than me and my feeling, too). Regardless, the imprecise nature of the split pushrod systems "offends" me...