Hi all,

No offense taken

The antenna was out and it was the 5th flight of the day so the ailerons were connected properly....

(But I will doublecheck the receiver and connections, batteries were fully charged b4 going to the field and it is computer TX, so no 'reverse' buttons to bump.... Thanks for the suggestions!)

Someone said that the hinges should be really difficult to remove, that's what I thought as well, but it turned out I could get them out fairly easily (no damage to the wing taking them out and I could see that the CA was certainly not covering the entire hinge, far from it). This made me veeery suspicious.

I'm not rulling out a complete hand/eye coordination blackout on my part, and as I am a beginner mistakes are made. I'd be the very first to admit if I screwed up. There was virtually no wind this day, 5th takeoff that day whereby the previous ones went flawlessly...

What I'm thinking is that one aileron came loose and caused an unexpected turn to which my reactions were probably not what they should have been due to sheer surprise (and did I mention inexperience?).

Anyway, we will never know the full truth I suppose but I for one am not taking risks with the hinges anymore....

Also I've read the hinge-how-to on RCU but only after I built my plane, at which point I didn't want to mess with them anymore.

Oh well.....

Johan