Hey Matt,

I like Jacks silicone Ideas for sure, but I am a screw the canopy on kind of guy, It all started when every time I glued on the canopy the vapors would fog up the windshield, (now they make a good glue for the canopy I guess, I never tried it) one time I even remembered to put vasoline on the plastic, as not to get the vapor look, glued her on, and then realized I now couldn't get the vasoline wiped off,,, Talk about being a nit wit.. so from that point on, 4 screws hold all my canopies on and will forever.

I have built up the back behind the wing with just extra plywood bracing and much epoxy, as a matter of fact the Twist broke in its usual spot behind the wing in my last crash but not where any of the bracing was, its almost rebuilt right now, and the new needle valve will hopefully be here today or tomorrow, the first time I came in for a rough landing and ripped the landing gear off, (which I didn't really believe was that rough of a landing) I also braced and epoxied that landing gear block in, needless to say my last nose in crash didn't bother that at all, however my firewall was pushed in and I lost the left side of the most forward part of the plane, she will be air born this Saturday though, things are looking good, I was even able to save the pinstriping and had some extra yellow monocote laying around, the Twist almost looks like its Brand new out of the box again..

As far as screws in the danger zone I just run a nice bead of epoxy around the whole inside of the airframe where all the joints meet, I needed the extra weight for the balance on the OS .70 anyway, the screw holes have never been a weak point in any plane I've ever had so far, Maybe I have been lucky,, My canopies have shattered before but the holes have never been an issue or where the breaks have occurred.

Thanks Bluemax that sounds like a pretty good deal actually, And by the time I get that kind of money to spend on a sim program It'll probably be yesterdays news and Cheaper then I'll grab it for sure.

And oil on the servo just keeps her smooth.... That last line might be BS..... but it doesn't bother me at all. its never been a problem for me anyway. definitely keep it off the connectors as TimC said..

Later kids[8D]