On her short maiden flight she lifted off beautifully with little trim required. I made two passes before the elevator came off. she also taxied very well with the steerable skid. The plane obviously was lost, but the engine was also completely destroyed. Post crash examination showed that every hinge in all control surfaces had popped out. They were glued with a glob of some brown stuff. A closer examination showed this plane may have been older than thought. Things like the cotter pins in wheel axles were rusted. For a plane that had never flown this indicates a lot of hanger time. Maybe the glue just dried out, don't know. I should have been more leery of this planes flight worthyness, but it looked so good. During setup and ground testing I had two pull-pull cables come loose (replaced whole thing), two hinges come loose (repaired and checked all poorly-obviously), and had one exhaust stack fall off. But it is hard to tell just how good or bad a finished plane is put together. It was fun; I guess the search begins again; I don't think i'll find another plane like this one was for $900 though.