RE: What causes this?
I will take a look at the linkage tonite to see if there is anything obvious. My first instinct was linkage but I did buy a more powerful micro-servo from my LHS. It was only $25.00 so no harm done to my pocketbook if I don't use it. I will just put it in my spare servo box for future use.
I am trying to recall how I built it and what linkage I used from the servo to the elevator, but can't for the life of me remember... so I have to wait till I get home to see... but as Charlie P said, it does seem more and more likely that it's linkage.
Bruce, thanks for the link to the .PDF. Interesting reading and what he did was basically what I ended up doing, however, I needed two extra ounces of nose weight just to make it slightly more nose heavy to neutral than it was without the weights. But, it flys great other than the minor issues with loops. I will fix that and it will be a good flyer.
A little history, here, when I first got it built, I used one of those small GWS receivers (foamy type receivers) thinking that was just fine and lighter. Well, during a trim flight, and not watching the wind, which was right on my back, I didn't notice the plane moving further and further away from me until I had no rudder, then no aileron, then no elevator as I tried to turn it and get it headed back to me. I ended up throttling back (it responded to that but no more after that) as I watched it drop into the trees in the woods about 300 yards away. I found it about a half hour later.. on the ground.. only a broken prop. Wphew!!! I changed out the receiver for a standard Airtonics receiver and it's behaved itself ever since.
Thanks again, guys.
DS.