Hi DonM,

>>You won't believe this but I had a Byron Pitts, a very long time ago

Me too. In the late '70s. I had one of the first one's shipped. I sent them pictures of mine and they stole my color scheme for their ads....I was flattered. I had a Rossi 60/tuned pipe, with the byro-drive after dumping the low power gas motor I had in it. It actually flew really well until the pipe melted an elevator servo lead....styro-foam peanuts. Believe it or not, I gave the pieces to a friend and he glued it all back together and flew it for ages.

>>so IMHO standard servos will work for everything except maybe the rudder, I wouldn't do that again, but it proves a lot of what we do today is overkill.

I don't think I'll agree with you on this one. People today are generally doing a different type of flying than back then, also larger surfaces on the controls also make stronger servos a requirement. Personally I would go with the Hitec digitals 5925s(elevators and ailerons) and 5945s rudder. Definitely the best value out there on high-end servos.

Bill