fatman....

I never said the plane is garbage
It has quite a few very good qualities

1...excellent quality ...if you spend some time on it you can make it look quite good.
2....it is so well built that you could probably fly it forever without fatiguing the structure.




the problems with this plane are

1...during slow flight it has a tendency to drop a wing and snap,

the slower you go, the worse the problem.

other acrobatic planes will also snap when slowed ...some designs more than others but this cap is by far the worse of the bunch in this area!

So you might say...well I won't fly it too slow...you could do that...and that would probably work ( as long as you keep the speed up a little when landing)

It is my opinion that acrobatic planes must, at times, be flown very slow to give a true scale-like appearance. Because of this, combined with the planes tendency to snap at slow speed, I would not choose this plane!

I wish there were forums before I purchased my cap 21 and someone would have warned me

I flew mine without knowing what I now know!(and you)
It seemed to me at the time that every once and a while I was getting radio interference....I did not know it was the plane starting to snap! eventually it snapped and hit the ground ....ouch
After the plane crashed, I learned by asking around that the radio interference I thought I was getting was actually the plane beginning to snap!
I was faced with the following dilemma
1....rebuild it
2...forget it

it was not damaged too badly but it would have taken some work....not as much work as building it in the first place though!

I reasoned that I could spend almost no money and 3 weeks fixing it...or....forget it !

even though I could have fixed it for free, I chose to move on because after 3 weeks of work ...I would still have the problems that are inherent in this design!

I spent 4 months building from kit a different plane! And of course it was more expensive than fixing the cap 21 !!

I would truly have tried to help you with the stab/elevator problem that you originally asked about ...but I just could not remember!
The only thing I can recall about the construction was a little about the wooden cowl and how I attached it to the fuse! but even that is a bit fuzzy