The aileron throws are another thing I worked on. I found that the torsion bar link was bottoming out way befor the aileron reached full travel. I used an xacto knife and lengthened the slot that the arms came through. That gave me another 1/4" throw in the down direction. A while later, I was having jerky response on the ailerons and discovered that the torsion links were slopping around in the wing and I would use up 15 degrees or so of servo movement before the aileron would start to respond. At this point, I changed over to two servos, one in each wing. I used a jewelers saw and with a fine hole next to the torsion rod bend where it left the wing, I cut the rod off. I was then able to pull the end out by removing the aileron and then pulling out the rod. I made a servo box in each wing.

I ran each wing off it's own channel to get a bit better tunning on the ailerons. I could have gone flaperons but there isn't really a need. This is the best mod I did. It smoothed out the ailerons and overall the flying of the plane. The first photos are of the mod on the half wing that I have left. The last is what the finished linkage looks like on the replacement wing I built.

I got to fly a bit this morning before the wind came up and blew us away. I about wiped out again. I was trying to do the left roll and the plane got a little out of sorts and when I pulled it out, it came over the pits, but high. I lost sight of it turnning and when I found it, I had made a U turn and lost almost all the elevation I had. I came back over the pits at about 10 ft elevation. I pulled it up and then went dead stick and managed to get it back on the runway with no problems. While I was refueling, and getting my nerves calmed down, the wind came up so I packed it in and called is a day. Lots to think about re-hashing today.

Don