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Old 11-12-2007 | 02:17 PM
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Default RE: AAHHH Crap! Pushrod troubles, please help..

Well it is funny that you are talking about this, I learned a lesson the hard way today. I was using those ez connectors on most of my control surfaces, had my first flight of the day, tested all controls before take off, flight was going fine, then I lost elevator control, I was lucky I was flying into 10 mph wind and had enough altitude, but the plane went in fairly steep, I thought that it would be totaled. When I found the plane it lost its main landing gear, the tail dragger gear and the tail fin broke off, nothing real major. When I tested the remote i could tell that the elevator was not working. When I inspected it the ez conector had come off the servo arm, it could have happened during the crash but I know that I did not have full control.

In the future and on this plane i am going to either use solder connectors or z bend.

Lesson learned

Jon