da Rock, your right it did require 4-5 clicks of down trim on the first flight yesterday to get in trim. After coming down, I noted the elevator was down slightly so the bolts were eased just slightly to line up the fairing with the under pan and two clicks of up were put back. At that point it took off beautiful with just a little up elevator needed to lift off.

You are of course absolutely right about the importance of the stability of the wing and I can see that these forward bolts are not ideal (other than dialing in the wing incidence for best flight characteristics) but the wing really seats well into the larger portion of the wing saddle with a slight space forward. The bolts were very snug in both instances when flying. I expect the difference was about 1/8 inch, which is really surprising to me that elevator authority would vary that much with such little difference in incidence angle. 1/8 inch in the 14.5 inches of chord is not much angular incidence change. I''m left to think that the additional tightening warped the wing a bit.

At any rate, once it is dialed in I will lay some silicone on the forward sections of the wing fairings were the slight gap existed and wax paper the wing where contact is made to firm it all up a bit. It is also unlikely that this plane will get a lot of flight time, at least from me for several reasons. I''m spoiled by gas and don''t like cleaning up after a .60 size glow engine any more, plus I''ve grown fond of a little larger plane than this and those lighter loaded and finally, this thing is silver and too frigging hard for old eyes to see except in the best of sky conditions and it is too fast and goes out too far. This plane was given to me 25 years ago and I took pity on it and decided it deserved to fly... and it has.

Here is the plane and I just noted that one can see the slight gap forward on the fairing.

http://pages.suddenlink.net/arlyn/P0002824.JPG