pumbadog, I agree and I thing we have another convert as of Sunday. One of the guys, a very experienced flyer, came out with a new Slow Poke. He almost never got it to the ground in one piece after some not to smooth move, when he came in for the landing, he couldn't keep it lined up with the runway, the plane was making 90 degree turns on him. Finally he got it close to the ground at 90 degrees to the runway and ended up hitting the brem at the fence. Three of the four aileron hinges had pulled out on the left wing. They were soaked with CA and hard as a rock, but not a scrap of balsa was to be seen on them.

I've seen this to many times. I've yet to see a pinned hinge fail unless the aileron was torn of in a crash, and then there was gobs of balsa still attached.

My bet is our guy was busy installing pined hinges when he got home.

Don