I about lost my 4*60 due to a short antenna. I was flying way to far out and I happeded to look down and see I had forgoten to extend my TX antenna. How I about lost the plane was not loss of signal from the TX, but loss of signal from the brain to the TX. In the panic of trying to yank out the antenna, I put the plane into a dive, but luckly, I was high enough that I managed to pull it out OK.

I doubt that the slight fold at the end of the tube as MinFlyer suggest is going to cause any radio issues until the plane is to far away to be seen anyway. I had run the tube out the side of the fuselage just below the elevator pushrod exit and trimmed the tubing smooth to the side. I just pulled the wire out as far as it would go. I only had about 3 to 4 inches waving in the breeze. Since that plane, I'm doing just what MinFlyer suggest. Works well.

Don