Sad to report that my beloved Hog Bipe has expired []
It was almost one year to the day that it first took to the air.
It had being flying along nicely doing its Hog Bipe tricks, I had mostly been trying to learn how to hold a straight knife edge. But at the time of expiration it was in an inverted spin with everything functioning normally. With plenty of altitude left the sticks were returned to netural and the spin stopped. As normal, the plane was headed straight down with some power applied. I checked for wing orientation (I don't like to level out coming towards the runway) and orientation looked good. I pulled back on the elevator and had no elevator. Looked down at the TX to make sure I was not crazy, and looked back at the plane still headed straight down. Bounced the elevator a couple more times and had nothing it was at this point that mother earth claimed her prize.
Even though I had plenty of time to check the other controls it did not occur to me to try them, so I don't know if it was only the elevator or if it was all controls that were lost.
The plane is a total loss, fuselage broken in half, lower wing broken at the root rib (wing tips both pointed forward), top wing mount ripped out of the wing ... it will be easier to build a new one than to try to fix this one.
Impact was so hard it broke the MPI LED charger jack out of its mounting hole so checking to see if anything worked at the moment was impossible.
Today with everyting removed from the carnage the RX and servos work, battery reads 4.5v - 4.6v loaded for several minutes with a Hobbico volt meter.
So once again failure analysis reveals no smoking gun.