I won't address the service issue, that has been more than covered here. What I would like to address is a possible explanation for some of you who have had a "lock-up" problem that eventually led to a crash. Won't recover the lost planes, but may save a future one.

I have an Easy Fly 40 that after a sharp left aileron turn refused to straighten out. In my panic to recover the situation (I was heading toward the flight line and losing altitude!) , I moved both sticks around wildly and by some miracle I regained control.

After landing the plane, I examined the plane to see what was wrong. Long story short, the "z" bend I put in the aileron control rod that connected to the aileron servo was getting stuck under the throttle servo control arm. This took the right combination of throttle and aileron, but I could get it to happen every single time I tried.

I believe this was happening the aileron servo mounts fairly "high" in the wing and just behind where the throttle servo arm is located. Shortening the z-bend in the aileron control rod and shifting the throttle servo over resolved the problem and it never reappeared.

BTW, you may notice in my profile that the plane has been "retired", but that is only because the ratio of clear packing tape to ultracote is a tad higher than I like (there is such as thing as being too "ratty"), and it is awaiting recovering or sale.