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Old 07-08-2003 | 12:20 AM
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Default RE: U-Can-Do 3d 46?

It was the servo arm. It was just broke ... maybe brittle?? I don't remember what I was doing because I did not notice that it broke suddenly. I was doing some fast blenders during the flight. I noticed when I was doing some rolls ... they were not as fast as usual ... but definatley fast enough to keep my flying. I was just thinking that maybe my dual rates on the ailerons were just really set low. I have lost an aileron before an it is EASILY noticeable on say a GP Extra 40. Honestly ... I flew it 3D for over 5 minutes ... landed ... and never even thought that a servo was completely out on the aileron. It just goes to show you what oversized ailerons can do for such a light plane. Like Morbid said .. maybe I would have lost the aileron altogether ... but still would have landed no problem. I have no fear again of losing an aileron on this UCANDO.

I did however lose one of my elevator servos on one of my many crashed 60 UCANDO's. One was not enough as the other was "stuck" in down position rendering the other one useless. Had it been a broken horn or whatever else, it would have just flapped in the wind and the other elevator servo to the rescue. Not in this case.