As some of you know I am now flying an Envision. I have my Valiant, ready to fly, and I will still be around to answer whatever questions you have about it. Granted, you have a much better person to ask... the designer Bryan Hebert, but if there is anything that I can help with, let me know. I wish I had flown the Valiant at the last Worlds as now I have a perfectly good airplane sitting on my shelf. Once I figured out (was told) that I went backwards on the CG, and Bryan told me were to balance it at, snaps became predictable, spins and stall turns were cake and anything rolling felt much more locked on. But the Envision is my first design and is flying good as well, so I will be flying it this season.

I have been keeping track of the thread and as far as aileron servos, I personally think that 9650's are too small for the ailerons on any 2M pattern plane, even on electric. Back in 03 at the Poland Worlds, we (our electric team) put together 2 Rhapsody's. One had 9650's on the ailerons, the other 9151's (9551/BL551's weren't around then). The one with the 9151's hands down snapped much better than the one with 9650's. And the ailerons on the Rhapsody weren't as big as the Valiant ailerons. Sorry to see what happened Steve. I'm in love with the BLS551's as the aileron servo of choice (I didn't have any BLS551's when my Valiant was put together).

What did the pushrod set-up look like (from a top view like the pic)? Maybe there was some weird angle that didn't help things either.