I flew out at the RAMS field [link=http://www.ramsrc.com](RAMS Website)[/link] for the second time last night. I took my trainer with me as I was going to put my 5 year old son on the buddy box for the first time. They have more open space than Hobby Park, where you takeoff, climb, and then fly over the trees the whole time. I put the plane and transmitter on the fast field charger and wait for someone to show up with a key to the shed so I could borrow their buddy cord. Everything was charged up so I decided to fly it myself while I put my Ultra Stick 40 on charge.

Right after takeoff, the plane turns to the left. I put full right aileron in and it was almost flying straight. I trimmed the ailerons all the way to the right and let the stick return to center and it still would turn to the left. The guy standing beside me heard me say "What the h*** is going on?" He told me to gain altitude while he brought his plane in. About that time I remembered that I had a rudder to use! I gained altitude, then he took the transmitter from me and landed it as pretty as you can please. On the ground we realized that the ailerons hardly moved at all. I thought I just had the wrong model set in my 6TXA. But when I removed the wing, I found that the wood had split that the servo attaches to. It was not where the wood pieces were originally glued to the wing, it was a little past that on the little wood pieces.

My son was upset because he still has not gotten on the buddy box. But I told him that it was better that we had a plane to take home that would only take a few minutes to fix rather than have a box of balsa pieces because of a crash. He was at the field the first time I crashed (my original trainer that got caught by the trees at Hobby Park. Those trees have balsa magnets in them!) and saw how upset I got. That crash upset him also. So he understood why I was waiting to fix the plane.

I think that I will wait for a nice Sunday afternoon to put him on the buddy box.

A lucky escape & good thing that you had some help. Did you do a control function check before take-off?

I did check to make sure I didn't have any control reversal, as I keep forgetting to put tape on the back of my transmitter to put which model # is which. That is the only thing that I don't like about the 6TXA. Models are numbered 1 - 6. Right now I have 4 models programmed and by the end of winter I should have all 6 filled. I will admit that I did not tug on the servo before I attached the wing. I guess I just figured out something else to preflight

I had the same thing happen to my Avistar. The wood bracing on the wing servo mount separated in the middle of the balsa wood and the servo was only hanging by the push rods. It was an easy fix, and I was very lucky that it happened on take off. I happened to take off very soon after I started and had plenty of runway left. The plane would only turn gradually to the right with no left at all. All I could do was pull back to idle and the plane made a sweeping turn and landed in our grassy area at our field. Just bent the landing gear a little. If I build a wing now with a single servo in the middle, I try to use basswood for the servo support so it doesn't happen again. Sounds like we were both lucky.