SnowDog
Moderator
I have a few things that may help/hinder you a little.
I have flown my foot pretty hard, and a few things I noticed was the elevator joiner failed. Actualy split away with part of the elevator attached to it. I reglued it with some heated 30 minute epoxy so it would penetrate the cracks and splinters real good. before that happened I had 3 of the 6 elevator hinges fail. I hadn't done any tail dragging, or tail touches. My door blew off, as a result of a single latch up front. I was going to replace the CA hinges with some pinned hinges, but haven't bothered yet. Someone said something about cutting some holes in the fuse or leaving a few windows out to counter the vaccum effect, but door or no door makes no difference to me. It is one less thing to bugger with when i am putting my wings on.
I run my flaps at near full diflection most of the time, and I haven't had any issues with the hinges or control horn like others have had. Time will tell on that I guess.
Thanks for the info. I'll keep an eye on the elevator joiner and hinges!
Regarding the flaps: what is "nearly full deflection" for you? 70 degrees? 90 degrees?
Finally, regarding the door being blown off...are you running electric or gas? And if electric, do you have a vent in the bottom of the fuselage?