[Chris Mc]

I built this DH88 and both retracts were copletlely dead as advised by Chris. Easily replaced with some spare ones I had. Had to cut the thin aileron hinges and used pin/elbow type to hinge them up properly and removed the big chunky weight they had in the nose I all fit a lipo heavy enough to compensate. Tested on the bench and all worked well ready for maiden.
Maidened it today and take off was good at half throttle and it needed a few clicks up. It surprised me by flying really well at half speed. No sign of tips tall and it was tracking really well. I did a few passes at different speeds the plane looks so goog in the air and quite fast. I did a low pass and pulled up vertically did a stall turn opened her up at full throttle headed back towards us and wow she is fast,... then tried to turn in back over the strip but something went wrong
The plane didn't respond to right aeloron and shot past over my head back towards the people and car park... I turned quickly and pulled up elevator and tried to turn right but the plane spun inverted over the spectators left the elevator up to stop it from flying further away but ailerons would not respond correctly so it spun into the ground at full speed
Took the plane home in pieces and started to put the jig saw back together... found the right aileron servo was dead and that caused the failure in the air.
The plane is scarred now but it will fly again.

Sorry to hear of your mishap George. Glad you were impressed when it was flying correctly before it met with disaster.
I understood after I bought it that it was beyond my flying capabilities, hence why I sold it off. With your experience, and a touch of glue, Im certain it wont be long till its back in the air.