Well, I sure didn't think I would be the first victim to be put on display here, but here I am.  It has been over a year since I've had a serious crash.  I built this SIG Wonder last spring and have been having a blast with it whenever I've been able to fly it.  It has easily been the hottest plane I've ever built or flown, and my favorite.  Until now.  I had just finished flying my trainer with a student and switched to this plane without changing the model program on my Futaba programmable transmitter, AND for some reason, I didn't do my normal preflight check.  If I had, I would have noticed the reversed aileron operation.  The rest is the classical "Reversed Aileron Crash" scenario; take-off (or hand launch in this case), steady climb for a few seconds, sharp roll to either side (to the right this time), stall, straight in crash with full power.  It all happened so fast I could barely reconstruct what happened.  I had no idea what caused the crash until later when I went back to the trainer, tried to change the model program on the transmitter and found myself changing out of the trainer and into the Wonder. Oops!
 

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