On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 4:55:22 PM UTC+2, JJ Sinclair wrote:
Remember the Ventus driver who slid the elevator in place and was just about to secure it with the little red knob, when he got a phone call (before cell phones), went to the office and answered the phone. Came back, jumped in and towed off! Elevator flipped up at something like 500 feet....................He is no longer with us!

Then there was the Genesis driver who slid the elevator on and couldn't secure it because he had given the little red knob to his wife so she could start putting water in the wings. Figured he would get it later...................He got it about 30 minutes later when the elevator fell off on the runway! Could have survived that, but he never heard the line boy calling RELEASE RELEASE RELEASE, because he was on the wrong frequency!

Rush.....Rush......Rush = Dead.....Dead.....Dead

JJ

JJ,
These cautionary tales are all good and true, but if you are answering my post, I am only arguing the technical side of why *on an ASW-20* the tail would stay on if the bolt is forgotten.
FWIW, there is an optional TN to add a little O-ring to the bolt so that it stays on the elevator when di-rigged, and sticks out visibly if, when rigged, it is not screwed in. This calls for machining the bolt, arguably weakening it...probably not a good idea were it not that it is not meant to take any vertical forces. (here is a link to it: http://www.alexander-schleicher.de/t...enbolzen_E.pdf ).

Uri