stabilizer to the fuselage, I wanted to get the servo rails and pushrods installed. I had no problem adding the servo rails.  I just glued two small rails in place, but the pushrods were a different story. The pushrods were like very small Gold N Rods.  It was so small in fact, that I didn't have the proper hardware to work with it. I ended up changing the pushrods  to some that I had on hand.

straight back.  There's some drag on the prop, and that tends to make the wash behind it come off in a spiral fashion.  The problem comes when that spiral flow meets the rudder. If the rudder/fin is mounted high, the plane will turn (yaw) left because only the top part of the spiral hits it.  On a taildragger at rest, tail down, this may not be the case, and even the reverse may be true because the propwash must be mostly parallel to the ground.
P-Factor: Asymmetrical thrust is most apparent with taildraggers because it's mostly a function of the prop not being perpendicular to the oncoming airflow - but that can also happen with any plane when at a high angle of attack, like right AFTER takeoff. When the air is coming into the prop at an angle instead of square to it, one side of the prop operates at a higher angle of attack than the other, and the resultant thrust is no longer acting on the planes' centerline, but off to one side. That makes the plane want to turn. The usual case, nose high, gives a left turn.
Torque: Our props have a certain amount of drag - and
the torque (twisting force) the engine exerts on the air is, in opposite fashion, also exerted through the engine mount to the airplane. Since most all of our props turn to the right, that means there is a force trying to twist (roll) the airplane to the left. Note that this force is about the ROLL axis - the torque forces do not by themselves TURN or yaw the plane, as do the previous two effects. We automatically take care of this with ailerons in keeping the wings level, and it really doesn't take much force from the ailerons to do it. On the ground, all torque forces are countered by the wheels.
Gyroscopic effect: The weight of the fast-turning prop creates a gyroscope, which will resist any change in the direction of its rotating axis. This is easily overcome by the planes controls - but the more detectable gyroscopic effect comes AS THE DIRECTION IS CHANGING. As the planes direction is changing, as in a sudden pull-up, gyroscopic forces try to rotate the plane about an axis 90 degrees to the axis you're forcing it. In the example of a sudden pitch up, the gyro action from the prop will try to force the plane to turn (YAW) to the right. Don't believe it? Try it!  The next time you're holding your plane nose up at full power to check your mixture, rotate the plane sharply nose up and down. You'll feel the sideways pressure from this force. In flight, its almost negligible, except perhaps at near zero airspeed if you do a VERY quick stall turn or flopover.
So what is one to do? Answer- know what your planes characteristics are, and compensate - with THE RUDDER! Let's take an example; the Piper Cub, well known for its tendency to ground loop on take off. Here's what happens: you increase the throttle quickly, and immediately have to put in some right rudder to keep it from continue

The tail and elevator were glued to the fuselage.  The canopy was cut out, as was the cowl, both fit perfectly. Radio gear was installed, motor screwed in place, receiver added, and the speed control put in place. An eight cell pack was made up of 600AE cells with Sermos conectors.  Overall, the kit went together very easily, with most parts fitting very well. My finished weight, with batteries, is 24oz.
Timothy Specs: 59"wing span, 8.6 oz./sq.ft. wing loading, Speed 400 7.2v motor, 6x3 folding prop,  Eppler 205 airfoil, amp draw - 8.8 amps.

Prop Effects
by Clay Ramskill
via Loooop's & Lies , Editor Rich Ida
150 16th St. S., P.O. Box 1013
Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494
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Often as not, when our plane does something really weird, like a groundloop on takeoff, we say, "the torque got hold of it; there just wasn't anything I could do!". Even in magazine columns we see something like: "the engines torque was pulling me to the left, so I had to jab in some right rudder".
These folks are right in that the actions of the prop were the cause of the problem - and
wrong about the culprit being torque.
There are basically four "effects" from the action of the propeller; well, five if you count the thrust! They are: spiral propwash, asymmetric loading (p-factor), torque, and gyroscopic effects. We'll look at each of these in turn.
Spiral Propwash: The prop does not throw the prop-wash