ORIGINAL: MinnFlyer
You can apply aerodynamic theory and rhetoric all day long, but the bottom line is, how do YOU like the way your plane flies?
Case in point: I have built about six Ultra Sports since the early 90's. The plane is designed to have cap strips over the ribs. I have built the wing in the following configurations:
Cap Strips
Fully sheeted
Sheeted top, Cap Strips on bottom
And I built one "Lite" version where I went through painstaking measures to build it as light as possible.
The results: I like the way the fully-sheeted wing flew the best. I liked the "Lite" version the least (in fact, I gave the plane away after two flights)
With all due respect there MN, you only had 2 flights on it. IMO it was no where near being trimmed correctly and you made a rash decision. Had you hung onto it and took the time to correctly trim it you may have kept it. I have been competitivly flying aerobatics for almost 15 years and it takes me about 50 flights to get an airplane dialed in. Not because I am slow at it, to do it correctly thats just how long it takes on average.