Rickstubbz....you're back! Glad to hear you got another. Just slap this one together and fly the snot out of er!
I have been stopping back in periodically like you just did... I had one of the first of these at the 100+ member club and get a lot of questions so I like to keep current. Besides, when a thread gets this long, a lot of old issues resurface so I can point them to stuff that you, maynardrupp, cmoulder etc. shared back in 2009. Good to hear from you. And I am glad to hear that your son is still flying his.
No doubt that is why you got the itch to buy another one! Cheers and wheels down, buddy. I hope that some of the beatiful art that you did back in 2009 is transferrable to the new plane, like maybe the tailfeathers made it OK? I remember the checkered patterns that you had like the old Uproar scheme looke awesome. I only wish I had such covering skills. If you are going to mod this next one, consider the TNT carbon tube I just referred Ameyam to above. It would cost $43 and save 1.5 oz. I am not certain that it would slide in, but you could check that out with TNT. The aluminum tube on my kit/plane is dead on .750", ±0.002" due to out of roundness per my micrometer.

Ameyam, glad to hear you found some low hanging fruit on your wing jinking. Too bad about the stupid horse racing....!