gphil I don't like rubber bands either but for the ARF designer they are fast and easy. You can convert most planes to a bolt on wing by cutting through the bottom sheeting and adding a couple of pieces of plywood epoxyed to the spar and the leading edge and then drilling for a hold down dowl to go through the forward bulkhead. Then add and bolt hold down plate at the rear of thefuselage and drill through the rear edge of the wing and add bolts. This assumes you are an experienced builder and since we are talking about an ARF I am guessing you are a newbe with little building experience. If thats the case stick to the rubber bands. My newest plane has a rubber band on wing because it was fast and simple. Plus this will be a beater plane that will be flown close to the ground and having a pop off wing is a plus. Here are a couple of pics of the plane.

This is a coroplast plastic plane called a S.P.A.D. There is a section here dealing with these planes if you have never heard of them.

Well once again RCU will not let me load a photo. Maybe later.

Here is a link to the SPAD forum and my newest plane.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_11094335/tm.htm