Yeah this version 2 might have better covering, that would be nice.The cowl is the exact color of the plane as far as I can tell.Which was suprising as most planes I have with cowls have such a different color it might as well not be for the plane.Nice to know about the high speed snap, that is the kind of thing that really bothers me.That is how my Extra would fly, I couldn't even do a loop unless it was gradual.But I did a loop with the Giles and had no problem, so the high speed stall isn't anything like that Extra.And I have heard that Giles do have a tendency to snap.
For my throws I just set them up to have the most throw you can get on them and then dial them in with the controller.That also reminds me, when I flew it I tried some knife edge and while it has more than enough rudder to do it, it has an interesting coupling effect.I am used to a plane always trying to roll the direction you add knife edge while at the same time having to counteract it pitch to one side, but this thing suprised me when it tucked in the other way causing the plane to want to go inverted.Do you use any mixing for knife edge?I think I am going to try to do some mixing so I don't get confused and end up losing the plane becuase it would be alot of fun to do some low high alpha knife edges.

As far as the E/Z connectors go I have used them in just about all my planes (about 26 of them so far, yeah this hobby is addicting!) and I haven't had one fail yet.Clevises on the other hand I have seen break plenty of times, but luckily nothing that caused a crash.