Tony,
yeah, i've never had much success with flying wings, closest was the plank style wing or the stryker, but neither of those are true wings. 3 channels would certainly help, in probably any given situation, but especially here, or on the canard. bummer about your laptop, i dont even have my own computer set up yet so i dont have any of my files or links. its kinda frustrating, but probably not as much as a formatting job, every time i format, i seem to forget to save at least one important thing. last time i did it, i forgot to make a hard copy of the 1200+ guitar tabs i'd compiled over the years...i lost every single one of them![:@]

neurotex,
yeah the twin wing is an usual design, the anihedral on the bottom wing tips is very odd as well. nice flying pics of the strato streak, i like the tail feathers on it, looks kind of star wars-esque! as for how many planes i have? i dont even know, when i was moving out of my house this past week, i realized i had WAY more boxes of RC stuff compared to normal house hold boxes. i think i had at least two medium size boxes full of empty airframes and one with planes that actually had equipment installed. i really need to thin it out some! fortunately, i'm pretty rough with my planes, so a lot of them dont survive very long. if they did, i'd be drowning in balsa thats one
of the benifits of doing the micro thing, i can fit a bunch of planes in just one box. i dont know how the large-scale guys do it.

Tim,
usually, heavy means faster, and more wind penitration, however with extra weight comes extra inertia which would cut down on manuverability. this isnt always the case though, of course. as neurotex mentioned, the lighter they are, the easier the wind can take it away. the way around this would be to remove some of the incidence in the wing so it just doesnt have quite the same amount of lift, but a strong gust of wind can still send a light plane tumbling. just to complicate it a bit more, if its lighter, its usually more manuverable, which can help get you out of sticky situations, but again, the wind will still cause more havoc to a lighter plane than a heavier one - usually (lots of variables that could change that, especially incidence angles, thrust angles, and as neurotex also mentioned, wing design).

nick