I'm sure I'm too late responding to your question, but on my first flight I had very moderate throws on all surfaces (except the rudder). I went with about 1 inch on airlerons and elevator. As I quickly found out, it will take much more. I never had any problems snapping this plane due to too much elevator. After the first flight, I maxxed out all throws and never looked back. I still have the plane but this weekend will be the last time I fly it before I give it to a friend of mine. I'm using a Saito 82 with an APC 14x4W. I've also used a 13x8, just to see how fast I could fly it and how much it could take. I never did a full throttle dive, but I would often fly it full throttle to try to race some of the tiger sticks out there. Obviously I was no competition for them, but it would fly quite fast and performs pattern-type moves very well.

As far as 3D'ing the thing goes, it will do very well when a pilot of greater ability than me flies it. I've always had a hard time even hovering it, but that's just me. Once I got my UCD, I flew the Twister less and less because the UCD is so much easier to 3D for a novice like me.

Gary