Finished my ST a few weeks ago and have about a dozen flights on it. Gotta be honest I wasn't too impressed "out of the box". The plane was perhaps the crookedest thing I've ever flown. After looking through the thread it looks as though I have a collection of issues that have been found with the "kit". With that being said I've been working through the trimming and setup process and it looks like this will be a fun throw around plane which is why I bought it in the first place. Even with it being on the heavy side (see below) it has unlimited vertical and will hover at 1/2 throttle. Although it won't rocket out of a hover it seems to have plently of power to recover (I'm also flying at 5000 ft). I will be moving the CG further back to stabilize torque rolls as it tends to "fall over" making it a bit of a hand full and reduce the amount of down needed when inverted. It also doesn't flat spin or snap very well due to the more forward CG and it has a bad tendency to snap to the right when doing walls, regardless of the entry speed and despite elevator throws being matched. Rocks a little in harriers, elevators, etc. but nothing too bad. But...on high rates I've never seen anything roll as fast and knife edge with the SFG's in place is a blast!!

Issues encountered:
Wing incidence off by 1.5 degrees (rt wing on thrust line, left wing 1.5 positive) - redrilled and adjusted
Rt. wing has about an 1/8" bow in it (measured at about the middle of the wing) - just living with it
Ailerons severely warped, bowed and twisted (trailing edge looked like a drunk snake) - rebuilt both
Loose stab - epoxied in place
Junk tail wheel - replaced

I'd love to get ahold of the ST as a builders kit. Correcting others bulidng mistakes after the fact never is much fun.

Final Setup:
OS120 Surpass II w/ pump and stock muffler on 30% nitro
Great planes engine mount installed
17x4W APC and Tru Turn Spinner
14 oz. tank against wing tube
4 - Hitec 5625 w/ aluminaum arms
1 - Futaba S148 (throttle)
1 - Hitec 5645 mounted in tail w/ aluminum arms
1400 mah NiCd battery mounted behind canopy (chaning to 2000 NiMh)
Initially balanced (inverted) at recommended 7-7/16" from LE at fuselage
Sullivan tailwheel (stock litterally fell apart during installation)
Had to add 1.5 onces to the right wing tip to balance laterally!!!! Kind of odd with an inverted engine....
Finished weight 10lbs 2oz! Arrrggghhhh... Looking at published engine weights there is no way to get this plane to 8.5 lbs. Maybe they saved all of the heavy wood for this one or I should have used an .049 for power.
Control throws at recommended deflections and 75% expo.