Personal preference. I do suspect that it did strengthen the foam up a lot to have the second skin on it especially with as big of a motor as I had on it.

Second time around I am increasing the surface area of the controls. I want it to roll faster and on the last one it's demise was due to looping to low. If I had more throws/surface I would have been able to save it.

Now before anyone gets any bad notions on the plane stock, I did have the throws set to the suggested minimums for maiden. That is why I said I dumb thumbed it. Had I had more throw it never would have wrecked.

All in all it was a sweet plane once you figured out what to look at in the sky. Nothing bad, just different.