Interesting analysis there Dick. Obviously there's some room for fudging how the pilot flies the model in the maneuvers but there's no cheating the stall speed. The trick is to fly a light model with minimal control inputs so that the model is smooth and slow to respond. This can give the impression of a big heavy model but while it's flying at the more scale like speed that can only come with super light wingloadings. Sailplane pilots are often good at this since they've learned that pushing the controls around just causes drag so they tend to just breath on the sticks and wait patiently for the model to SLOOOOOOOOWLY respond with course changes. Of course all that goes out the window when they find a thermal but the rest of the time it's all about smooth.

Ustik, thanks for the link. Yeah, the flying speed of the model definetly confirms all we've discussed here in this thread. While it appears to be a nice flying model it's far, far too fast from a scale looking flight perspective. And it seems like he's definetly landing it hot. Likely to avoid the issues you mentioned.