I have such mixed feelings on the Swift so far. It was a lot of fun to build, and the trim was great, very nice glides when testing. But then I started getting cute and worrying about its appearance. While sanding the primer I snapped apart one of the wing tips. It was right at the joint, so easy enough to fix.
I finished the paint job and put it away waiting for an opportunity to fly, probably at a club launch on the 20th. But then Saturday afternoon I thought to myself, "you really didn't check the trim after painting, and there is more surface area in the tail for the paint to have added weight..." So I decided another toss or two to check trim was in order. On the plus side, it was good that I did the testing, as there was apparently a little too much tail weight for flying into a breeze, the nose went up and it stalled. Now I know to make an adjustment. The bad part was that with all of that wide open grass where I was tossing it, it decided to nose dive onto the relatively thin sliver of the cart path. The main wing snapped off in the middle, and snapped apart.
I do have it back together again, and this time, appearance be damned, the joints are loaded up with extra glue...screw smoothing out the fillets, I left those suckers nice and thick.
Now when I first finished it, I had originally thought of adding some wing weight and doing more trim tests trying to get it to glide in nice circles on the way down. But not any more. This thing is sitting in storage until the club launch, and if it glides out of sight because I didn't put any wing weight on it, so be it. I'll just have to make sure I capture it's flight on video.