Round the Pole Fliying

I have now reached a bit of an impasse. In the Cox flight contest, the "flying" was carried out using the NightHawk.
 

 
My reliance on Butyrate dope for fuel proofing combined with repaired repairs and a not insignificant flight time prompted me to replace this with the KK Radian.
 

 
This was completed last October and remained unflown until this weekend. It was built with the intention of stunting and being able to fly it slowly. I discovered during the course of the weekend that this will not be possible on my arrangement - I will go into this in more detail later.
 
However, the Cox Medallion/Hiscott combination is superb. It is an absolute **!!!!***** to set up, getting the compression right, sealing the silencer, sealing the needle ........ but as you will see - once done - starting is simple and the throttle control excellent. If you want to fly RC 049 then I would heartly recommend this combination.
 
It has now had over 12 hours running and still thrives!
 

 
Now I know that some of the pictures and videos are repeats but I am trying to bring this together.
 
I even applied Roddies idea
 
https://servimg.com/view/17712579/550
 
It works a treat!
 
However, after many hours this weekend - I reached some conclusions that I didn't like! I would welcome all comments.
 
First of all though - this is one (of many) flights
 

 
This is a sample of my efforts to set up for slow flying and trim the little beast. It is not all plain sailing (Do I mean flying?)
 

 
First of all. I was using this as a test bench for my revisit to control line flying.
 
The first part works. No need for a "stooge" - start it, walk away and then power up to launch.
 
The second doesn't. Flying slowly is not acheivable here. I have RC models that fly at walking pace. That was my aim but failed miserably. There were anomoloies though.
 
I found two things - throttling back and the model literally drops like a brick. I can't describe this as a glide.
 
To fly more slowly requires up elevator (now remember that this plane is trimmed by RC, has flaperons and a linked elevator - I have the advantage that this can be done "in flight"). This results in the plane flying nose up.
 
When I engaged "flaps" down, again a nose up attitude prevailed. The anomoly occurred by accident. Slower flight could be acheived by up elevator and then levelling out using up aileron. Weird but doable.
 
It also became apparent that level "hands off" flight was only acheivable at speed.
 
Stunting was not possible but this is due to the short lines and the turning circle needed. I have no doubt that this could be achieved with longer lines. You can also see in he videos that the lines never go slack and ther is quite a bit of pole bending going on.
 
I had originally thought of incorporating throttle control into control line but it would appear to me that the symetric profile lends itself to a "certain" speed. I should have realised this when flying KK's bigger RC brother
 
https://servimg.com/view/17712579/601
 
 
 
Built for speed with a symmetric profile. Only flew this twice - it was too fast for me and the park I RC in.
 
Anyway, bang goes my idea of slow controllable control line! Now you have seen what I would have entered in the Flight Contest - same engine from last year - you can breath a sigh of relief now that I have been banned!  
 
More thought required