Try the DRI, the Red Pig

Somebody built this cartoon scale DR1.
Purportedly, the plans are from the internet.
Chris 'bought' this red model from the builder, at a price so cheap, you know it is a 'give-away', awaiting better home.
Well, Chris fitted his motor, esc and servos and was seen flying it infrequently. He did not like it, understandably so as the short coupled model ought to fly like a pig and cannot be expected to fly consistently, and I am now the owner of the red pig, when the model cannot be repaired anymore, I shall return the motor, esc and 2 servos to Chris.

I figured that the servo arms were awfully short, and this meant short surface horns to get the throws Chris wanted. The rudder horn was broken off the rudder, this is easily fixed with new horns with bigger gluing area. The main concern was the ailerons. Perhaps they worked fine when first built, but now they were too loose and the wire aileron linkages have lots of play. The original aileron servo operates via two push pull wire, attached/hinged to the wire aileron horns with heat-shrink tubing and the 1.5-2mm wire aileron horns runs in 3mm plastic tubing.

This is meant to be a quickie, so I glued on two Hitec HS55 servos for aileron control, bypassing the original linkages. I figured that there is a huge amount of wing area, additional 10gm and drag is nothing in this pig.

I got the model out yesterday, but the wind was too strong for flight trimming. Then at one point, I geared myself to try, but found the rudder horn broke loose. It was no go and I had to retire the pig home. It is fixed subsequently, with globs of epoxy.

The red nose is a discard of a Mig 15, it fits and I think it is good to stay.
If I got the model trimmed out and flying, I think a pig head figurine would look good on this model. And to cover up the two blue servos on top of the wing, how about two big cannon?

Update 1

Over Christmas and New Year period, I have been flying the DRI for maybe 10 times now.
It's like a box, it flies straight and is very stable.
Flying inverted is stable.
The rudder is very effective but I couldn't do nice enough knife-edges.
Rolling circles are ok, in a fashion.
The cowling (without the red nose) is very big and therefore draggy.
The airspeed range is relatively small due to the high drag layout.
I used a 10x4.7" prop and it could almost hover, which means it couldn't.
Yesterday, one of the motor's wire broke from its bullet connector.

Update 2

I soldered back the bullet connector but it does not work. I tried another ESC but the motor would not spin and came to conclude that the motor is damaged. Perhaps I would replace the motor with the FSD motor I used in the Katana. The model would likely be able to fly straight up.